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News Archive August 2010

31st August

• BT Claims 5000 Customers Daily Broadband Sign Up
• Gmail Priority Feature To "Revolutionise The Way We Use Emai

27th August

• Google Search Engine More Powerful Than Twitter
• Older Macs Unlikely To Run Firefox 4
• Sharp Rise In Mobile Data Use

26th August

• HP Buys Database Tool Maker Stratavia

25th August

• UK PC Sales Grow In Second Quarter Up 19 Per Cent
• Students Spending More Time Online
• Telecoms Firm Advices Businesses To Shift To IPv6

24th August

• DNSSEC Emerges By Afflias Encrypts Internet Domains
• UK Top Four Of Spam Sending Countries

23rd August

• Men More Likely to Send Inappropriate Work Emails
• Will Foursquare check out now that Facebook has Places?
• Chrome 6 beta adds touch support, location sharing
• Google Pays $10,000 in Bounties
• Google Buys Visual Shopping Engine Like.com

20th August

• Online Sales Hit Three-Year High
• Dell Forecasts Stronger Growth as Profits Rise
• North Korea Twitter Account Banned
• More Dell Thunder Details Emerge
• Nokia to Buy Mobile Analytics Firm

19th August

• Amazon Challenges Cloudy Startups
• FCC Says Broadband ISPs Routinely Exaggerate Connection Spee

18th August

• New Web Broswer On iPad
• IBM Exec Sees Great Potential At Flash Memory Summit
• Deaf Students Test Sign Language on Smartphones

17th August

• Twiiter Adds North Korea To the Blog Millions
• Verizon Talks Up Broadband Service
• LinkedIn Snaps Up SaaS Provider mSpoke

16th August

• US Network Operator Agrees With Google And Verizon
• Government Minister Reneges Pre Election Broadband Promise
• Asus Plans To Launch Eee Tablet In October
• Protesters Denounce Google Plan For 'Two-Tier Internet'

13th August

• PCTs Benefit From New Nationwide System
• Twitter Adds Rapid Sharing Button
• India Latest to Pump RIM for BlackBerry Access
• Oracle Sues Google Over Android OS

12th August

• 10 Per Cent of Web Users Visit Twitter
• Smartphones Drive Mobile Sales Growth
• Twitter's Fast Follow Feature Breathes Life Into SMS

11th August

• Tracking Roadworks in Real Time
• Schmidt's Plan Could Divide Internet

10th August

• Government Will be Fastest Growing IT Sector in 2010

9th August

• Vodafone Angers HTC Desire Owners
• FCC Deal With Google and Verizon Over Net Neutrality
• UK Not Far Behind US on SaaS

6th August

• Google Abandons Wave
• ABI - Smartphones to Make up 25% of Mobile Phones by 2013
• Scuttlepad-First Social Network Only For Youngsters
• Social Media Costs Employers Dearly
• Street Cars Return to UK Roads

5th August

• Google Pulls The Plug On Google Wave
• Top Tech Firms Fail to Make Most Out Of Social Media
• Interent Explorer 9 Preview To Be Released
• Google To Allow Third-Party Trademark Ad Words

4th August

• Intel Settle antitrust case With FTC
• ASA Bans BT Campaign Claims After Complaints

3rd August

• Wikileaks Draws Criticism, Censorship Threats
• Nielson Says Social Networking is Closing in on Email Use
• Drops to 27th Place in Akamai Survey of Internet Speeds
• UK Kindle E-reader Released
• CIOs Use Apps to Understand Customers

2nd August

• Broadband Britain Roadmap Published
• Google Cleared of UK Privacy Breach by ICO
• Gulf States ban Certain Blackberry Functions
• Twitter Gets 300,000 New Accounts Per Day