Toyota’s plug-in Prius hybrids goes into testing across the globe, on sale in 2011
No surprise that as an owner of a Toyota Prius Hybrid I am excited about the news that the PHEV (plug in Hybrid) may be on sale as early as …
115,000 nabbed for in-car calling
More than 115,000 people in England and Wales got fixed penalties for being on the blower whilst driving in 2007, dropping off from the 2006 peak of almost 160,000.
Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK
Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV
UK broadband ‘not ready for tomorrow’
Britain’s broadband networks have been ranked 31st out of 66 countries in terms of quality
Adidas and Puma end 60-year feud
The German sportswear companies Puma and Adidas are to end a feud started 60 years ago by their founding brothers.
Blogger wins Google victory against holiday firm Thomson
A British holidaymaker has won a refund of nearly £600 from Thomson after setting out his complaints in an internet blog which beat the holiday firm to the top in …
Websites ‘breaking consumer laws’
More than half of websites selling electronic goods were breaking European laws aimed at protecting consumers, according to an EU investigation.