Search engine, and now many other things, giant Google has closed 10 of its services in what has been described as a ‘Spring Clean’. These discontinued services are to include social powered question and answer tool ‘Aardvark’, news content experiment ‘Fast Flip’ and note taking service ‘Notebook’. This is being done so that Google can [...]

Since its release at the end of June, Google+ has had a fantastic start to life, managing to gain 25million users in its first month – rather impressive when biggest rival Facebook took 10 months to reach 1million – however, new statistics from Experian Hitwise has shown that some of the novelty is wearing off, [...]

New statistics have revealed that almost half of UK internet users are going online via their mobile phones. The information, from the ‘Office For National Statistics’ showed that 45% of people use mobile browsing when out and about, an increase from the 31% who said they do so last year. The biggest increase was amongst [...]

Social networking giant Facebook has paid out around $40,000 (£25,000) in the first 21 days of its ‘bug bounty program’. The aim of the program is to encourage users to help harden Facebook’s defences against attacks, by rewarding those who discover and report security bugs within the website. The program runs alongside Facebook’s own efforts [...]

Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has criticised I.T education in the UK during his ‘MacTaggart Lecture’ at the ‘Edinburgh International Television Festival’. The 56 year old became the first none broadcaster to speak at the lecture, and used this time to express his feelings, saying “If I may be so impolite, your [...]