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Ofcom is recommending that broadband providers rethink the misleading term “up to” when advertising internet speeds, after witnessing a disconnect between the high speeds ISPs promote and the crawling speeds customers generally get. The regulator looked at 11 broadband packages from Britain’s seven top ISPs, including BT, Virgin, Sky and TalkTalk. The thorough examination involved 18 million separate performance tests, ...

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Apple and Microsoft are locking horns over the trademark of the term “App Store”, with the Cupertino Mac-maker fighting back against Microsoft’s complaint that the term is too generic to be owned. In January, Microsoft filed an objection to Apple’s US application for the App Store trademark, on the grounds that “‘app store’ is generic for retail store services featuring ...

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Apples online store goes offline in preparation for the release of the new iPad.

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Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is considering the introduction of a service that would let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones, according to two people with knowledge of the project. The company’s Amazon Payments unit is exploring whether to start a service based on so-called near-field-communication technology, said the people, who asked not to be named because ...

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We stumbled upon these photos on a number of technology blogs, we can’t be absolutely certain that the device in the photos is a legitimate iPad 2. The so called ‘mock-up’ has been procured in China (no suprise there…) the specification of the mock-up seems to not be very indifferent to the rumours regards up and coming specification. All will ...

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Volkswagen has “reinterpreted” the Microbus as an electric vehicle. With four doors. And an iPad. It’s called the Bulli, which is what Germans called the Microbus when it appeared in 1950. Aside from the bench seats, two-tone paint and oversized badge, this concept has little in common with the Transporter that inspired it. Well, that’s not quite right. The Bulli ...

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“Congratulations, nerds.” That might have been the upbeat theme of last night’s Oscars, where a co-host live-tweeted from backstage, ABC hosted an online party at Oscars.com concurrently with the televised ceremony, and a presenter made a scripted “app” joke. But instead, those two words from James Franco were a deadpan reaction to the winners of this year’s scientific & technical ...

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There were reports late last week that Jonathan Ive, the man behind the design of all recent Apple products, may be about to quit his job and move back to the UK. It is being suggested that Ive wants to go home so his two children can have an education in the UK. But the Apple board has said if ...

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Googles GMail has become very unreliable the last few days as emails correspondents are missing from Inboxes.  We are all buying into Cloud computing and the Software as a Service market, but we however are unaware of if our data is being handled with care?  Google says that the issue “affects less than .29% of the Google Mail user base ...

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YouTube Map My Summer [youtube.com] is a new YouTube experiment that tries to provide a more meaningful interface to recently submitted Australian videos. In the end, the project should create a compelling archive of the events, experiences and people from all around Australia during summer (remember, it is summer now down under).

In essence, the project tries to filter the related metadata according to the categories Activity, People or Place, while it maps all the videos on a (unfortunately invisible…) map of Australia. As a result, people can discover those specific videos that take place on a beach, show extraterrestrials, or somehow relate to a wedding. In addition, statistical data about the submitted movies according to their geographical location can be discovered through interactive donut graphs that are colored according to the three categories.

Via Visualising Data.

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Auto maker BMW recently established a New York-based venture capital firm dubbed BMW i Ventures that it seeded with $100 million to seek out partnerships that might facilitate BMW-i product adoption in urban markets. BMW-i is a BMW sub-brand solely focused on developing and producing sustainable mobility vehicles. Its first investment was made public this week: BMW pumped $5 million ...

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As the popularity of mobile apps skyrockets, it’s not surprising that the barrier to entry for creating them is getting lower. On Android we’ve already seen Google’s own App Inventor make life easier for would-be developers. Now AppsGeyser is turning app development into something that literally anyone can do. Let’s be clear before we start, this isn’t going to let ...

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