You can watch most of your favourite shows online now, but be careful - you may still get a visit from those TV detector vans
Patience is a virtue … watch shows after broadcast to avoid a call from the TV Licensing vans
It has no doubt occurred to more than a few cash-starved graduates that they might claw back a few pounds by consigning the TV to the dustbin and dodge the £142.50 it now costs for a year’s TV licence. After all, those Macbooks they blew their loans on can now link to insanely fast 50Mb wireless broadband to construct whole TV schedules online, through means legal and not-so-legal. Read more…
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Chancellor calls for talks on how cash from switchover scheme can be used to bring internet access to all
Chancellor Alistair Darling: calls for talks with BBC Trust on surplus. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
The broadband industry will be able to use the estimated £250m underspend in the BBC’s digital switchover fund to bring internet access to everyone in the UK by 2012, under plans unveiled by the chancellor in today’s budget. Read more…
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The world’s biggest software company, Microsoft, has suffered its first drop in revenue since it went public in 1986 as the global economic downturn savages its once indestructible sales of computer operating systems.
Microsoft tonight revealed revenue of $13.65bn for the three months to March, a drop of 6% on the same period last year, as business customers trimmed their spending on technology packages such as Windows and Microsoft Office.
The company’s chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, offered a bleak forecast for the year ahead: “While we’d all like to think the economic recovery will be soon and painless, we unfortunately think it will be slow and painful.” Read more…
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Primark and Robert Peston were among Britain’s fastest growing subjects for internet searches, it emerged yesterday.
Over the past three years the budget retailer and the BBC’s business editor have replaced private school fees and business class travel as the most popular subjects searched on the internet.
The figures show a switch from spending to saving, said researchers at re-launched search engine Ask Jeeves. Read more…
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Facebook users have their last chance today to vote on the way the social networking site handles their data including photographs and profile information.
The site sparked fierce criticism in February when users complained about changes to terms and conditions.
The changes appeared to give Facebook ownership of user data, including pictures, video and profile information - even after users deleted their accounts. Read more…
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The privacy watchdog has rejected calls to shut down Google’s controversial Street View service after complaints that it intruded unfairly into people’s lives.
The Information Commissioner said the free online service, which features millions of detailed photographs of streets, homes, cars and passers-by, carried a ’small risk’ of privacy invasion.
However, it ruled that removing Street View would be disproportionate and that picturing people on it was no different to filming the faces of football fans for Match of the Day. Read more…
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Amazon opt-out delivers blow to Phorm’s controversial targeted online advertising technology
Richard Wray guardian.co.uk
Amazon has opted out of Phorm’s controversial targeted-advertising technology, delivering a blow to the UK-listed company, which is already the subject of a European Commission legal action against the UK government.
Phorm, which has yet to launch its service in the UK, gives website owners the opportunity to opt out of its technology, which lets internet service providers track where their customers are going on the net to gauge their interests and serve them more relevant adverts. Read more…
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Online firm to separate Skype through flotation
Move follows year-long review of telephone business
The internet auctioneer eBay is to spin off its global online telephone business, Skype, through a stockmarket flotation which will end an unhappy four-year relationship between the two companies.
EBay announced tonight that it intends to separate Skype through a public offering of shares by the first half of 2010. Based in Luxembourg, Skype has 405m users and its low-cost service accounts for 8% of the world’s international phone calls. Read more…
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Three years after being rebranded Ask.com, search engine reverts to Ask Jeeves in bid to take on Google
Mark Sweney guardian.co.uk
Three years after being ushered into retirement as a digital anachronism Jeeves, PG Wodehouse’s all-knowing butler, is being brought back as the brand name of Ask.com in the search engine’s latest multimillion-pound attempt to take on Google. Read more…
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