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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]