Google Earth integrated into Google Maps
Google has integrated its Google Earth 3D mapping tool into its Maps service, as the search giant further expands its location-based technology.
E-retail sales up 15%, boosted by good weather
Latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index show that online retailers are continuing to draw in consumers, with 15% more spent in March compared to last year. An estimated £4.5 billion was spent online in the month, compared to £3.9 billion in 2009.
Google reveals government data requests and censorship
For the first time Google has released details about how often countries around the world ask it to hand over user data or to censor information.
High street shoppers ‘taxed’ for not buying online
Shoppers are being hit by a “high street tax”, paying up to 70 per cent more for goods bought in store rather than online, according new research.
EU likely to push for Net Neutrality
The EU is expected to come out strongly in favour of so-called net neutrality – where users should always be able to access whatever content they want, regardless of telecoms companies' demands that high-bandwidth publishers pay them.
Self-service health website trialled in Scotland
A new online portal has launched in Ayrshire and Arran, providing patients in the NHS Scotland Trust the ability to access a range of services, including repeat prescriptions and appointment requests, and access test results.
Facebook to 'poke' electorally unregistered at the weekend
In what seems likely to be the most Web-friendly election yet in British politics, The Electoral Commission has teamed up with social networking website Facebook to help get some of the roughly 3.5m unregistered UK voters to sign up before the 20 April deadline.