Almost 11 million consumers have suffered a broadband blackout lasting more than three hours over the last year, with Nottingham named Britain’s “outage capital”. The average UK household lost a total of almost two days of internet time as a result of loss of service, power cuts and maintenance, figures show. Homes hit by outages […]
Spotify appears to have introduced a new karaoke feature that rates listeners’ singing. Users of the streaming service have spotted the feature which allows them to sing along to tracks by turning down the song’s original vocals and providing lyrical prompts. Those who have used the feature say the app gives them a score out […]
End-to-end online sales of passenger vehicles (PVs) have seen an upswing in the last three years as Covid-related disruptions led companies to focus more on such channels and customers getting more comfortable with the idea. Some car manufacturers started basic online channels in 2019, which were sharpened during 2020-2021, and today, sales through the medium […]
A major outage at content delivery network Cloudflare caused hundreds of websites across the internet to stop working and return a ‘500 Internal Server error’ message this morning. A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed group of severs around the world that work in unison. Websites use these CDNs to deliver content from the […]
Apple misled users over an upgrade that actually slowed iPhones’ batteries, a tribunal will be told, and 25 million British users could be eligible for hundreds of pounds each if a consumer champion wins a legal claim launched today. Justin Gutmann, a campaigner who formerly worked for Citizens Advice, has issued a £768 million claim […]
Hybrid Working is reshaping not only the future of work but also the present. Ronan Copeland, GVP General Manager, EMEA, DocuSign explores how the right digital tools drive employees to create, innovate, and collaborate better. No one can deny the last two years fundamentally changed the world of work. Offices and workspaces closed in favour […]
New research has revealed that a third of UK office workers experience problems with their workplace technology which, on average, can take over three days to be replaced. What does this mean for already struggling IT departments when 8 in 10 people in the UK agree that flexible working is here to stay? Simply put, […]
Digital transformation isn’t a new imperative for business leaders, but Covid-19 has made it a more urgent one, with firms looking to enhance their agility, speed, and data-driven decision-making. At the recently held Sapphire conference in Orlando, Florida, German enterprise software maker SAP announced innovations in four critical areas that will help its customers accelerate […]
All phones and tablets must use the same charging ports, the EU has agreed. A new agreement will force all companies to make USB-C the common charging port on all their smaller electronic devices by Autumn 2024, the EU has announced. Laptops will be required to use the port some time after that. The ruling […]
Another round of tussle between the government and social media firms like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc, may be in the offing as the former plans to further tighten intermediary rules by constituting grievance appellate committees. These committees would look into complaints relating to blocking of content or accounts by social media firms. “The central government […]