Now, for the first time, women in Britain can avoid seeing doctors for their contraceptive pill needs. The contraceptive pill can now be legally obtained on a website; DrThom. The online medical resource offers them under a new service by DrThom that assures three month’s supply for just £29.99.
A simple procedure needs to be followed […]

“Making YouTube profitable” was one of Google’s biggest goals this year. Although half of the year is already over, they have not yet managed to figure out a way to do so. The problem, it seems, is not with the users or traffic that is coming but how to monetise it. Although it seems probable […]

The controversies, which have surrounded Google StreetView ever since it has launched do not seem to end.
This time it is the turn of a small suburb in St. Paul Minnesota named North Oaks. North Oaks is a private city of 4,500 and the community is owned by its residents, even the streets are private property. […]

If the proposed move of opening up the address system is authenticated, the net could undergo one of the most major transformations seen since its inception. The net’s regulators are set to vote on Thursday (June 26) for deciding if the current strict rules on the so-called top level domain names like .com or .uk […]

Yahoo! has been seeing a lot of ups and downs for quite some time. From fighting the Microsoft takeover battle to tilting towards Google, the situation is still uncertain. The uncertainty has only been heightened further, with their important personnel walking away. The person staying back to handle it all is CEO Jerry Yang, who […]

A display advertising platform has been optimised and launched for the travel industry by kayak.com, the travel search engine. Kayak had purchased Sidestep.com in December 2007 and the new ad platform has been based on the technology developed by them.
The new display ad system, much like the text style in Google AdWords, is of help […]

Mozilla has claimed a download record for the Firefox 3.0 release. The software was downloaded over eight million times in the first 24 hours after the web browser was made available, stated its creator Mozilla. Statistics available from the download servers are now being scrutinised to give an official figure, which will be sent to […]

Sta.rtUp.biz, a new social networking website, has all the usual features that are sported by the likes of Facebook and MySpace, such as members’ photographs and detailed profiles. But what is new about the venture is its service that offers small business owners an online platform where they can socialise and network with other fellow […]

The biggest news to come out in the Internet world in the past few days has been of the ‘Non-exclusive’ partnership between internet giants Yahoo! and Google.
A key thing to mull over, while making sense out of this partnership is that it’s ‘Non-exclusive’. Putting the partnership in perspective, Google stated:
Today, we have announced a non-exclusive […]

LinkedIn, a networking website for business-oriented people and professionals, claims that it is already profitable. To add to that, it has received a fresh round of funding. The money will be used for making acquisitions and expanding its overseas operations.

PX Software UK, a software re-publishing and distribution house, has introduced BitDefender anti-virus software and data security solutions to the UK market.
Just a year old, PX Software is already among the UK’s fastest growing and ambitious software distributors. Its expansion and growth has been phenomenal. PX has expanded its reach from South Africa and Zambia […]

Word has been going round for some time now that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company. Not only this, but, Brin has also reportedly shown interest in making a trip himself within the next three years.
Space Adventures, a US based space tourism company, has already received a $5 million payment […]

For a website, it could hardly appear less exciting. Its pages are loaded with text - much of it a flat blue. There are few photographs and there are absolutely no videos on it. It is LinkedIn, the social network platform for professionals.
The website is not very attractive in terms of design. Unlike MySpace and […]

There is no letup in the growing demand for data centre computing. Take the case of Digital Realty Trust, a data centre landlord that has over 70 facilities. They state that client demand for new space is almost 50 per cent ahead of its capacity for building and equipping data centres for the next couple […]

MySpace boasts an American audience of close to 73 million. (Facebook counts 36 million). According to comScore, worldwide, Facebook tied the former, averaging almost 115 million users for each website for the first time in April. Also, users spend hours on the websites, making them a vital platform for advertisers.
Because MySpace still commands a […]

The acute shortage of skilled IT workers in the UK has created an opportunity for the inmates of London’s largest prison, HMP Wandsworth to acquire IT skills. The Wandsworth prison has the reputation for offering training to its inmates in various fields like industrial cleaning, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, tailoring and painting. It also trains prisoners […]

The NHS trust in Wales has upgraded its laboratory information system at nine locations. This upgrade is the part of the Welsh Assembly Government’s programme under a £1 million contract with Informing Healthcare, signed in September 2007.
The system up-gradation by iSOFT will improve patient care through better application of IT. The version will improve performance […]

HP will soon be replacing BT as the biggest IT supplier to the UK government. This has been made possible by the friendly takeover of EDS by HP for £7bn.
The Kable research, ‘The supplier landscape in the UK public sector marketplace 2007’, indicates that combined ICT spending of £2.235bn with EDS and HP by the […]

A revised version of the popular Firefox Web browser shows noticeable enhancements in features like speed, design as well as security. Many of the new enhancements in Firefox 3 incorporate bookmarks. The new version allows Web surfers to add keywords, or tags, and also to sort bookmarks by topic.
There is a new feature called ‘Places’ […]

Yahoo! has just agreed a deal with search engine giant Google that will incorporate Yahoo! making use of the latter’s advertising technology. Google ads will now appear alongside select Yahoo! search results after the agreement, applicable in the US and Canada.
The announcement was made after Yahoo! stated it had failed in persuading Microsoft to renew […]