Category: Websites
Yahoo bring "social infusion" to their mail service
Yahoo! are giving their webmail client a bit of an overhaul today. Stating the new-look Yahoo! Mail service has had a "social infusion", the team are describing it as as "the best Yahoo Mail ever". Users can now respond…
Naked Wines MarketPlace is Groupon for wine-lovers
Wine-lovers and winemakers alike will rejoice at the launch of a new service from online retailers Naked Wines. They've just launched the Naked MarketPlace, offering quality vino at reduced prices through an online auction platform reminiscent of both eBay…
Groupon to enter live music arena
Groupon have today announced a new partnership with ticket distribution and music promoters Live Nation to launch a new venture called GrouponLive. With the busy summer festival period nearly upon us, GrouponLive will act as a further local resource with…
INTERVIEW: Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu on Android security, Twitter and cyber wars
Cybercrime is no longer exclusive to PCs and Macs, with hacks, spam, malware and trojans hitting smartphones, tablets and cloud storage services too. No-one knows this better than Costin Raiu of the security specialists at Kaspersky Lab. As the…
Photorealism comes to Nokia's 3D Ovi Maps
Nokia have updated their Ovi Maps service to add an impressive amount of detail to the Google Maps competitor, bringing photo-realistic 3D views of 20 major cities to the table. London, San Francisco, Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki among others…
All BBC websites out of order last night, but why?
The BBC's online portfolio experienced an unprecedented outage last night, with all of the broadcaster's websites inaccessible from between 11pm and midnight. Twitter was alight with users complaining about the failure, the biggest outage since the BBC.co.uk homepage went down…
Microsoft add coupons and deals to US Bing search results
A new coupons, deals and vouchers service will be integrated into US Bing serach results, Microsoft have confirmed via the Bing blog. The money-saving tips will cover "more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the…
BREAKING: WikiLeaks Assange to be extradited to Sweden
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden, facing allegations of sexual assault, a UK judge has ruled. The public face of the political whistle-blowing website has faced a controversial exile in Britain for the past few months…
Web archivist saves 172 axed BBC websites in torrent time capsule
A plucky BBC fan has set about the task of archiving almost 200 Beeb websites before distributing them online in a single torrent file. The BBC plan to cull some 172 of their websites in a massive cost-cutting measure, citing…
"Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks web attacks lead to five arrests in UK
The UK's Metropolitan Police service arrested five men today who the belive have been involved in the recent series of pro-WikiLeaks attacks on major web destinations. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said that the arrests are in relation to "recent and…