There are 684 articles posted by Charlie Ponsonby
posted on 23 October 2009 Sky announced its results for the quarter ending 30th September today and posted net customer additions of 94,000. This is a very strong result, reflecting the appeal of their three key services - digital TV, broadband and home phone. Sky+HD, Sky's high definition TV (HDTV) service was again the star of the show, adding 287,000 HDTV subscrib... [read more]
posted on 23 October 2009New data from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that online ad spend in September surpassed TV advertising for the first time ever. Web-based advertising increased by 4.6% during the first half of 2009 to reach £1.752bn, compared to TV spend declining by 15% from £1.9bn to £1.6bn year-on-year. In addition new fi... [read more]
posted on 22 October 2009Up until now the millions of "tweets" (text-message length thoughts expressed by users) on Twitter have been searchable based by their recency, but now following deals with Bing (Microsoft's search engine) and Google, users will be able to search the archive of tweets by subject. "Twitter is producing millions of tweets every minute on every su... [read more]
posted on 22 October 2009Which? the Consumers Association has just published a new broadband study of over 11,000 broadband users in the UK. The report shows that broadband is still a long way away from being a trouble free "utility". 57% of broadband users claimed to have had a problem with their broadband connection over the last 12 months. The most common broadband ... [read more]
posted on 22 October 2009Peter Mandleson recently announced the Government's intention to get tougher on illegal file-sharing, by allowing the rights-holders to pinpoint suspected illegal downloaders, who would then be cut off by their broadband provider. TalkTalk, the second largest UK broadband provider has launched a strong attack against the proposed moves. This w... [read more]