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British government draws up Big Brother style communications law
The Telegraph said that the plan has been drawn up on the advice of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ. Rather than the government holding the information centrally, companies including BT, Sky, Virgin Media, Vodafone and O2 would have to keep the records themselves. This would be accessed real time by the spooks. -
HMV on highway to heck
According to Sky, turning its attention towards selling technology products at the majority of its 252 stores, is helping. HMV claimed headphones, speaker docks and tablet computer sales were all on the up at 147 percent. -
UK hands censorship over to barely trained kids
The outfit's lists are used by BT and Skyfor their parental controls, as part of a new government-sponsored code of conduct. -
David Cameron encourages web censorship
David Cameron, who we assume has a private subscription to Jugggz and gets his kicks the old fashioned way, today announced a deal with BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin to block pornography from appearing online. At least, by default. -
Facebook enters spirit of FA Cup with overhyped marketing ploy
The FA meanwhile has no intentions of allowing Facebook to start broadcasting higher level matches yet. They would have to stump some serious cash to rub shoulders with the likes of Sky Sports and ESPN. -
Ye Booke of Mardoch
TechEye Bible1. And there arose amongst the Philistines bands of thuggish mercenaries called Tablet Hacks and they were greatly feared among the Royal Families of the Promised Land. And they were all paid by Dig-Er of Mardoch. 2. -
Businesses use Advertising Standards to grass each other up
We noticed that too, as the comments follow yet another potshot at Virgin Media from its nemesis Sky, which managed to get BT on side too. -
Operators drag heels on Femtocells
"Lots of operators, for example Sky, Virgin and BT internet as well as other internet service providers, can then connect people via fixed points and networks and suddenly this drives a hole new load of competition. It's win, win. -
Why Ballmer bought Skype
TechEye BibleYe Booke of Ballmer Chapt XII: How Ballmer bought the Kingdom of Skype Now Ballmer the son of Gates began to reign over Microsoft in Redmond and reigned ten years. 2. -
America baffled by soccer, social media and Big Brother
Sky News is reporting that Lib Dem MP John Hemming has named Ryan Giggs in the House of Commons "as footballer at centre of injunction -
3D broadcasting drought continues
Despite BSkyB launching 3D channels along with hefty marketing campaigns - which saw 3D football matches broadcast in pubs and gushing reports about the technology featuring in associated newspapers - there's still little in the way of actual 3D broadcast content. -
Japan component shortage destroys Pace shares
Supply problems could be slowly working their way to the customer, as Pace makes set top boxes for Sky. Murdoch's empire could in turn be hit by the shortages, according to one shareholder speaking to TechEye who lost £18,000. -
Microsoft resurrects awful talking paperclip
While we'd hoped the smug know-it-all had been clipped onto the wrong stack of documents and packed off to the Recycling Plant in the Sky, some bright spark at Microsoft has decided to resurrect the bug-eyed coil for the gamifacation of day-to-day Office Suite work, some time around Easter. -
Ofcom demands BT Openreach price cuts
Openreach manages BT's network and charges other providers for the use of its facilities. The proposed changes will mean that other telcos rental costs, including Sky and TalkTalk who rent BT's lines, could be reduced by up to 10 percent per annum. -
British ISPs are not shy about two-tier internet
BT, Sky and Virgin Media have sat down and worked out an industry-wide "code of practice" on how they explain selling "two-speed internet" policies to punters. -
LinkedIn to go public in 2011
LinkedIn may be attempting to get in before Facebook does, as Facebook is also intending to file an IPO, but not until 2012. Its recent investment deal with Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies could push it over the 499 shareholder limit for private firms, however, and force it to go public m -
Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB buy gets green light from EC
AcquisitionNews Corp, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch, has won approval by the European Commission to take over British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) further expanding Murdoch's unholy media empire. -
2011 means continued LTE lag in UK
Other firms such as TalkTalk and Sky are expected to increase their own network coverage which could in turn mean the wider availability of cheaper broadband. TalkTalk is targeting 93 percent population coverage for its own broadband network in the medium term.
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