Since I don’t drive, whether I eat or not is reliant on a supermarket delivering to my door. As part of an advertising campaign by ASDA earlier this year, statistics from the independent grocery shopping website mySupermarket.com were used to prove that ASDA were cheaper than Tesco on hundreds of items, despite an identical television campaign by Tesco claiming the same about them compared to ASDA just a few months prior. In fact, the Tesco price checker is still online [...]

Just when we thought that Facebook could not put a foot wrong, rather like Google of the first five years, they overstepped the mark with Beacon and now James over at The Laboratorium has come up with interesting reasoning to condemn Facebook and Blockbuster for breaking the law by collecting and distributing video rental information in an ‘opt-out’ scheme, incriminating stuff. And if the sums of Mark from Mashable are anything to go by, the two companies could be in [...]

With TV-Links being raided and shut down in a blaze of glory, it leaves us to ponder the question, who is next? This weekend, TV-Links.co.uk was closed down in a joint operation between multiple European police forces, FACT, Trading Standards and other government agencies, for being an intermediary to copyright theft. Whilst “Sin”, from Cheltenham, Gloucs, owner and creator of the website, was spending his weekend at Her Majesty’s pleasure, police in the Netherlands were pulling plugs on servers hosting [...]

Direct2Dell, the corporate weblog of the Dell computer company has announced that they are to roll out Linux pre-installed systems outside of the United States, available to order immediately. Ubuntu 7.04 will be factory pre-installed and, because of the wide hardware compatibility with the OS, the systems will be almost completely identical in hardware configuration to Dell’s Windows offerings. If you see the below configurations, built using Dell.com/uk, you will notice that both are almost exactly the same, the one [...]

Blackle is the energy saving search site. Based on Google, the customised engine uses black as its primary colour scheme, which is apparently more energy effective. According to their website, they have already saved approximately 96,728 watt hours of electricity. This is all based on the theory that a black background use less light to output the a bright colour (ie. white) and thus less power, which is a fact, in CRT monitors. However, on LCD screens it will have [...]