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RSS .ukNokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, and chipmaker Qualcomm announced yesterday they had entered into a new licensing agreement that settled all patent litigation between the two... [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Gill is meeting with the LSC next month to look at ways of funding more apprenticeships in other parts of the UK. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT... [23 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News The group is rolling out Google Apps Premier Edition to its 1,400 employees working on The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Weekly Telegraph, as well as the telegraph.co.uk website. Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. [23 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News Officials made more than 500,000 requests to snoop on private phone and internet information in the UK last year. More than 1,400 requests per day were made to spy on phone call records and web traffic last year, up on the average of less than 350... [23 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Mobile operator Orange UK is hoping the Eee has the edge over Apple's touchscreen mobile as it has stepped up to iPhone-wielding rival O2 - which is Apple's partner for the iPhone in the UK - and launched a range of mobile broadband packages which... [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News It said OneTouch will now be phased in to all 16 of its company-owned coffee bars around the UK, with discussions taking place with franchise outlets to extend the tech across the entire chain in the coming year. [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be the first to launch a search-and-book facility for the mobile phone. The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the... [23 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Recent research we conducted with online intellectual property specialist Commercial Security International estimates the value of counterfeit goods passing through online shopping sites in the UK to be as much as £800m. [22 Jul 2008]
Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News A worrying two per cent - or more than 290,000 drivers across the UK - said GPS has caused them to be involved in an accident or near-miss. According to Direct Line there are 14.83 million sat-nav users in the UK and 33.7 million motorists, so the... [22 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment And in the worst case it was necessary to dial in to the UK from far-flung places such as Singapore. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. [22 Jul 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News This follows the news in May that the BBC had overspent its 2007/8 budget for bbc.co.uk by £24.9m due to a "misallocation of resources". A total of £110m was spent on bbc.co.uk in the last 12 months - 48 per cent higher than the service licence... [22 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on extra work outside office hours. Freelance services website PeoplePerHour.com says it currently has 3,500 people offering work in at least... [22 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Several recent high-profile cases have involved UK customers receiving bills for thousands of pounds after using their handsets to download television shows while on holiday in Europe - often called 'bill shock'. [22 Jul 2008]
Domino's online sales pass 20 per cent
News Fast food takeaway chain Domino's Pizza UK has broken the 20 per cent mark in online sales for the half year ended 29 June - meaning one in five of its pizzas are now ordered over the web. The growth in online sales for Domino's is in line with the... [21 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News This came on the back of a recent survey in which the UK ranked fifth in terms of uptake of open source code. The 12-strong CIO Jury was split down the middle, indicating the UK take up of open source is actually higher than the 15 per cent the... [21 Jul 2008]
