Ofcom make more spectrum license exempt

Ofcom has announced plans to make spectrum license exempt in the 3400 to 3800 MHz band and the 2GHz band. The 3400 - 3800 MHz band can be ...

The Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative to secure mobile devices

Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have teamed up to form the The Next Generation Secure Memory Initiative which will...

Ofcom mandates battery back-up for FTTP services

Ofcom has published a statement mandating battery back-up for fibre provided broadband. The Communication Provider must provide at least 1...

iTunes Match, great, but SLOW

Apple seem to have sorted the initial problems with iTunes Match and it's now up and running, the service costs £21.99 per annum. The f...

Apple's iTunes Match comes to UK (sort of)

It's now possible to purchase Apple 's iTunes Match in the UK (in iTunes, go to Store, then Account - which appears at the top right...

Duedil raises second angel round

Duedil , the company that offers free information about UK and Ireland companies and company directors has raised a second angel round from ...

Maggies Hope Page is Million Dollar Homepage v2

Alex Tew famous for the Million Dollar Homepage site, has now set-up another site Maggies Hope Page in order to raise funds to support hi...

New look GMail has chat and calls

It seems that the new version of Google 's GMail has re-instated free calling into the web based email service. It has been available to...

Buy a Watch, Plant a Tree

WeWood When I co-founded the Green Software Unconference Silicon Valley , I partnered with Mokugift to plant a tree for every participant. I...

Cardmunch, probably the most useful iOS app in the world

Cardmunch (now Cardmunch by LinkedIn ) is an iPhone app (though it will work on an iPad or iPod Touch) is a business card reader that gets ...

New start-up Quantenna gets Gigabit WiFi out

WiFi has been around a while but there are always improvements being made. The last major release 802.11n support MIMO, faster transmission...

Moshi Monsters leaves the web and move on to the Nintendo DS

Moshi Monsters the children's on-line social world that already has over 50m registered users (between 6 and 12) has now moved on to th...

NVidia introduces Tegra3

NVidia has starting showing off it's new Tegra3 ARM based system (code named Kal-El). It has 4 cores based on the Cortex-A9 architectur...

Ofcom fine Just4Us TV and Playboy TV

Ofcom has fined Just4US TV Ltd (£60,000) and Playboy TV UK/Benelux Ltd (£40,000) for offensive advertising relating to premium rate call ser...

Moonfruit makes on-line selling easy

A couple of weeks ago, Moonfruit the website building service launched the ability to set-up an eCommerce enabled shop through their on-lin...

Marie Curie's 144th Birthday Google Doodle

Celebrate the 144th birthday of pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie with today's Google Doodle. Born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw...

Sony Ericsson drops Ericsson for €1.05

Sony Ericsson is departing ways with Ericsson and Ericsson is being paid €1.05bn for the privilege. Sony will incorporate the phone divisi...

Microsoft completes acquisition of Skype

Yesterday (13/10/11) Microsoft completed the acquisition of Skype which now can operate as a business devision of the Redmond Corporation....

Lady Gaga goes Goo Goo about a Moshi Cartoon

Moshi Monsters the brain child of Michael Acton Smith and parent company Mind Candy has been slapped with an injunction by world famous p...

RIM plays a game of TAG

RIM the company behind Blackerry has introduced Blackberry TAG an application for Blackberry v7 devices with NFC (near field communication...

Snapdragon S4 powered by bugs

This is either the cruelest video ever (there's no "no harm to insects was involved in the making of this video") or quite fun...

BT and EE launch LTE trial (in Cornwall)

BT Wholesale and Everything Everywhere have launched a trial of LTE (long term evolution or 4G) services running in Cornwall. The trial wi...

Plessey introduces EPIC sensors

Plessey Semiconductor has introduced a new sensor based on their Electric Potential Integrated Circuit (EPIC) that be used for ECG (electro...

Ofcom delays auction of 800MHz and 2.6GHz (again)

Ofcom , the regulator that deals with broadcast, media, telecoms, radio and now the postal service has once again delayed the 800MHz and 2.6...

Nuance takes over voice, text and screen input

Nuance the company that pretty well dominates the text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) market is now taking over the whole device ...

RIP Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs has died at the young age of 56 after years of fighting cancer. He has affected many people in many ways, mainly good though in t...

Worldwatch Report Assesses US Sustainability Record and Calls for Renewed Innovation and Leadership

Per a new report from the Worldwatch Institute: Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need for Innovation and Leadershi...

Droidcon takes place on the 6th and 7th of Oct

Droidcon is the London Android conference and it's taking place at the Business Design Centre in Islington over 2 days (6th and 7th Oct...

Ofcom now looks after your post too

Ofcom the 'super' regulator that looks after the broadcast, media, radio and telecoms industries also now regulates the Post Office...

MeeGo is dead, Long Live Tizen

Intel has decided to drop Meego (the combined efforts of its own Moblin efforts and Nokia's Maemo) in favour of a new Linux mobile OS kn...

Qualcomm introduces new powerline and WiFi chips

Qualcomm (or to be exact Qualcomm Atheros) has announced severel new chips including the AR7420 which is Homeplug AV compliant and supports ...

Amazon to release colour Kindle (Fire)

Amazon is expected to release it's new colour Kindle (Fire) tablet tomorrow (28th Sept 2011). It's expected to be a 7" tablet (...

October 4 New York City WNSF Sustainability Leadership Summit

I attended last year's  WNSF's Businesswomen's Sustainability Leadership Summit  at IBMs Silicon Valley Facility. This year, the...

Ofcom bans ARCs

Ofcom , the regulator that deals with broadcast, telecoms and radio has published a statement that will stop telecoms and broadband provide...

Ofcom to charge Communications Providers for number allocations

Ofcom , the super regulator that looks after broadcast, radio and telecoms has issued a statement about protecting number ranges and intend...

Ofcom offering a new digital channel

Ofcom is making available a 5th HD channel on the HD Digital Terrestrial TV multiplex. The existing 4 HD channels are BBC HD, BBC One HD, I...

Ofcom offers new spectrum for Transportable Earth Stations

Ofcom has opened up new spectrum in the C and Ka bands for use by Transportable Earth Stations (TES) i.e. portable satellite communications...

Ofcom opens Whitespace spectrum

Ofcom the super regulator that deals with regulation of broadcast media, radio and telecoms has made a statement about opening-up 'whi...

Ofcom issues a notification to HomeServe

Ofcom the super regulator has issued a notice under section 128 of the Communication Act 2003 to HomeServe (HomeServe Plc) for persistant b...

Reuters: German rail to run on sun, wind to keep clients happy

Ofcom puts TV companies on notice

The following companies have been put on notice for non payment of broadcast license fees: - Licensee Licence Number Service Name A&...

Green Star Solution is a California Certified Bay Area Green Business!

Great News!  Green Star Solution , the parent company of Clean Tech and Green Business News is now a California-Certified Bay Area Green Bu...

Ofcom fines TalkTalk and Tiscali £3m

Ofcom has fined TalkTalk and Tiscali £3m each for mis-billing customers after they had been previously warned to get their systems in order....

Nuance buys Loquendo

Nuance who are buying up everyone involved in text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) have just purchased Loquendo from Telecom Ital...

Google to buy Motorola Mobility

Google is buying Motorola Mobility their (ex) handset division for $12.5bn in cash, however Mobility also manufactures set-top boxes (and ...

Duedil - find information on companies for free

Finding information about companies has always been complicated, basic information is available at Companies House , but to get anything use...

Moshi Monsters invade New York

Though there are over 15m US Moshi Monster users, so far they've only been able to play on-line. On 5th August 2011 that will change as...

Ofcom publishes report on DEA site blocking compliance

Ofcom the super regulator that looks after radio, broadcasting, media and telecoms has published a report (PDF) about blocking access to s...

VoIP can be a dangerous game

Many businesses are starting to deploy or already have deployed IP PBX's (private branch exchanges) which are the guts of VoIP that rout...

Worksnug goes live on Ovi

Last week (28/07/11) Worksnug announced their new iPhone app which includes all of HP's ePrint locations. The app offers an augmented ...

New PhonePayPlus regulations affect all PRS providers

Ofcom has issued a statement concerning premium rate phone services (PRS) which come into force on the 1st of September 2011. PhonePayPlus (...

Springboard gives birth to 10 promising companies

Friday 29th July was investor day for Springboard, the mentoring and accelerator program based out of Cambridge, where the 10 companies that...

RIM releases BBM v6

RIM have released Blackberry Messenger version 6, which allows application integration so say a BBM connected game will allow the user to in...

Skype for Windows offers deeper Facebook integration

Skype have released version 5.5 for Windows which now allows checking the availability of Facebook friends without leaving the Skype clien...

Mozilla plans mobile OS

Mozilla is joining the mobile operating systems bandwaggon and plans to launch Boot to Gecko (B2G) an open operating system designed to run ...

RIP Steve Lacey

This weekend turned out to be a weekend of carnage, a right wing fanatic killed lots of people in Norway and Amy Whitehouse died. However th...

TIM is 75 on Sunday 24th July

TIM is affectionate name for the BT speaking clock (or as it's now called Timeline), which was the first 3 letters of the T.I.M.E on the...

Intel's Museum of Me

Though it's been around for a while, Intel have developed an application called the Museum of Me which takes your social graph (by logg...

Ofcom reduces BT's wholesale broadband charges

Ofcom the super regulator today has published a statemen t which means that BT will have to drop its wholesale broadband prices by 12% bel...

SeaMicro puts 768 cores into a 10U system

The new SeaMicro SM1000-64HD is an evolution of the SM1000-64 offering 1.5 times the speed but only consuming 1.25 times the power. Each un...

BBC launches a crowd-sourced 3G mapping app

The BBC has launched an Android application that measures 3G signal strengths in the background (along with location data), so that real-tim...

Spotify launches in US today

Any current Spotify users can invite their friends from across the pond to use the service while anyone in the US can sign-up to apply for ...

Videos: Laurel Reitman, VP Product Joyent and John Fritz, Director Strategic Software Services AMD - Structure Cloud Computing 2011

I've attended the GigaOm Structure Cloud Computing Conferences for several years now and have enjoyed seeing the evolutions happening in...

Video: Nicholas Walker Landscape Designer Interview at Dwell on Design 2011

Nicholas Walker By @MaryVincent Nicholas Walker heads the outdoor division of Kathy Ireland's Jardin J du J brand which launched at t...

Ignite100 applications close 17th July

Ignite100 is a new incubator program based in Newcastle that gives teams up to £100K in funding. It replaces the Difference Engine incubato...

Video: Kathy Ireland Interview at LA's Dwell on Design 2011

Kathy Ireland By  @MaryVincent Kathy Ireland is the CEO & Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide , a $1.9 Billion a Year Lifestyle De...

Skype releases v5.2 for MacOS X

Skype have just released version 5.2 for Mac, it now supports group video calling (and sharing screens when in a group video call). Unfortu...