Internet News

Bill Gates hints at Vista 'successor'

Microsoft boss Bill Gates has dropped a hint about the next version of Windows. He said Windows 7 could be released "sometime in the next year or so" during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. After the event a Microsoft spokeswoman said the ... read more
Date - 07 April 2008
Category - Internet News

Yahoo makes semantic search shift

Yahoo has announced its adoption of some of the key standards of the "semantic web". The technology is widely seen as the next step for the world wide web and it involves a much richer understanding of the masses of data placed online. The company said it would start to inc ... read more
Date - 14 March 2008
Category - Internet News

Pentagon bans Google map-makers

The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said. The move follows the discove ... read more
Date - 07 March 2008
Category - Internet News

Work begins to repair severed net

Work has begun to repair two damaged internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea that were severed last week. Flag Telecom, one of the firms responsible for the cables, says it will take about a week to be fixed. The break in cables has caused disruption to net services in the Middle Ea ... read more
Date - 07 February 2008
Category - Internet News

Christmas online sales 'rise 50%'

UK online sales rose by more than 50% in the three months to Christmas, according to an industry survey. Internet sales between 1 October and 31 December hit £15.2bn, up from £9.61bn a year earlier, with electronics and clothing doing well, Capgemini said. Firms with both ... read more
Date - 21 January 2008
Category - Internet News

Providers question 'neutral net'

As broadband speeds get faster and the appetite for video services grows apace, bandwidth becomes an ever more precious commodity. Already people are seeing the amount of bandwidth they can use limited by monthly caps and, in the US, operators have just won the right to charge more for ban ... read more
Date - 07 January 2008
Category - Internet News

Google debuts knowledge project

Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic. The search giant has already started inviting people to write about the subject on which they are known to be an expert. Google said it would not act as editor for the project but wi ... read more
Date - 24 December 2007
Category - Internet News

Weblogs rack up a decade of posts

The word "weblog" celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page. The word was an abbreviation for the "logging" of interesting "web" ... read more
Date - 20 December 2007
Category - Internet News

Drive advance fuels terabyte era

A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousand times smaller than the width of a hum ... read more
Date - 17 October 2007
Category - Internet News

Google cookies will 'auto delete'

Google has said that its cookies, tiny files stored on a computer when a user visits a website, will auto delete after two years. They will be deleted unless the user returns to a Google site within the two-year period, prompting a re-setting of the file's lifespan. The company ... read more
Date - 17 July 2007
Category - Internet News

Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'

Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resemb ... read more
Date - 14 May 2007
Category - Internet News

Card Acceptance - System Changes

Remove All Switch Logos Implementation date: 1 July 2007                   Impacted: All merchants You will need to arrange for the replacement of any Switch logo with the Maestro logo by 1 July 20 ... read more
Date - 04 May 2007
Category - Internet News

Retailers face card data clampdown

Key Issues Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard comes into effect from June If cardholder data is compromised, merchants face stringent penalties Retailers must limit access to resources and information Data collected by point of sale systems could also b ... read more
Date - 30 April 2007
Category - Internet News

Web counting tools 'need change'

The way web audiences are measured could be ripe for an overhaul, according to two reports out this week. Measurements based on page-views and cookies (small text files which track net use) could be affected by changing user behaviour, the studies warn. Net measurement firm comScor ... read more
Date - 19 April 2007
Category - Internet News

Windows XP to be retired in 2008

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers. A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive fou ... read more
Date - 15 April 2007
Category - Internet News

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