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AS Profile Another of Wales' online projects is Wikia - a free web-hosting service for wikis funded by adverts. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is a familiar face on the Agenda Setters list and one... [08 Oct 2009]
Ad-free Google Apps for 30,000 uni students
News Portsmouth University has started offering its 30,000 students ad-free access to Google Apps. So far 4,300 students have signed up to the free service - despite it still being the summer break - giving them access to webmail, online... [04 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment I am a long-time fan of the service, which allows you to stream music at will from a huge online database for free, as long as you don't mind a few adverts. Though Apple has rejected many iPhone apps that may threaten... [03 Sep 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News Phorm intercepts user data traffic to anonymously profile people and serve them adverts based on their web-browsing behaviour. The Prime Minister's Office has rebuffed a public call for a government investigation into... [21 May 2009]
Techies urged to "bed down" in jobs
News It appears that people are still looking for work but there are limited opportunities based on adverts," said the spokesperson. IT professionals should "bed down" in their jobs due to continuing uncertainty in the... [27 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment Also, how can the data Phorm uses, be truly autonomous when it manages to direct adverts back to a certain user? A silicon.com exclusive got readers talking this week, with (most) responses extremely thankful that trials... [23 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee slams DPI: "We must not snoop on the internet"
News Targeted advertising services, such as Phorm in the UK, use DPI to monitor anonymised user behaviour and to target adverts at those users. Prominent cross-bench peer Lord Erroll said DPI to target... [12 Mar 2009]
Google watches your interests to target adverts
News Google is to start serving advertisements to its users based on their browsing habits, the web giant announced on Wednesday. The company already offers advertising related to the site being surfed - so long as that site is a Google... [12 Mar 2009]
'Phorm's questions will be answered': EC
News Phorm's technology monitors the web-surfing behaviour of users in order to serve them context-specific adverts. Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, who has undertaken a detailed technical analysis of... [09 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Synthetic people
Comment Soon I suspect they will be replacing actors in more sedentary scenes - and I can see the possibility of a whole new genre with movies, TV shows and adverts totally populated by synthetic people. Written on KLM1515... [11 Nov 2008]
400 million QR codes coming to Pepsi packs
News QR or quick response codes - a type of 2D barcode - can be photographed by cameraphones and unscrambled to transfer information, typically URLs or adverts, to a user's phones. Thirsty UK consumers will be able to access... [06 Nov 2008]
Inbox: Hasta la Vista, cloud debate, Apple future gazing
Comment Am I putty in the hands of the shops where I buy things because I've believed their adverts? The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. [10 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.10.08
Round-Up It's also run radio adverts, which presumably ended with a rapidly spoken disclaimer about terms and conditions and a warning that if you get captured and fed alive to ill-tempered mutant sea bass the government will... [03 Oct 2008]
Tech jobs and budgets defy economic gloom
News The figures were released in the recruitment company's July 2008 Employment Index which tallies job adverts from a number of recruitment websites, not just its own. IT budgets and staffing levels are forecast to defy the... [15 Aug 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News The system can also display adverts or offers related to business. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed the perception of it being just a... [02 Jul 2008]
