7pm broadband rush hour sees speed drop ‘up to 69%’
Broadband speed drops by 69% in some parts of the UK during the evening internet ‘rush-hour’, according to a new study.
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7pm broadband rush hour sees speed drop 'up to 69%'
Broadband speed drops by 69% in some parts of the UK during the evening internet ‘rush-hour’, according to a new study.
BBC Children in Need Facebook app attempts to build the nation’s biggest digital cake
This year, BBC Children in Need is launching its very own Facebook app titled ‘Fancy a Spot of Cake’ to help raise money for the charity.
No Email Day: Now to Take it Off the Calendar
This Friday marks an unofficial ‘No Email day’, billed as a way to ‘be more productive with your time’. Sam Cece, CEO at StrongMail, agues why the aim of the day shouldn’t be to abolish email altogether, but to make sure we do it better.
Bad week for UK electrical retailers: Comet sold for just £2 as Best Buy closes UK stores
UK electrical retailer Comet has been sold for just £2 to a private equity firm, in the same week that US firm Best Buy announced it is to close all of its UK stores to focus on smaller shops.
EU privacy law: Just 1 in 10 think marketers can engage consumers without cookies
With the controversial EU online privacy law coming into full effect next year, marketers lack confidence in their ability to engage users online without tracking their behaviour via cookies.
70% of car dealers ‘prefer website leads to classifieds’
Most UK car dealers believe that leads from their website are stronger than those from classifieds, according to new research.
Guest comment: Does more commission equal more sales? (Part 1)
What levers can affiliate managers pull in order to increase sales? In this two-part article, Owen Hewitson, Client Strategist, Affiliate Window & buy.at, whether more commission to affiliate partners actually generates more sales within performance marketing.
Average Brit now ‘downloads 17GB of data a month’
Fixed broadband consumers in the UK now use an average of 17 gigabytes of data a month, the equivalent of streaming 12 hours of BBC iPlayer HD video or 11 movies a month, according to new research.
December 5th forecast to be biggest online shopping day
Web shoppers in the UK are set to spend the most on 5th December 2011, according to retailer Amazon.