Is this how the movie industry can fight against the online pirates?

With the government and the music industry dead in the water with effective ideas to stop illegal downloading the film industry has remained relatively quiet on the subject and not jumped on the bandwagon of restricted broadband access.
Most in the film industry would be worried by the upsurge in illegal downloading and file sharing added [...]

UK Internet figures – Dec 2009

Facebook – 6hrs 56mins 2secs
Microsoft – 2hrs 35mins 34secs
Ebay – 2hrs 3secs
Google – 1hr 58mins 23secs
Yahoo! – 1hr 39mins 33secs
Apple – 1hr 25mins 55secs
BBC – 1hr 15mins 31secs
Amazon – 35mins 40secs
Wiki – 24mins 53secs
HM Government – 17mins 46secs

Time per person, UK, December 2009
Source – The Nielson Company

Brits increase amount of ad clicks

Nearly one third (31.6%) of the Internet users questioned clicked on Internet advertisements in 2009, compared with 28% of users in 2008, according to a new survey.

Research for Internet Advertising, a new Market Assessment from market intelligence provider Key Note, also reveals that while only 9.2% of users had responded to classified advertisements on [...]

UK braced for O2 100Mbps mobile network test

Whether referring to 4G or LTE, the next generation of mobile networking technology is stirring up interest and speculation and after O2 trialled its own LTE technology in Slough, bringing high speed mobile internet closer than ever.
LTE technology used by O2 is likely to allow for download speeds of up to 100Mbps, which is more [...]

UK Internet ad sector to grow in 2010

The internet ad sector is predicted to increase by 6.9% in 2010, compared with the decline for newspaper, magazine and TV advertising sectors according to a new report from Enders Analysis.
Enders Analysis predicts that while offline media will see less marked negative growth this year compared with 2009, the internet is set to remain the [...]

UK sites with the highest reach online

UK audience reach for top 10 parent companies:

Google – 88%
Microsoft – 80%
Facebook – 57%
Yahoo! – 56%
eBay – 55%
BBC – 54%
Amazon – 43%
Wikimedia – 34%
HM Government – 33%
InterActiveCorp – 30%