Commit To Going Paperless in 2013 “Are you ready to retire your printer? On January 1, Google Drive, HelloFax and four other companies partnered to launch Paperless2013.org and offer free tools to help consumers and small businesses make the transition to a paperless life. Paper accounts for more than one third of all recyclables collected…
READ MOREIn-Flight Broadband Is Set for Takeoff “Aircraft are one of the few unconnected sanctuaries left in our lives. Unless you shell out the cash for an often-unspectacular bit of airborne bandwidth, a flight typically promises at least a few hours’ worth of uninterrupted time to read a great novel, take in a fine film or…
READ MOREMicrosoft ditches Messenger “Microsoft has announced it’s closing down its Windows Live Instant Messenger in favour of Skype This week, Windows users will bid a fond farewell to one of the most used applications in Microsoft’s OS armoury: Windows Live Messenger. Originally known as MSN Messenger, this instant-messenging service was something of a progenitor in…
READ MOREKickstarter to launch in the UK on October 31 “Move over Dragon’s Den, there’s a new kid on the block. The US crowdfunding site Kickstarter has revealed that it will launch in the UK on October 31 The site will give business bods the opportunity to raise funds to cover the cost of their ventures,…
READ MOREFacebook passes 1bn users “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed the social network now attracted ovcer one billion active users per month There are now more than 1 billion monthly users on Facebook, according to its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO posted the information in his FB profile this week, saying ” This morning,…
READ MOREGoogle Catalogs makes web-based catalog browsing a reality “For folks who prefer to get their retail therapy in digital form, Google Catalogs is a godsend. In case you forgot, it’s an aggregation portal with digital catalogs from myriad merchants that lets you browse retailer wares without killing trees and now it’s available on the web….
READ MOREAdobe announces Acrobat XI with tablet-friendly touchability, cloud services “Adobe has just updated its Acrobat lineup, including Pro, Standard and Reader to version 11 — and thrown in two new programs, FormsCentral and EchoSign, to boot. The latter two are cloud-enabled services which permit “web contracting, forms creation, data collection and analysis” according to Adobe,…
READ MORENominet proposes more secure .UK domain for British websites “Nominet is considering a .uk internet domain for users who can’t bear to type the extra three characters necessary for .co.uk. The body is lobbying for the new domain in time for ICANN’s next TLD expansion, which includes new entries like .shop, .play and .home. Nominet…
READ MOREW3C to finish HTML5 by 2014 “HTML5: coming sooner than people had originally guessed. Apart from the HTML 5.1 bits. In our interview with W3C HTML editor Robin Berjon, he outlined plans to release a stable snapshot HTML5 document in 2014, and in parallel continue releasing drafts of HTML.next that will be more fluid and…
READ MORENew Myspace unveiled “Remember MySpace? Of course you do, the original social network was huge. Acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million, it continued its rise to power being the most visited social networking site in the world until 2008. Eventually, the other social network took control and MySpace faded into obscurity….
READ MOREUK Government adds £14m to broadband pot “The government has added £14m to previously capped broadband pot that will benefit ten “super-connected” cities over the next three years The extra cash has been syphoned from an £830m fund for installing fibre optic broadband across the country and was announced by the Department for Culture, Media…
READ MOREGoDaddy’s DNS Servers Go Down, Along With Thousands of Sites “GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime. The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachable and websites hosted by GoDaddy are also down. The more problematic part is that any domain registered with GoDaddy that uses its…
READ MOREAtari ports classic games to HTML5 for web and Windows 8 “Atari is big on nostalgia this year, but it hasn’t had much in the way of software to reflect the trip down memory lane beyond the existing mobile apps. Its remedy to that shortfall is full of 2012 buzzwords. The new Atari Arcade includes…
READ MOREAmazon Cloud Drive launched in UK “The Amazon Cloud Drive is now available in the UK giving you 5GB storage for free. Simply download the app to your computer and you’re instantly granted the free storage with paid options for greater space. 20Gb will set you back a mere £6 per year, while 1TB will…
READ MORE7 Ways Your Family Can Get More Out of the Cloud “The cloud has long been thought of as that bit of magical server space that is normally reserved for businesses and tech-savvy early adopters. In reality, the cloud can also offer busy families a variety of helpful and time-saving resources that are easy to…
READ MOREAmazon launches Glacier archiving service, a cheap way to put your files on ice “Amazon’s S3 cloud service has proved a popular proposition, with many large web enterprises happily depending on it (most of the time) to serve up its content. Now, the internet retail giant is offering a similar product, aimed squarely at archives,…
READ MOREUK to have “fastest” broadband in Europe by 2015 “Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has stated that he wants the UK to have not just the “best” but the “fastest” broadband by 2015 The statement was made during a speech at Google’s Campus building in London, where Hunt said he was committed to bringing broadband speeds…
READ MOREMicrosoft debuts revised SkyDrive website and desktop apps, Android app coming soon “Microsoft just recently gave it’s web-based email offering a sweeping overhaul, and it’s now also done the same for its cloud-based storage service. As detailed in a typically extensive blog post, the company has today launched an all new as SkyDrive.com (rolling out…
READ MOREWeb 3.0: The Mobile Era “Whether they’re a newer mobile-centric startup like a Path or an existing giant like Facebook, the key will be monetizing n a mobile world. Monetizing in mobile will likely evolve in new directions relative to what we’ve seen in the PC-web. Specifically: monetizing in Mobile is about getting even more…
READ MOREInternet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents “The Internet Archive has just enriched the BitTorrent ecosystem with well over a million torrent files, and that’s just the start of “universal access to all knowledge.” The torrents link to almost a petabyte of data and all files are being seeded by the Archive’s servers. Founder Brewster Kahle…
READ MOREAmazon says ebooks outsell print books “Amazon has revealed that UK consumers are buying more ebooks for its Kindle reader than print books on its retail website Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114 ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this number includes the sales of…
READ MOREBest Google Nexus 7 tablet apps to download first “Best Google Nexus 7 apps to download for the sub-£200 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet that packs some pretty impressive premium features From the great screen to the wallet-friendly price, the 7-inch Android tablet definitely made a good impression on the T3 team as you can…
READ MOREWant free Wi-Fi in London? O2 has you covered “This summer O2’s cup overfloweth with generosity of the free Wi-Fi variety. It’s set up seven free Wi-Fi hotspots near major London landmarks, to help out those visiting London for the Olympics. O2 aims to help visitors keep their data costs to a minimum while roaming…
READ MORESamba ‘free’ 3G internet service launches today “Samba, an ad-funded service that offers users access to free 3G internet depending on the amount of ads they view, has launched in the UK today Samba, an ad-funded service that ‘rewards’ users with access to free 3G internet depending on the amount of adverts they view, has…
READ MORESocial Media Is the Top News Source for Brits Under 25 “Social media is the news source of choice for Britain’s under 25-year-olds residents. According to the first Reuters Institute Digital Report, 43% of people between 16 and 24 get their news from social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, rather than search engines, such…
READ MOREMalware Shuts Down Internet for Many, But Was It Overhyped? “Although a nasty piece of malware called DNSChanger was set to kick thousands of Mac and PC users off the Internet on Monday, no major companies experienced issues related to the so-called “Doomsday Virus.” The FBI shut down domains earlier this morning that had been…
READ MOREACTA Rejected in European Parliament “The European Parliament has rejected ACTA in a 478 to 39 vote, making the controversial trade agreement effectively dead and gone — at least in its current state. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been called “more dangerous than SOPA,” at one point had support from many governments around the…
READ MOREAdobe Won’t Support Flash in Android 4.1 “And thus ends the tale of Flash on mobile browsers: Adobe has announced it will not support Flash Player browser plugin for Android 4.1 and onward. “There will be no certified implementations of Flash Player for Android 4.1,” writes Adobe on its official blog, adding that it recommends…
READ MORE‘Leap Second Bug’ Causes Glitches for LinkedIn, Reddit, More “After an extra second was added to the clock on Saturday to better align it with the Earth’s rotation schedule, a whole slew of websites from LinkedIn, Foursquare and Reddit to Mozlila, Yelp and Gawker sites experienced technical issues. Known as a “leap second,” which is…
READ MOREThe British Music Industry Now Controls Your Internet “One by one the UK’s ISPs are falling to a creeping censorship of the web led not by some secretive government organisation but by the UK’s music industry in the shape of the British Phonographic Industry, the British record industry’s trade association. There is no democratic check…
READ MOREMozilla Launches Thimble, A Web-Based Code Editor For Teaching HTML and CSS “Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced the launch of Thimble, its latest project to teach more users how to build their own web pages. Thimble, which is part of Mozilla’s recently launched Webmaker project, is meant to help…
READ MOREDefamation Bill could see online monitoring increase “A senior associate at a leading law firm has expressed concerns the new Defamation Bill could see monitoring reach levels seen during the London Riots A Senior Associate at a law firm has expressed concerns to T3 over the new Defamation Bill, suggesting that both innocent and suspected…
READ MOREWhy IPv6 Is a Win for Digital Advertising “For everyday users, yesterday’s big shift in Internet addresses — from the IPv4 to IPv6 — will go unnoticed. To anyone doing business on the Web, though, it’s of extreme interest, and there’s one group who may benefit from the re-organization more than others: advertising networks. First,…
READ MORELinkedIn confirms security breach, ‘some passwords’ affected “Reports began swirling this morning that around six million passwords attached to LinkedIn accounts had been compromised, and after looking into the matter, the site has confirmed that “some of the passwords” attached to accounts of LinkedIn members have been affected. The network doesn’t specify the number of…
READ MOREGoogle Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery “Google is keeping the string of Maps launches going — it’s just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like Google Earth, using a “new process” to get extra depth. In some areas, such as San Francisco, it models every building and delves down into…
READ MOREFree WiFi on London Underground launched by Virgin Media “50 days remain until the start of the 2012 London Olympic games and to mark the occasion Richard Branson and co. have kindly decided to broadcast WiFi for all Apple iPad Today sees the beginning of Virgin Media’s campaign to install free WiFi in nearly 80…
READ MOREIPv6 Traffic Hits New Heights On IPv6 Launch Day “You probably didn’t notice, but yesterday was IPv6 Launch Day and thanks to support from major sites like YouTube, Netflix and others, it was quite a success. In 2011, a number of leading websites, ISPs and home router equipment manufacturers came together to test the successor…
READ MOREVirgin Media names the first 80 tube stations to get WiFi hotspots “Transport for London and Virgin Media have announced the first 80 London Underground stations that’ll receive free WiFi in time for the Olympics. By the end of July, users will be able to surf from the train platform, ticket offices and escalators —…
READ MOREEU Privacy Directive: Why All The Fuss? Just Be Open With Users “EU Cookie legislation is now in force across Europe, but in a last minute change on Friday, the UK’s information commissioner amended the way it will be implemented in the UK. It’s now the case that sites will only have to obtain ‘implied…
READ MOREUK cookie law comes into force “Websites in the UK have to change the way they track users from now on, with sites having to receive ‘implied consent’ from visitors that they don’t mind the site keeping tabs on their online movements. The law has been mooted for some time and originally required ‘explicit consent’…
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