Good news comes to businesses which want to pay nothing for broadband, as mobile operator and fixed-line broadband provider, O2, has decided to start providing its internet and landline services for free for the first six months. Wittily called, The Flying Start, the promotion is targeted at companies which employ 1-2000 members of staff. In addition, those who have an existing mobile voice ...

If you are thinking about getting fibre broadband but have previously been discouraged by the price, you're in luck. Plusnet has decided to half the cost of its latest FTTC offering for three months. This means that for the first three months you will be paying £8.24 per month and £16.49 thereafter if you choose to go for the Plusnet Value pack. However, the price slashing promotion applies ...

Internet users will soon be able to avoid targeted adverts as the UK Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has started putting together a new on-screen icon devoted to doing just that. The development of this icon comes following a surge in complaints to the ASA about targeted advertising. This type of product promoting is done by cookies that companies create, which collects data about the use...

Good news is coming to Sky customers, as the giant has announced a whole array of improvements that it has made and is going to make to its Sky Anytime+ product. Sky is planning to expand the number of the programmes it offers on its VoD (video-on-demand) service, as it has underlined that it saw the product grow rapidly. Sky Anytime+ is now available to over a million of UK homes (1.2m to b...

While Nokia seems to be slapped by competition, Samsung has reported more joyous news. According to recent reports, Samsung has posted its best yet quarter, reporting that its operating profit reached £3bn, all thanks to the sales of its smartphones. While popping champagne bottles, the firm also admitted that it was planning to invest a further $22bn into improving the production...

In a bid to avoid a batch of legal charges from some countries, Twitter has decided to add some geographical changes to the way we tweeted. Some of you might remember that Twitter, among other social media platforms, was widely used during the London riots, but equally has been seen as a news source during the Arab Spring as users were posting images and videos as well as personal ex...

Some of you might remember that a certain flaw within O2's system was uncovered a few days ago, but now the mobile operator has confirmed that the error is fixed. As a quick reminder, the mistake meant that websites had access to the numbers of O2 customer's that were visible when users accessed the web. This raised a whole array of privacy concerns - the websites could have used t...

Health experts have now claimed that tablet computers may well be harming us - causing shoulder pain, for instance. A study conducted by Microsoft, the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and a few US ergonomics experts claimed that the main reason why your iPad might be killing you slowly is that you probably are positioned wrong when using it, which can re...

The European Commission is planning to force internet giants such as Google and Facebook to give their users more control over their personal data. The proposal would force websites to get consent from users to collect their data. They would also have to tell users how they intend on using the information and allow data to be completely erased by the user. Not doing so would mean ...

Ofcom gave the green light to mobile operator Everything Everywhere (which is the parent company of both Orange and T-Mobile) and BT to prolong their Cornish 4G trial until the 30th of June, 2012. As a quick reminder, the scheme has kicked off back in October, is running on the 800MHz spectrum band and currently covers rural St. Newlyn East. The firms asked for an extension because...