UK Internet

When Was the Last Time You Switched Off Your Smartphone?

Mark Hillary | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Tech
Mark Hillary

Technology is converging and creating a perfect storm that will stunt attention spans and rob us of lazy free time to think. When was the last time you actually did nothing at all and just sat thinking about a place you want to visit, a film you could direct better than Tarantino, or a story you could write that would sell more than the Fifty Shades trilogy?

How Long Until Our Entire Lives Go Digital?

Charlotte Ballantyne | Posted 26.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Charlotte Ballantyne

Children are growing up entirely computer literate, which will be beneficial in our modern, digital world, but really, why do eight year olds need smart phones? Children should spend their youth discovering the world first hand, exploring what is around them, and not doing it through a screen.

Downloads, E-Books and Computer Games Still Seen as Second Best to Old World Retail

Martin Newman | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK Tech
Martin Newman

Despite the growth of online markets and digital applications the mark of success is still "getting off" the Internet and into "the real world" a gathering of publishers and tech start-ups has been told.

It's About Creating a Virtuous Circle. The UK Is in One But the Public Just Doesn't Know It

Susie Hargreaves | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Tech
Susie Hargreaves

The ComRes poll told us that our mission is correct; 96% of Britons support the removal of criminal content from the internet. All we can do is continue getting better at it, do more, work faster and as the poll shows, actually tell people about it.

A Nation of 'Nethusiasts?

Simon Atkinson | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK Tech
Simon Atkinson

Whether we use the term "digital divide" or not, we need to keep a very keen eye on what's happening below the surface, and how quickly (or not) each segment is changing its behaviour. In time, perhaps we will all be at the digital "promised land".

Java Exploits - Do You Need to Be Worried?

David Emm | Posted 06.05.2013 | UK Tech
David Emm

The targeting of well-known and regularly used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook naturally make the headlines. But Java-based attacks are not solely aimed at large corporations - the issue of cybercrime can be much closer to home for all of us.

This Is Wheel Life

Charles Donovan | Posted 03.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Charles Donovan

Today, I bump into the edges of doorways. While stretching to pick up one thing, I manage to drop several others. I reverse into tables. I crash into entrances and misjudge distances. There is so much to learn about wheelchairs. I cannot think where to start.

If Sinatra Quit Twitter...

Robin Flavell | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Robin Flavell

I blocked the tw*ts, and took the LOLs Yes, I hash-tagged, and humble-bragged, and tweeted my way

Star Student Had Visited 'Suicide' Forums And Ordered Drugs Online

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.02.2013 | UK

A shocked coroner has called for a crackdown on online drugs suppliers after hearing how a gifted teenager took her own life. Nigel Meadows called ...

Will New gTLDs such as .App, .Money, .Beauty and .Accountants Replace the .COM Internet by 2015?

Adam Grunwerg | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Tech
Adam Grunwerg

The way businesses and consumers use the Internet could drastically change in 2013 as ICANN prepares to launch over 1,000 new gTLDs (Generic Top-Level...

The Internet Can't Help You With Everything

Matthew Floyd Jones | Posted 25.04.2013 | UK Comedy
Matthew Floyd Jones

When it comes to relying on the internet to help you with your career, though, bear this in mind: it's one thing for someone to look back on their journey and retrospectively wax lyrical about how they read the map, but to someone on the brink of their personal odyssey, these stone-carved 'How-to's might just throw their instincts off the scent.

Can Iceland Ban Internet Porn?

Nicci Talbot | Posted 26.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Nicci Talbot

The ban will aim to censor 'violent' and 'hateful' porn that demeans women - a great idea in principle but who will decide what constitutes 'violent' and 'hateful' porn? Where does it leave non-vanilla sex - BDSM and other alternative genres? The US website Gawker quotes Justice Potter Stewart who said of hardcore pornography in a Supreme Court obscenity case: "I know it when I see it." Which is a worry.

Facebook: The Politics of Defriending

Melissa Steel | Posted 21.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Melissa Steel

I won't go into the suspected reasons for my abandonment in detail here, but it is probably because I am a coarse, cackling hag, whose only social aspiration is to become a respected sloth wrangler with an unlimited supply of gin, but I digress.

Scott's Seven Simple Steps to Genealogy Society Success!

Scott Phillips | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK
Scott Phillips

Some of the genealogy societies I belong to are doing an awesome job. Some I can say from my experience are doing not quite so awesome. Some I find downright frustrating. As a result of this and my twenty years in nonprofit fundraising and marketing I offer the following seven simple steps to Genealogy Society Success (at least from Scott's point of view).

Red Stripe Makes A Call On VW Ad

Jonathan Heath | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Tech
Jonathan Heath

VW followed up their wildly successful Darth Child advert from last year with an ad showing a Volkswagon driver affecting a Jamaican accent and exuding the type of island charm and relaxed approach to life that only the tropics, or a ride in a new VW can bring you.

What Black Mirror Episode Be Right Back Says About Us and Technology

Daniel M. Swain | Posted 13.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Daniel M. Swain

The latest episode of Black Mirror, Be Right Back, is both a haunting vision of the future, and of what our relationship with technology could become. It is also a reminder of how our relationship with technology has changed since the mid-twentieth century.

Native Applications are Dead

Dan Weisbeck | Posted 10.04.2013 | UK Tech
Dan Weisbeck

In this world of ever-growing choice around mobile devices and operating systems, there is an increasing desire for companies to stitch together a patchwork quilt of options to deliver a seamless, consistent and universal web experience for consumers.

Fancy Some 'Lasagneigh?' Online Jokers Mock Findus Products

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.02.2013 | UK

Spare a thought for the Findus PR department, after the news that some of the company's lasagnes were full of horse meat. The company has been subj...

The Battle for Minds in Syria

Jawad Yaqub | Posted 08.04.2013 | UK Politics
Jawad Yaqub

That people in Syria are dying is obvious: a casual eye cast over the newstands confirm what we all suspect. The society there is being torn apart thr...

Is Your Teenager Playing With Fire?

Jon Brown | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK
Jon Brown

We are increasingly hearing from worried teenagers who know photographs of them are out there somewhere on the internet, being passed from person to person. Often they end up in the hands of adult sex offenders; paedophiles.

Twenty-four Thousand Children and Young People Declare Their Rights and Responsibilities for Safer Internet Day

Will Gardner | Posted 06.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Will Gardner

In order to deliver a safer internet in the future, we must take a holistic approach to internet safety across industry, educators, families and young people.

From Dull Existence to a Life Worth Living - How Technology Can Transform Old People's Lives

Hannah Gal | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK Tech
Hannah Gal

Countess immobile elderly people miss going to church, shops, the supermarket and the library. Eighty six year old Margaret tells me how her deteriorating eye sight meant she had to give up driving and 'my freedom' several years ago, 'I still haven't come to terms with it' she adds. 

Where Now for the Draft Communications Data Bill?

Jamie Bartlett | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Politics
Jamie Bartlett

Not all of us were relaxing over Christmas: Home Office officials working on the draft Communications Data Bill were probably quite busy. Following the Scrutiny Committee's report on the Bill, the Prime Minister promised a redraft. So what now? Here's my advice to the Home Office on the changes needed if this Bill is to be passed this session.

Privacy, A Decade On

Arjen Kamphuis | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Tech
Arjen Kamphuis

Terrorism is obviously the "access all areas pass" - but many more Europeans die slipping in the shower or from ill-fitting moped helmets than from "terrorism".

It's Life Jim, but Not as We Knew It...

Geoff Mulgan | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Tech
Geoff Mulgan

The once science fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly becoming a widespread reality.