High street retailers look online for growth
30th April 2009
High street retailers in the UK are increasingly turning to e-commerce to remain competitive, according to a new report.The latest e-retail index from eDigitalResearch, which measures the performance of the UK's biggest e-commerce sites, revealed that Marks & Spencer moved up from tenth to...
Ovi Store to have "thousands" of apps
30th April 2009
Nokia's forthcoming Ovi mobile app store will launch with thousands of applications, the company has revealed.Speaking at the Nokia Developer Summit 2009, Eric John of Nokia said that the manufacturer is currently sorting through thousands of different apps submitted by developers in the hope of...
Zoho extends mobile services
30th April 2009
Online office suite Zoho has announced an expansion of its mobile offerings for a number of different devices.The open source service's mail, calendar, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and Creator apps are now available to those using the iPhone, Android-enabled phones and BlackBerry,...
Fashion e-commerce 'set for growth'
29th April 2009
The fashion e-commerce sector is likely to continue to grow, it has been suggested.According to Cosmopolitan fashion director Shelly Vella, consumers are increasingly turning to the web for clothing and footwear as online shopping can be easily fitted into a busy lifestyle.She also highlighted the...
UK sales of G1 set to hit 100,000, says T-Mobile
29th April 2009
T-Mobile has revealed that sales of the G1 are approaching the 100,000 mark in the UK.It said that sales of the handset have outstripped those of its other phones since it was launched last year.The figures come shortly after the mobile operator's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, reported one...
Report reveals European mobile web trends
29th April 2009
New research has offered an insight into the most popular types of online content perused by mobile web users in Europe.Younger mobile internet users tend to prefer social networking, online search, entertainment news and weather information when surfing the web from their phones, according to...
Falling pound 'good for international e-commerce'
28th April 2009
The recent decline in the pound's value spells good news for e-commerce retailers that deliver internationally, it has been suggested.According to the Times, both small e-commerce specialists - such as those trading on eBay - and larger outfits like Asos and Amazon have seen international...
Android 1.5 SDK launched
28th April 2009
The first release of the software development kit (SDK) for Android 1.5 has been launched.Developers can download the SDK from android.developer.com. The kit includes multiple versions of the Android platform, as well as a new feature called Android Virtual Devices.This offers configurations of...
Samsung unveils first Android phone
28th April 2009
Samsung has announced its first Android-powered mobile phone, which will be launched in Europe this June.The I7500 smartphone offers a 3.2-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth, a five-megapixel camera, up to 40 GB of memory and the ability to connect to the web via 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and Wi-Fi...
BBC News praised for usable headlines
28th April 2009
A usability expert has rated the BBC News website as having the most user-friendly headlines.Jakob Nielsen of Nielsen Norman Group, a web consultancy, praised the site - which underwent a major redesign last year - for its short and informative headlines.He also highlighted the fact that the...
Corporate sites 'should provide clear communication'
27th April 2009
Corporate websites are most successful when they clearly communicate their key business drivers and data about their market share to potential stakeholders, according to a new Investis IQ survey.Research conducted by the group assessed the corporate websites of FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 firms on...
Cross-platform operating systems 'to become more widespread'
27th April 2009
Mobile manufacturers are likely to "pool resources" to develop cross-platform operating systems in an effort to offer consumers a less expensive mobile experience, according to the lead content writer for an independent mobile phone comparison site.Tom Newton of Mobile Phones asserted...
T-Mobile G1 sells 1m units in US
24th April 2009
The only mobile phone currently available that runs on the Android operating system has sold one million units to date in the US.This is according to the latest financial figures for the first quarter from T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, which show over one million G1 handsets have been...
Social media 'can help e-commerce sites'
24th April 2009
E-commerce sites could benefit from including social media in their marketing strategies, according to MarketingSherpa.The website said in its latest report on the online retail site that marketers should not ignore Web 2.0 sites and technologies as they can provide a good source of high-quality...
Google Product Search gets mobile makeover
24th April 2009
Google has announced that mobile users accessing Product Search via their handsets can now see a reformatted version of the service.Product Search has been refined to work better with the iPhone and Android devices in the US and the UK and allows users to view online ratings, reviews, prices and...
DFS still top in retail website rankings
23rd April 2009
Furniture retailer DFS has managed to hold on to the top spot in this month's e-commerce website rankings as compiled by Sitemorse for the Retail Bulletin. Sitemorse's analysis looks at criteria such as function, accessibility and quality of code in the first 125 pages of each site to determine the...
Web 'poised for further growth'
23rd April 2009
The internet has not yet fulfilled its whole potential, one of the inventors of the web has claimed.Speaking at a seminar discussing the future of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that the web he envisages has still not come to pass."The future is still so much bigger than the...
BBC, Times win top news website awards
23rd April 2009
The BBC and the Times have won a major news website award at the 2009 Newspaper Awards.BBC News and the Times Online were named the joint winners of the Electronic News Site of the Year title at the ceremony yesterday (April 22nd).The Financial Times and the Guardian both received commendations for...
UK online sales continue to rise in March
22nd April 2009
UK consumers spent 19 per cent more on e-commerce purchases in March than they did in the same month in 2008.This is according to the latest statistics from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, which also revealed a nine per cent increase in online sales between February and March 2009.While...
Google launches 3D web API plug-in
22nd April 2009
Google has launched a new application programming interface (API) plug-in for the creation of interactive 3D web applications.The O3D API is shader-based and is aimed at deploying low-level 3D graphics within the browser.Matt Papakipos and Vangelis Kokkevis of Google said that while O3D is still at...
Study ranks Yahoo! top for mobile search
22nd April 2009
A new study has rated Yahoo! as offering the best mobile search experience out of all of the major search engines.Conducted by Gomez and dotMobi, the research placed Yahoo! in the top spot after examining each mobile search engine based on five main criteria - readiness, discoverability, speed,...
E-commerce web visits falling, says Hitwise
21st April 2009
British web users are starting to spend less time shopping on e-commerce websites, new figures have indicated.E-commerce sites represented about 8.6 per cent of all UK website visits last month, compared with 9.7 per cent in March 2008, Hitwise revealed.Furthermore, traffic to other website...
Apple iPhone 'has massive smartphone lead'
21st April 2009
The iPhone's lead in the smartphone market is substantial, according to new figures from a mobile analytics company.Flurry said in its latest industry report that 87 per cent of consumers use iPhone applications, compared with seven per cent who use Android and six per cent on the JavaME platform,...
Mobile social networking 'on the rise'
21st April 2009
New research has revealed that mobile social networking is increasing in the UK.According to a study carried out by the Opinion Matters Tickbox.net panel for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), 25 per cent of UK adults check their social networks or upload content to them via the mobile web.Web...
Flash technology extended to digital home devices
20th April 2009
Adobe has announced that its Flash rich media technology can now be implemented in web-connected TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players, among other devices.The company has extended its Flash platform to allow developers to build rich applications that TV viewers can use without needing a web...
Mobile web 'seeing significant shift'
20th April 2009
The mobile internet is seeing a significant change in the way in which content is created and published for the medium, according to one expert.Speaking to the BBC, Jennifer Pahlka of TechWeb explained that web developers used to create sites and applications for the desktop web first before...
Android 'could capitalise on Windows 7 app limit'
20th April 2009
The new Android operating system (OS) from Google could take advantage of Microsoft's proposed applications limit for Windows 7, it has been suggested.Microsoft intends to offer a starter pack OS at a discount price that only allows three apps to run concurrently, according to...
"Strong" growth predicted for Android OS
17th April 2009
The Android mobile operating system will have a good year over the next 12 months, it has been claimed.Speaking at a conference call for Google's first quarter financial results, chief executive of the search engine Eric Schmidt said that "it looks like Android is going to have a very strong...
Rising web connections 'are a social revolution'
17th April 2009
The fact that more British households are now connected to the web than ever before is an indicator of "the biggest social revolution" in ten years.This is according to Andrew Taylor of the Financial Times, who noted that figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 61 per...
Concerns raised over mobile TV growth
17th April 2009
A new report has suggested that growth within the mobile TV sector is starting to slow.According to Screen digest, the proportion of 3G subscribers using mobile TV services fell from four per cent to 2.75 per cent.Furthermore, mobile TV accounted for 1.3 per cent of all mobile data revenues last...
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