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Bing Targets a Younger Crowd 25 Jun 2013 | 02:53 pm
“If you want to get customers hooked,” said every underhanded marketing man in every TV show or film ever, “you need to get them while they’re young.” And while that line would seem like a cliche if y...
Anonymous Search Engines on the Rise 24 Jun 2013 | 02:38 pm
If you’ve turned on the TV, opened a newspaper, or taken a look at Twitter over the past few weeks, you’ll have seen that people aren’t happy about Governments around the world monitoring their mobile...
Google Will Tackle Child Abuse, Won’t Pay More Tax 18 Jun 2013 | 02:49 pm
Recent months haven't the greatest for Google. First, MPs called the company to account over their tiny UK tax bills, and then a government committee (and Daily Mail campaign) sought to hold the searc...
OED Announces New Social Media Entries 17 Jun 2013 | 02:45 pm
Ten years ago, if you explained to someone that your tweets had generated dozens of followers, and helped you to crowdsource opinions for your new blog post, they'd probably have looked at you as if y...
Bing Gains Ground in May 14 Jun 2013 | 02:39 pm
The merry market share dance continued apace in May as all of the three major search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo) sought to capitalise on the small increases they made in April 2013. Continue Read...
Siri Snubs Google, Cosies Up to Bing 12 Jun 2013 | 02:40 pm
If you're an iPhone user, you've probably spent hours waxing lyrical to all your friends about Siri - the handset's built in personal assistant. Using an innovative voice search, Siri searches your ph...
Auditors Crash a Train into Rural Broadband Brags 11 Jun 2013 | 02:47 pm
While those of us in the cities are enjoying 4G through our mobile phones, connecting to the internet in rural areas is a far patchier prospect. So communities in the countryside have been hanging the...
HTC and Samsung in Twitter Slap-fight 10 Jun 2013 | 03:48 pm
The smartphone industry is a hive of backbiting, sniping and frequently legal action, as Google's Android OS battles for supremacy with Apple's iPhone product lines. But if you think all the antipathy...
4G Network to Expand, Ruin Television For All 7 Jun 2013 | 03:39 pm
As 4G connectivity is rolled out to more and more UK locations, mobile users are enjoying faster internet speeds than ever before. But while this development is great news for people who browse on the...
UK Government to Demand Blocking of Pornographic and Political Content 6 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
Google’s internet censorship index could have a new hotspot this year, if a move suggested by UK culture secretary in the wake of media pressure Maria Miller gets the go ahead. Various British papers ...
