Internet & local news round-up
March 2008
Email ruining lives!
Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK. That is almost three billion each day. But what is the real cost of this information overload?
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January 2008
Cyber thieves to target social networking sites
Security professionals are predicting what internet criminals will try in 2008 to catch people out. They say that sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace will become attack targets for the hi-tech gangs who are now behind the vast majority of cyber crime.
Some attackers have also tried to capitalise on the popularity of video clips on sites such as YouTube, putting booby-trapped links on pages that show the short films.
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December 2007
'In Case of Emergency' virus hoax
London Transport and mobile phone firms are warning about an e-mail that is spreading rapidly, which contains inaccurate safety information. The e-mail claims that passengers on the London Tube system can contact emergency services via a satellite signal from their mobiles underground. However, mobiles do not work in the London Underground and satellite signals cannot reach there either.
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November 2007
Get Safe Online Awareness Week: 12 - 16 November 2007
Find out how to protect yourself from identity thieves, viruses, phishing
and other internet threats. Help guard
yourself against online dangers with expert advice from the government,
the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and industry specialists.
Click here to find
out how to protect
yourself online >>
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October 2007
Bournemouth & Poole gets its own Monopoly game!
Poole and Bournemouth, where the land is worth more than the houses built on it, now has its own tailor-made Monopoly board. Local landmarks, such as Sandbanks, Brownsea Island and Westover Road, replace the famous streets, such as Mayfair, in the original game.
The customised version hits the shelves on 15th November and can be bought here.
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July 2007
British customers annoyed by firms' email response times
According to a report by Gloucestershire-based hosting firm, Fasthosts,
78 per cent of British consumers are unhappy with the time it takes firms
to answer email queries.
The study showed the average consumer sent three emails before receiving
a satisfactory response. It also found that a third of British consumers
had sent more than ten emails about a single customer service enquiry,
and nearly sixty per cent of those enquiries didn't receive a reply
within the first 24 hours.
More...
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June 2007
Half of Britons 'email addicts'
A survey carried out by ICM Research for Nasstar plc, has found that half
of Britons could not exist without email, with 30 or 40-somethings more
addicted than teens.
It was also found that 41% of all females admitted they would find it hard without email contact, compared to 38% of males.
More...
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June 2007
Europe online '24 hours a month'
A report by comScore Europe, says that more than 122m Europeans aged 15 and
above use the internet each day at home, school or in work.
Out of 16 countries
surveyed, the Netherlands had the highest score with 83% of the country
online.
The most popular online destination in 13 of the 16 countries was Google, followed
by Microsoft in second place and Yahoo in third.
More...
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May 2007
Increase in UK spend on internet adverts
Figures due to be published in June in the AA's Advertising Statistics Yearbook 2007 show advertising spend in the UK exceeded £19bn, up 0.7% from 2006.
Online advertising surged 47.5% to £2bn, 10.6% of total expenditure
and, for
the first time, UK spending on internet adverts topped 10% of the total spend.
Apart from the internet, outdoor advertising was the largest gainer. Meanwhile, money spent on UK television adverts fell for the first time since 2001.
"I believe online spend could overtake TV within the next three to four years," said Guy Phillipson, chief executive of the Internet Advertising Bureau, the trade association for the internet marketing industry.
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May 2007
Helvetica is 50!
One of the most popular sans serif fonts, Helvetica, has just celebrated
its 50th birthday. Some of the big names that use the Swiss typeface
are Gap, Orange, Currys, Hoover, Lufthansa, Panasonic, Royal Bank of
Scotland, Tupperware and Zanussi.
More...
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