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PayPal launches Fashion Window, a proposal to break down the barrier between virtual and real

PayPal, the company that specializes in payments on the Web, has launched a new technology that makes it possible to shop at physical stores using a mobile phone. This tool, called Fashion Window, makes...

MWC 2012: First phones to emerge

This year’s Mobile World Congress has just kicked off, so you can expect a deluge of new smartphones being announced this week. And here are the first handsets to get unveiled at MWC 2012. LG has officially...

PC sales down 20% in the UK

The UK market for PCs is looking decidedly rocky according to the latest figures from Gartner. The research firm, which doesn’t include media tablets in its PC stats as do some rivals, estimated a year-on-year...

23% of Europeans welcome touchscreen phones

In a survey of 2,000 European mobile users by Canlys, the analysis...

66% of the UK suffers from Nomophobia

Nomo-what-now? Here’s another new “phobia” which has been “discovered” along with all those ones documented in that book we saw being plugged a few years back on the TV. You know, stuff like...

Consumer Electronics Show - Las Vegas

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show begins tomorrow and runs through until Friday In Las Vegas We have taken a sneak peek at what upcoming technology you can expect to see revealed at the show. Broadly...

Collins Dictionary now online for free

Major publisher looks to online territory as the dictionary market changes Collins has taken the step of publishing its famous dictionary content online, the first time a dictionary from a major publisher...

The worst passwords of 2011 published

SplashData, a security app provider, has published its 2011 list for the “25 worst passwords of the year”. They found that whilst many people are aware of the need for strong passwords, others are...

240 million European consumers will shop online in the run-up to Christmas 2011

The new IMRWorld European e-Christmas Sales Forecast reveals for the first time how the internet is helping hard-pressed shoppers throughout Europe to cope with the tough economic conditions. IMRWorld,...

Google shuts down unpopular social products

Identity-hoarder Google has killed various social products that failed to capture the interweb's hive brain in the way it clearly thinks Google+ has done. As part of Larry Page's drive to make the Chocolate...

Amazon mulls smartphone plans

Things are moving fast at Amazon at the moment. The online retail giant appears to have set its sights firmly on the hardware world, with its own branded products pushing its shopping experience – and...

Nominet reveals .uk domain registration growth

Nominet have revealed that .uk domain registrations grew by 10.5% over the past twelve months, bringing the total to 9.7 million and keeping the UK in the number two spot for worldwide registrations. 81%...

Chinese Google hacking author pin-pointed

The Google hacking affair (which also involved a number of other Western companies) isn’t about to fade away quietly, especially not now, as US authorities think they’ve pin-pointed the author. And...

Internet giants join forces to stop SOPA

Legislation which appeases the movie industry and threatens to damage innovation on the net. Some of the biggest names on the internet have banded together to voice their concerns over the new bill currently...

TAX Amnesty for Portuguese and Foreigners

With immediate effect Portuguese residents or foreigners who are resident in Portugal are being encouraged to take advantage of the TAX AMNESTY that the new government has introduced. A new amnesty will...

Unthink anti-Facebook site launches

A new social networking site has launched into beta this past week, positioning itself as a rebel against Facebook and other big social players such as Google and Twitter. Unthink is most definitely an...

More expats cancelling plans to return to Britain

In February, Lloyds TBS International released a survey that suggested Read More...

Won The Battle But Lost The War

The constant challenges faced by businesses and organisations today to retain and inspire their customers means we all have to look differently at customer retention. Having successfully built new businesses...

Fast Forward Your Business or Lose It!!

We are all shy about blowing our own trumpets but lets be honest if you don't who will? Just to demonstrate to you how bad not shouting about your business can be I was working recently with a client who...

Web Site Designers Don't Understand Customers

One of the most important points about web sites is that designers think that visitors really care about them. The truth is they don't because your site visitors do not have the luxury to spend endless...

Building Your Business in Hard Times

I have lived through 3 recessions these being the early ‘80’s, the early ‘90’s and now 2009. All of them have three things in common; they caused businesses to tighten up and look closely at how...

Social media blamed for London riots

Social media is coming under fire for what some critics believe is its part in facilitating the organisation of the London riots. Twitter in particular is thought by some to have been used to inform potential...

Pierre Cardin PC-7006 designer tablet launched

A designer tablet has hit the market. And we don’t mean a tablet which is created to cater for CAD workers or professional artists in some respect. What we’re talking about is a tablet with a “label”...

First website’s 20th birthday today

It’s the birthday of the worldwide web today, the now indispensable virtual entity which we couldn’t live without (or we’d certainly struggle to). Or more precisely, the first ever website went...

Internet used more in Europe for online shopping than to browse social networks

The monthly N-economía report for July reflects the data from the 2011 Eurobarometer, which...

Chinese retailers smuggle Apple products from Hong Kong to meet demand

China is experiencing a huge boom in the desire for Apple products, and some independent retailers are taking advantage of this to import tax-free products from neighbouring Hong Kong. Last month Chinese...

Research shows web applications attacked every 2 minutes

A report released today by security company Minerva shows that businesses are attacked every two minutes through web applications, with automated attacks peaking at 25,000 per hour. The Web Application...

Luton Airport also adopts hologram staff

London Luton Airport has two new members of staff. And according to a BBC News report, they’re called Holly and Graham. And they’re holograms – see what they’ve done there: Holly-grahams. Manchester...

“Beautiful people” dating website sabotaged to admit uglies

The BeautifulPeople.com dating website has hit the headlines for giving the boot to 30,000 members who were mistakenly admitted to the ranks of the gorgeous. The site calls itself the “largest most...