Tag: Web
SpaceTime web browser hasn't been created by Jobs and Gates, promise…
SpaceTime may look like it’s a child born out of wedlock between Windows Vista and Mac OS X on a summer holiday in Majorca when a boozy night went a bit pear-shaped, however the 3D web browser isn’t actually related to them at all.
The application is free for PCs, and there’s a version swinging its way over to Mac soon. Check out the video above for a glimpse at what it can do, and to hear…
Opinion: Stamp out striking posties with email
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
For those outside the UK, the reason for this rant won’t mean much but the wider implications affect us all wherever we live. We’re currently in the grip of a nationwide wildcat postal strike in Britain and it’s started to get me more steamed up than that kettle you use to open your partner’s letters.
And it got me thinking, what’s the point of post anyway now we have email. I’ve had a pile of stamps sitting on my desk for months.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for workers rights, fair pay for a fair day and all that, and I love my new postie, he’s very friendly and helpful. But the sooner everyone switches over to electronic delivery and snail mail dies off, the better life will be…
Opinion: Panorama fight video expose proves the web needs policing
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
It takes a lot to shock me and I thought – having worked on and with the internet for the past seven years – that I knew the majority of its positives and negatives. But I’m truly appalled by BBC1’s Panorama investigation into real-life violent videos uploaded onto the web.
Shown on the channel last night, reporters looked at the people who film the sickening scenes, those who have fallen prey to the stupidly named “happy-slapping” attacks (do you see the victims smiling?) and it also focused on the firms allowing such videos to be shown to millions of cyberspace viewers…
Over 55s actually know how PCs work
And, according to a Microsoft survey of PC users, 95 percent of grey browsers over the age of 55 use their PCs every day – and 76 percent of these use the web to shop online.
Elsewhere in Microsoft’s state of the nation PC survey, it found that 83 percent of people…
The iPhone features you'll actually use: texting, clock…
So yes, iPhone’s got loads of great features, but will you actually use any of them?
Yahoo launch web version of Messenger
Yahoo have just launched an online version of their Messenger service, meaning that users can access their instant messenger without needing the software to be downloaded on their computer.
3'S X Series Live Launch
So here we are live at what 3 is billing as the most important press conference given by an mobile phone network this year. Big talk. But the network has flown in a series of big names to entertain the…
Britain's Internet divide widening, research suggests
New research from Point Topic suggests that the divide between those with access to the Internet, and those without, could be widening. Whilst those with Net access are accessing it at increasing speeds and putting more of their lives online,…
