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Archive for March, 2011
20 Years of Privacy Audits Ahead for Google
31, Mar 2011The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ruled that Google has violated privacy promises that the search company made to users of their Buzz and Google Mail services. As punishment for providing “ineffective options” for “declining or leaving [Google Buzz], Google has been sentenced to 20 years of independent privacy audits by the FTC. [...]
BBC Websites Attacked?
30, Mar 2011Between 11pm and midnight last night, the BBC’s entire online offering was taken down due to “technical difficulties.” The outage saw every single BBC website, and the iPlayer service, taken offline for an hour. As of this morning, no official explanation has been given by anyone from the BBC’s technical support team, with BBC management [...]
One Advertising Pound in Four is Spent Online
29, Mar 2011One quarter of all the advertising budgets in the UK is spent on online marketing, such as SEO and PPC. Online advertising spend has increased by over 12% since last year, with British companies spending over four billion pounds per year on reaching new clients through the internet. That means that online marketing is now [...]
Five Million Choose Firefox Four
24, Mar 2011As the second most used internet browser in the world (after the much maligned Internet Explorer), Mozilla Firefox version 4 could have expected to make waves when it was released. But although five million of us have upgraded to Firefox 4, uptake has been far slower than with version 3. When Firefox 3 was released [...]
Google’s Library Closed
23, Mar 2011Ahead of today’s budget, people across the UK are expecting a fair few libraries to close – but over in the USA, judge Denny Chin has dealt a blow to what could have been the largest library in existence. Google has scanned millions of books from some of the world’s greatest libraries, including Oxford’s Bodleian [...]
- In: FirstFound News|Google|Technology
- Tags: books, google
China Blamed for Gmail Disruption
22, Mar 2011Google and China have a long, fraught relationship, especially when it comes to the Gmail service – so it’s no surprise that Gmail’s recent downtime in China has been blamed on the Chinese government. Users in China have complained that Google’s Gmail service has been disrupted over recent weeks, pointing to lack of functionality and [...]
Late last year, we pointed out that levels of spam on the internet were falling rapidly. Well now, thanks to Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and US Marshals, online spammers have taken another huge hit. Using a combination of legal action and raids by federal marshals, dozens of spam servers were closed down on March [...]