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Reality-Show mit Kindern kein Jugendschutzbruch
The Hotog Magazine! ....oder wie ich die Dinge sehe! | October 20th 2009 by Hotdog
Mit "Boys and Girls Alone" sorgt Channel 4 für Aufregung in Großbritannien (Foto: channel4.com) “Boys and Girls Alone” – Keinerlei Beweise für unnötige Quälerei London (pte/20.10.2009/06:05) – Die britische Med read more
UK mobile networks getting ready for London 2012 Olympics
Broadband News and Information Source | October 20th 2009
UK telecom regulator, Ofcom has come up with plans to manage mobile and wireless networks to support the various events during London 2012 Olympics. The seven week-long events and the subsequent Paralympics are expected to be the most technology-enab read more
Ofcom To Pinch Spectrum For Olympics. Thiefs.
Random Man Blog | October 20th 2009 by Random Man
Due to the massive bandwidth required for all the walkie talkies, cameras, RFID chips etc etc. that will be in and around London during the Olympics, Ofcom have had to come up with a plan to increase the available spectrum for all the camera’s read more
Inilah yang Sering Dilakukan Pria dan Wanita di Internet
just call me Ag | October 19th 2009 by jasadh
Pengguna situs jejaring social usia dewasa kini semakin bertambah mencapai dua kali lipat dalam dua tahun terakhir, menurut sebuah penelitian dari literature media Ofcom’s UK Adults. Dari sumber yang sama, diketahui bahwa wanita lebih banya read more
Charlie Brooker | Why there was nothing ‘human’ about Jan Moi…
Me, Myself and I | October 18th 2009 by christian viklund
Check out this article about Jan M0irs lovely gaybashing article in the Daily Mail. Good work Charlie… Know a lot of gay people and thought her article was so nasty about Stephen Gately, yepp kick on the dead guy, he can’t answer back. read more
Mobile Broadband Speed Boost
Mobile Broadband Internet | October 18th 2009 by alx
The speed and availability of mobile broadband services across the UK is set to be improved and extended as a result of government plans for new radio spectrum auctions that will bring coverage to 99 per cent of the population. As part of its commitm read more
Nobody Benefiting from Advertised Broadband Speeds in UK
A Blog About Reverse Phone Lookup Services | October 16th 2009 by Faclez
With competition in the broadband market extremely tough at present most Internet Service Providers are keen to try and tempt customers from rival companies through a range of means and this includes dangling tempting headline broadband speeds in fro read more
UK Mobile Broadband Set For Big Increase
PinStack.com - Smartphone Professionals Alliance | October 16th 2009 by Hayden James
via Computing.co.uk: "The speed and availability of mobile broadband services across the UK is set to be improved and extended as a result of government plans for new radio spectrum auctions that will bring coverage to 99 per cent of the populat read more
Another day, another survey: Ofcom shows (UK) social media 'surge…
This is Herd | October 16th 2009 by Dirk Singer
According to Ofcom, 38% of UK Internet users now have a profile on a social network, up from 22% in 2007. However when you break these figures down more, that equates to 28% of all adults having a social media presence (based on UK Internet penetr read more
Increasing UK Web Users Go Online For Health Issues Reveals Ofcom
Technology Watch | October 16th 2009
In what can be seen as another evidence of the increasing importance of internet in our lives, a new report published by media regulator Ofcom, has revealed that nearly 48 percent people use the internet to find more about health related issues. read more
Linked thoughts
Telling Lives - digistories | October 15th 2009 by Barrie Stephenson
Some thoughts on things I’ve seen for October 15th from 12:15 to 12:15: UK adults’ media literacy | Ofcom – Interesting comparisons in this report to previous surveys carried out by OFCOM addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww read more
X Factor's Dannii Minogue draws almost 4,000 complaints to Ofcom
My Complaint-A place where people can complain about ALMOST… | October 14th 2009 by yolanda rozo
The media regulator Ofcom has received almost 4,000 complaints from members of the public about The X Factor judge Dannii Minogue's comment about contestant Danyl Johnson's sexuality on Saturday night. Ofcom has received a total of 3,885 complaints a read more
Google’ı çocuklara sorun!
Web Tasarımcı - Grafik Tasarımcı Gelişim Bloğu - Tekno… | October 13th 2009 by murat
Çocukların sorulara verdiği cevaplar bazen çok komik olabiliyor: İşte çocuk gözüyle Google. Ofcom’un İngiltere’de gerçekleştirdiği yeni bir araştırma, çocuklar ve Google arasındaki ilişkiyi, çocukların Google’ı read more
Starting out with Samknows
Optical Reflection | October 12th 2009
Today I started a new gig — writing news for the website www.samknows.com. My brief is to expand the coverage of the news section to include broadband issues in Europe and the US. The website already does a good job of covering broadband news fro read more
Daily Twitter Updates
OnlyDanno | October 11th 2009
Have just woken and am a little shocked to hear the Stephen Gateley news. # I saw Stephen Gately play Joseph once & it struck me how underated he was. He was very good & destroyed all my preconceptions. Very sad. # Who had 12 minutes past read more
Dzieci i media (UK)
24per7 | October 11th 2009
Brytyjska agencja Ofcom przygotował raport dotyczący konsumpcji mediów przez dzieci w UK. Jeden rozdział jest poświęcony internetowi.Raport jest dostępny tutaj. read more
Dannii
incurable hippie's musings and rants | October 10th 2009
I've just made a complaint to OFCOM about a comment made by Dannii Minogue on X Factor tonight. After one singer - Danyl - finished his song she made a comment which essentially 'outed' him.Firstly, his sexuality, whatever it may be, is entirely irre read more
Print declining in influence but not dead yet while TV still reig…
This is Herd | October 10th 2009 by Dirk Singer
A fascinating study carried out by TargetCast in the US confirms that print media is on the way out, but that the day of reckoning might be some way away yet. Just over 50% of consumers aged 18-24 agreed that they'd rather get their news online. H read more
Adventures with chance music
On An Overgrown Path | October 10th 2009
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my chance music adventure on Future Radio. One of the pilot programmes is now available streamed from the station's website. Open this link and the programme is identified in the list as Chance Music 10 Oct 2009. T read more
İngiltere Raporu: Her 3 çocuktan biri ilk arama sonuçlarını…
SEOmium | Güncel SEO, Web, SEM ve Pazarlama Makaleleri | October 9th 2009 by SEOmium International
Birleşik Krallık‘taki medya standartlarını belirleyen ve bizdeki RTÜK benzeri bir kurum olan Ofcom‘un 12 ila 15 yaşındaki çocuklar arasında yaptığı bir araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre araştırmaya katılanların %32’ read more
Google marginally more truthful than Wikipedia: British teenagers
Retro Yakking - Complaints of a Northerner | October 8th 2009 by Dan Farrimond
A new report by Ofcom seems to suggest that British schoolchildren use Google as a kind of 21st century 8-ball. Remember those things? You asked a question, rolled the ball and got a randomly selected answer from a pool of generic responses such a read more
80% Of British TV’s Are Digital
Gadget Reviews | October 8th 2009 by Ninja Guy
There is an estimated 60 million televisions in the UK (average household has 2.4 TV’s), and according to Ofcom 80% of those are Digital TV’s. A surge in uptake means the majority of us are now ready for the switch over from analogue taki read more
Google The Truth Engine – 1 In 3 Children Believe So (Ofcom)
Hobo SEO Company Scotland | October 7th 2009 by Shaun Anderson
Free Search Engine Optimization Blurbs By Hobo. Google The Truth Engine – 1 In 3 Children Believe So (Ofcom) A UK OfCOM report discovered that 32% of 12- to 15-year-olds believed Google & other major search engines rank pages in the resu read more
Mobile Phone Coverage Tests For Customers, Watchdog Advises Try-B…
Mobile Phone News From Omio | October 7th 2009 by Matt Wheeler
The woe of buying a brand new phone only to get poor mobile phone coverage could be over, if recommendations from the Communication Consumer Panel are enforced. With Ofcom research showing 56% of consumers are unhappy about the service from their ne read more
Granny's skeleton service, hopefully kicking again soon
Granny Buttons | October 7th 2009
It's been a difficult month for me, trying to sort out my house move, becoming a resident of Derbyshire, leaving my Norfolk flat, yet still trying to work in Norfolk. Grannybuttons has taken a back seat and I've got myself in a tangle read more
British Telecom admits: ‘We don’t have a phone’
BT Complaints | October 6th 2009 by Sig Simons
Telecoms giant BT has admitted that it had its own phones disconnected in 1998 because of nuisance calls from customers. The company’s extraordinary admission came after a team of disgruntled business users worked round the clock in shifts for four read more
International roaming charges using Dynamic Mobile Least Cost Rou…
03 numbers | October 6th 2009 by noel liverton
A recent Ofcom report identified that International roaming charges were reduced on average by 13.6% in the year 2008/2009. This is indeed encouraging news on the face of it but when you consider that international roaming charges start from a very h read more
Johann Hari: If we care about the BBC, we must fight to defend it…
a textual tapestry of articulated tangents; the blog of some… | October 5th 2009 by crowth
Johann Hari: If we care about the BBC, we must fight to defend it - The Independent: This summer Ofcom – Britain’s broadcasting regulators – found Murdoch’s BSkyB guilty of effectively pricing other companies out of the pay-TV market. David read more
03 Numbers – Clarity or Confusion?
03 numbers | October 4th 2009 by noel liverton
03 Numbers were introduced by Ofcom in March 2007 after a lengthy consultation process. However, the uptake on these numbers has been slower than anticipated as a result of a number of events that have occurred in the telecoms market. Here we examine read more
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