On the British website to users have allowed to choose adv

The British web portal SeeSaw on which it's possible to look channels from various TV channels, has allowed to choose adv to the users.

Your Advertising, the Sir!

As Techradar writes, before viewing TV on the screen of the user there is a list from three advertising company, the visitor of a website should choose one of them. Such system is called Ad Selector.

In SeeSaw underline that Ad Selector it's favourable both to advertisers, and users. Because of such format advertisers are interested in creating high level TV adv. SeeSaw underline that the Ad Selector it's favourable both to advertisers, and users. Because of such format advertisers are interested in creating high level TV adv.

Web portal SeeSaw is shown in a Internet of the program and transfer of English-speaking TV channels. A part from them it's possible to look free of charge, but for a part is necessary to pay. On a website it's underlined that all content is laid out lawfully.

Ad Selector Demo

To inhabitants of the UK have promised the superfast Internet

Each inhabitant of the Great Britain can be connected to the superspeed broadband Internet - with such pre-election pledge the prime minister of the country Gordon Brown has acted, informs BBC News. Thus Brown has not named exact date of performance of this project. The Prime minister has only noticed, that by 2020 the country becomes the world leader in the field of digital economy.

The telephone tax finances the Internet

The Labour party initiative will be financed at the expense of introduction of the tax to telephone lines at a rate of 6 pounds a year. Gordon Brown also has promised to create a uniform portal of the state services which will allow inhabitants of the country to operate, in particular, pension savings, to pay municipal taxes and other delights of bureaucratism.

Labour stimulation

Distribution of the broadband Internet, according to labourites, will promote trade development, reduction in price and improvement of quality of the state services. This measure will allow all inhabitants of the country to participate in development of the electronic government that will make state services by more effective. Labourites recognised, that for achievement of these purposes it is necessary for state to stimulate advancement of the fast Internet in the remote areas of the country.

To British will offer the superspeed Internet

Provider Virgin Media belonging to billionaire Richard Branson, is intended by the end of 2010 to offer the British clients access to the Internet for the speed in 100Mbit/sec. On it informs British edition T3.

High-speed Internet by Virgin Media

It in 24 times faster the average speed offered by competitors. For achievement of object in view Virgin Media uses the expanded fibre-optical network. High-speed Internet connection will allow to download the hour teleprogram in a format of video of high clearness for 30 seconds.

Now the maximum speed of access in Virgin Media is 50Mbit/sec. In total at Virgin Media 4,1 million clients. In January, 2010 offer Virgin Media has tried to interrupt at the price of BT, one of the main competitors of the company.

Google or Virgin Media: Who faster?

In other countries also connect users on superfast channels. So, in the beginning of February Google has promised within the limits of experiment to give the chance to inhabitants of several settlements to leave in the Internet for the speed in 1Gb/sec. It a hundred times more than on the average across the USA. In total experience Google means connection from 50 thousand to a half-million of Americans.

The interactive guidebook to the British history is started

The British library has started project Timelines: Sources from History. The project represents the interactive guidebook to history of the Great Britain from the beginning of XIII century up to now with a selection of various documents and the richest illustrative material. The project has been developed by experts of the British library together with several historians and writers.

Five thematic subsections

Besides a summary chronological axis, in Timelines there are five thematic: "the Policy, the power and revolts", "the Literature, art and entertainments", "the Daily life", "Sacred texts" and "Medicine, a science and technologies".

For schoolboys and students

Also in Timelines it is possible to find out cards, posters, manuscripts of the British writers, maps, patents and many other things. The project is intended first of all for schoolboys and the students studying history, and for their teachers. In the British library count, that Timelines will allow to expand considerably possibilities of studying of history and other social studies.

Earlier British library has opened archive of newspapers of XIX century on the site, and also has digitized and has laid out in public access the collection of a folk music (in total about 2000 hours of sounding).

Earlier national libraries of the different countries had been started some the historical projects similar Timelines (in particular, the World digital library), however any of them could not brag of such completeness and a variety.

British for a year have sent 97 billion SMS

The British owners of mobile phones in 2009 have sent 96,8 billion SMS, that for 23% more than year before. About it it is spoken in report Mobile Data Association (MDA), published on January, 28th. In the report the data received from all cellular operators of kingdom are used.

11 million SMS/1 hour

On the average daily British sent on 265 million short messages that corresponds to 11 million SMS/1 hour. Besides, every day it was sent approximately 1,6 million messages with pictures.

The number of messages in the end of a year has considerably exceeded the day standard. So, in Christmas it has been sent 441,8 million SMS, that for 31 percent there are more than indicators of 2008. On December, 31st 2009 and has been sent on January, 1st, 2010 874 million messages — for 21% more than last New year.

4 SMS/1 day

In 2009 on each inhabitant of the Great Britain it was necessary on 4 SMS/1 day. This indicator four times below American, writes ReadWriteWeb. Each inhabitant of the USA on the average sends 16 SMS, and daily all country sends 4,1 billion short messages.

Exchange SMS all becomes more active from year to year. In 2008 British have sent 78,9 billion SMS (on 17,9 billion more than present indicators), and in 2007 — all 56,9 billion. It is necessary to notice, that number MMS grows much more slowly. The number of multimedia messages for three years has grown only with 449 to 601 million.

The British gangster used Facebook

The British gangster sentenced by 35 years of prison, supervised over criminal grouping from the chamber through social network Facebook, newspaper The Times writes on Sunday, on January, 31st.

Gangsters on the Internet

42-year-old Colin Gunn, considered as one of the most dangerous criminals in the Great Britain, within at least two months had an easy approach in Facebook. "In friends" at the gangster 565 users were registered.

Correspondents The Times which has familiarised with correspondence Hannah in Facebook, have informed, that the gangster, in particular, repeatedly threatened with punishment to the ill-wishers who have bailed.

According to the edition, the gangster has received access to a social network with the permission of prison administration where that serves time for the organisation of double murder. The account of the gangster in Facebook has been closed only on Friday, on January, 29th after it became known about the preparing publication in The Times.

In access it is authorised...

The Minister of Justice of the Great Britain has declared, that the prisoner forbids access to social networks, and the gangster could not receive the permission to using Facebook from prison administration. However the experts interrogated by the edition, notice, that the administration of the British prisons "closes eyes" on the facts of access of prisoners in social networks to avoid every possible charges in infringement of the rights serving time.

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To the British schoolboys will show only useful video

In the Great Britain have developed the special filter for site YouTube which will allow to use a video portal for teaching at schools. As newspaper The Times, cost specially developed for this purpose Bloxx Media Filter writes makes from 2,5-10,000 pounds sterling a year depending on number of served computers.

Very high degree of a filtration

Earlier on all school British computers schools installed the filter which completely blocks access to YouTube. Was considered, that on a site it is too much the videoclips containing frank scenes and scenes of violence. However teachers complained, that cannot use many useful educational materials which are available on YouTube. It is a question, in particular, of videorecordings of research experiments which are too dangerous for carrying out in a class with children, about scenes from classical statements of Shakespearean plays and about other informative materials.

Bloxx Media Filter, besides a filtration of videoclips, cuts from them the user comments, and also automatically generated list of links on similar videos.

Bloxx Media Filter for the British schools — the expensive pleasure

Representatives of public organisations under the control over an expenditure of budgetary funds have already stated concern too high, in their opinion, by the filter.

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