Posts Tagged with ‘UK’

It is evident that internet and mobile communications have built a strong presence in our everyday lives and help us with tons of activities like monitoring our bank accounts or getting the latest news about sales or special offers from our favorite stores. Yet many feel that some of the most important fields of our real lives get less attention than deserved.
BBC has an interesting story today about parents in the UK willing to get more updates on their children [...]

Strange how social networks behave today.
Bebo, a network with a strong member base in the UK, today announced its partnership with Facebook ? yes, partnership ? through which the two competitors will engage in cross-platform cooperation in the Web application space. Cooperation with one another only.
Yes, ?tis true. The company thought for weeks to be well in pursuit of the common OpenSocial goal some dozen online entities have espoused to hold allegiance to, Bebo has now come out [...]

An interesting yet thoroughly predictable finding resulting from a survey taken by the website Broadbandchoices.co.uk, as reported by the BBC today, is the overwhelming demand for fast and high-quality digital downloads of feature-length films.
Why interesting? Why predictable?
Well, clearly consumers wish to have their Web connections and cloud-based services provide easy access to great catalogues of titles of all genres, a la Netflix (albeit operated entirely over the Internet), as it would require one to perform fewer functions to enjoy items [...]

Earlier this week we brought you word about Skype’s imminent delivery of a mobile phone, which the company partnered with the international wireless network, 3 (Three), to provide consumers in many parts of the world with mobile VoIP calling and IM service. Well, folks, it’s arrived.
Today, the 3 Skypephone, as it has been labeled, is released to the UK market.
The debut of this official wireless-network-sanctioned wireless VoIP device is a first for a major Western carrier, and one that [...]

Following weeks of public opposition to the BBC’s delivery of a Windows-only IPTV-based software solution, dubbed iPlayer, Downing Street has now officially come to the aid of the 16,000 netizens who signed an electronic petition designed to address the matter of inequality. The UK government is reiterating conditions originally stipulated by the BBC Trust (a sort of internal watchdog of the media house) as indeed mandatory, and that the BBC must provide solutions for the minorities of the PC market. [...]

Oh, the horror! Say it ain’t so!
It’s so. No longer the dominant social network of the US and UK, MySpace relinquished its crown to Bebo in July 2007 (at least in the Kingdom), which claimed an advantage of roughly 600,000 unique visitors over R. Murdoch’s own Web-based social phenom. ComScore, the source of the latest figures, has stated that Bebo ended the first month-long stretch of Q3 with 10.7 million uniques, landing atop MySpace’s 10.1 million for the first time. [...]

Hey, what d’ya know, more YouTube news. The Google subset is now taking up more headline space than that which documents the travails of Paris Hil— Okay, I won’t go there. On to the topic at hand.
In its latest briefing to the world (literally) YouTube has done those based outside the US the courtesy of creating “country-specific” – nine to start – sites in order to better serve its international visitors/viewers. Nations listed in the global launch are: Brazil, England, [...]

In a piece published yesterday here on Profy, we mentioned Apple?s curious shift toward acceptance of Web app development, if only to appease the wolves in the third-party universe eager to make themselves at home on the iPhone platform. In short, Mr Jobs told the world of Web 2.0 to get coding, because they now have a chance to get their feet in what could be a very big door before even so much as a morsel of an [...]

Last.fm, the self-described “social music revolution,” has been acquired by “US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m, the largest-ever…Web 2.0 acquisition” in the UK.
The service, built to provide music fans worldwide with a base of fellow audiophiles with which to share favorite tunes and discover new ones easily, has in five years amassed a usership of “more than 15 million” people, making it a clearly desirable property – in this instance desirable for a business that has only recently (publicly) [...]