A study in Australia has concluded that the significant decline in crime rates among youths, that has been seen in recent years, was down to them staying at home and playing on their Xboxes.
The Australian Institute of Criminology has recen...
Consumer watchdog Which? has again criticised Microsoft’s beleaguered operating system Windows 10 and has called for Microsoft to payout compensation to disgruntled customers.
Back in 2016 more than a thousand members of Which? got in tou...
Following last year’s record-breaking fine, the European Commission (EC) is believed to be set to hit Google with another fine. This time over its abuse of its market dominance of smartphone platforms.
According to the news agency Reuters...
Ofcom has released its latest annual report on the state of the UK’s fixed-line broadband performance with some interesting insights.
The UK Fixed-line Broadband Performance report is based on research undertaken in November 2017 with dat...
A red-faced European Court of Auditors has had to confirm than the ambitious target of more than half of European households having connections of 100Mbps by 2020 will be missed.
The Auditors admitted that, at present just 15% of households...
Facebook accused of granting device makers access to their users’ data: Beleaguered Facebook has become embroiled in yet another controversy after it was revealed they had given inappropriate access to its users’ data to more than 60 de...
Thanks to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Europeans can now download their personal data that Apple has collected on them.
Last week Apple launched a new Data and Privacy website that allows you to see and download all the d...
According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is getting tough on their returns policy. It has been reported that they have been banning shoppers for, ‘infractions such as returning too many items, sometimes without telling them what they ...
As part of Google’s ongoing strategy for an encrypted web, Chrome will now mark all HTTP pages that do not display the green secure lock with a red ‘Not Secure’ warning.
As far back as 2014 Google had proposed that Chrome would initia...
Following the poor annual financial results that saw the former state monopoly reveal the loss of 13,000 jobs, BT announced a number of new initiatives including the convergence of its broadband and mobile network.
BT Plus is intended to br...
