Digital training: London college offers secondary school pupils digital qualifications
A new London School offering pupils as young as 14 with digital qualifications alongside standard GCSEs is due to open this September.
UK
Britain’s Got Talent voting app goes live
ITV and FremantleMedia have launched two new ways for viewers to vote for their favourite Britain’s Got Talent contestants via their mobile phone.
O2 serves up free Wi-Fi at Costa
O2 has partnered with Costa coffee shops to offer free wi-fi to its customers, as the mobile network operator looks to expand its broadband services.
Russian online payment service comes to London
RBK Money, one of the top payment platforms in Russia, have chosen London to base its new European operations.
Right to reply: UK serious crime website downed by hack attack
The website of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has been taken offline following a cyber-attack. Andrew Kellett, senior security analyst at Ovum looks at why large organisations will need to beef up security as hackers become more sophisticated and ambitious.
Instagram enters top 10 social networks in UK
Last month, Facebook announced the $1 billion acquisition of photo sharing app Instagram. This is a landmark deal for the acquisition of an app but Instagram became the 10th most visited social network in the UK in March 2012, showing the increasing appetite for photo sharing online.
Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit’ to lead News Corp. say MPs
Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company”, MPs have said.
Right to reply: O2 Wallet enough to beat Google and Paypal?
Mobile operator, O2 has announced the launch of O2 Wallet – a service it says will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available. Eden Zoller, principal analyst at Ovum and author of upcoming report; Mapping Mobile Payments, April 2012, takes a closer look at … [Read more…]
Mobiles to replace credit cards? O2 Wallet goes live in UK
Mobile operator O2 has launched its much-anticipated digital wallet letting users send money using their mobile phone.
Ancestry.com snaps up family history website for $100m
US-based genealogy site Ancestry.com has bought Archives.com, a family history website, for approximately $100m.