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Rumour: Time Warner to buy Joost
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According to latest reports, a number of major US media outlets – including Time Warner – are considering buying internet TV company Joost. Joost, launched by the founders of Skype and Kazaa, is soon to finalise a deal with a buyer, according to an unnamed source on CNet. While it was surrounded by considerable hype upon launch back in 2007, Joost has singularly failed to win considerable support from content-providers or from advertisers and, as such, has faded into the background over the last year. Sony slaps down Joost "The firm was recently slapped in the face by Sony Pictures, which decided against renewing its contract with ...
Blunkett questions Olympics' cybersecurity
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Former Home Secretary David Blunkett is calling for the UK to improve its cybersecurity, and believes that it needs to be done before the 2012 Olympics. Speaking at Infosecurity Europe, which takes place in London this week, Blunkett believes that there should be as much a focus on strengthening cybersecurity as there is on sorting out security in the streets. "People have got to understand that we are in an entirely different world now than we were even five years ago," he explained. "We need to put cyber alongside chemical, biological and radiological threats. We need to be ahead of those who would damage us rather than a step behind." Look ...
BT claims cheapest combo broadband deal
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BT has announced a new plan that further signals its intent to get into the mobile broadband space as well as connecting our home PCs to the internet. Users of BTs new Total Broadband package will pay £15.65 per month and get up to 8Mb broadband in the home as well as 1GB of data via a mobile broadband dongle as well. However, this deal is quoted using BT's basic package, which means just 10GB of data at home per month, but also a free Home Hub as well. 6 months for the dongle The USB dongle is a basically an add-on to the package, so you have to pay £49.99 for the dongle and you add another six months to the deal by getting the 1GB ...
Website lets you rate UK beauty hotspots
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Many an internet user has had their vanity bubble burst by rating sites on the internet, but now it's time for the UK and Ireland to be scrutinised visually. New website ScenicOrNot is relying on the general public to find the best-looking sites in Great Britain. Users are asked to give images a 1-10 rating, with each photo representing 1km of land in the UK. There are over 200,000 images in a database, with both rural and urban locations catered for. Open source According to its makers Mysociety, the website will give users a random picture of the UK, so there can't be any sort of favouritism in the way you rate the ...
Spotify hits a million UK users
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Music-streaming service Spotify has hit a million users, according to its UK Managing Director Paul Brown. Speaking at the MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference on Monday, he revealed that the music service has gone from strength to strength since its official invitation-free launch in the UK in February this year. According to the website PaidContent, however, Brown didn't disclose how many of the million UK users actually paid for the music content the service offers. Instead he told audiences that it was "a decent proportion". Multiple models For the uninitiated, Spotify is available in three ways: as an ad-funded service, where ...
