posted on 16 May 2012
No news is good news for Orange as the mobile
operator and fixed-line broadband provider confirmed that
it did not gain any new customers nor it lost any
for the second quarter in a row.
It is worth underlining that before the aforementioned two
static quarters, the ISP was losing out on customers: 3,000
went away in Q3 2011 and 10,000 tried ... [read more]
posted on 16 April 2012
According to recent reports, Google has to fork
out $25,000 to pay up for a fine as the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that
the search giant failed to give enough information about its Street
View service collecting information about private Wi-Fi hubs, when
it was not granted permission to do so.
The FCC's investigation... [read more]
posted on 13 April 2012
Critics have recently pointed out that Android
is far from being Google's biggest cash cow as it
doesn't bring as much income to the company compared to its other
products.
However, the search giant's CEO, Larry Page,
has concluded that sceptics failed to see the long term picture
during a conference call discussing the results for th... [read more]
posted on 05 April 2012
According to recent reports, activists complained that social
giant Facebook did not act fast enough to meet the
demand placed by the Irish data protection commissioner
(DPC) to amend some privacy policy.
Some changes were expected to be made by the 31st of
March, however Facebook did not manage to meet the
deadline, albeit introducin... [read more]
posted on 03 April 2012
According to recent reports, after being slapped with handsome
fines (reaching 900k Euro), Apple has extended its
warranty policy to cover goods for two years, in accordance to EU
law.
Apple has been selling the additional cover as product without
letting the customer know that he was automatically entitled to a
replacement if items m... [read more]
posted on 28 March 2012
If you are planning on signing up for a new broadband contract,
you might as well take a peek at what Plusnet has
to offer.
The provider has added a £25 cashback to its
Value and Extra packages alongside its other promotion - four
months free home broadband and phone services.
The ISP also intends to activate the services for free (... [read more]
posted on 26 March 2012
According to recent reports, some companies are keen on having
access to your Facebook account and ask employees,
both existing and potential, to share their login details.
The Boston Globe wrote that certain employers
were "demanding" the details of their staff's social media
accounts, meanwhile Facebook said that this could land over... [read more]
posted on 12 March 2012
According to a certain analyst, Apple made more cash
from Google due to searches carried out via the former's
handsets and devices than the search engine
itself.
Financial specialist at Macquarie, Ben
Schachter, spotted that Apple's income statements
suggested that the search company paid the tech giant a whopping
$1bn to make Google... [read more]
posted on 09 March 2012
According to recent reports, Google is very adamant to push its
newest payment service, Google Wallet, through to
Android. The financial feature aims to steal the
spotlight from Apple's in-built iOS payment
system.
According to recent reports, Google has started to threaten app
developers who incorporated competing payment systems suc... [read more]
posted on 02 March 2012
It seems that Facebook is going to make
advertisers smile as it confirmed that it's going to give them more
access to subscriber data.
As a quick reminder, the social media giant currently has
roughly 845m users (including mobile).
The plan is to offer advertisers more exposure on the platform,
including appearing on news feeds, whi... [read more]