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21Oct/10

Christmas comes early for online retailers

Online retailers should inaugurate gearing up for the Christmas period as the festive sales crest is set to come earlier than ever, according to a fresh study. Online Christmas sales are expected to be 16 per cent higher than final year with expected online sales of £6.4bn, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. [...]

21Oct/10

CSR: Next-generation broadband spend exceeds expectations

Chancellor George Osborne has announced in his Comprehensive Spending Review that rural broadband pilots will receive £530m over the next four years. The body of executive officers will trial superfast broadband in the Highlands, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Herefordshire. Malcolm Corbett, CEO of the Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA), afore~ that although the pilot areas [...]

20Oct/10

Net Neutrality and the BBC

It is remarkably easy to take the internet for granted. For many of us, it has become an integral part of our lives. It has transformed how we operate, communicate, access media, and contribute to debate. It’s only for the time of those rare moments when some technical hitch means that you be possible to’t [...]

19Oct/10

Reports warn of rise in cyber theats

Medium-sized companies meet ~ to ~ as great a risk of cyber attack as larger organisations, according to a of recent origin report from cyber security firm McAfee entitled The Security Paradox. The statement adds that smaller companies are less well able to defend themselves, because well as less able to sustain a serious loss [...]

17Oct/10

Changes to the Radio 4 messageboards

At lunchtime today I was interviewed forward the weekly Radio 4 programme Feedback for an item that covered latter changes to the design of the Radio 4 message boards. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio4/ After the forums were updated endure Wednesday afternoon, various threads were started by users upset with the changes and exclusive users emailed the programme frustrated [...]

16Oct/10

McAfee director warns of social networking perils

Social networking sites be favored with dramatically increased our vulnerability to cyber-crime, as McAfee demonstrated at its Focus 2010 conference in Las Vegas this week. Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee, explained that typical mass-emailed spam attacks occasion at a success rate of around one per cent. This step that only [...]

16Oct/10

Half of wireless networks can be hacked in less than five seconds

A study commissioned through life assistance company CPP reveals that across six UK cities closely 40,000 networks were at high risk from attack and could exist accessed in under five seconds. Using freely available software, CPP was able to identify unsecured wireless networks and concluded that almost a proper position of private networks had no [...]

9Oct/10

What's On BBC Red Button 9th – 22nd October

  Autumnwatch   New against 2010, this year Autumnwatch fans will be able to press red to scan our pick of Autumn nature photos taken by our audience. The images are selected ~ dint of. the Autumnwatch web team from photos the viewers have uploaded attached the Autumnwatch Flickr group. The Autumnwatch red button service [...]

9Oct/10

Liverpool web site uses NTT Europe to deal with traffic spikes

Although Liverpool Football Club’s current playing on the pitch might be in meltdown, its new web locality appears to be much more resilient. Pre-season the web site saw its previous traffic record of 65 million page hits smashed ~ the agency of more than 20 million, reaching over 85 million in July, due after Roy [...]

8Oct/10

Round Up Thursday 7 October 2010

According to the Daily Telegraph the BBC iPlayer is the “good in the highest degree catch-up service in the UK”. The research, which was carried wanting by Webcredible, a user experience consultancy, scored iPlayer 88 per cent in usability stakes, closely followed in sixtieth part of a minute place by STV Player, the Scottish TV [...]