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Dan Worth is the news editor for V3.co.uk, having previously worked as a reporter on the site since November 2009.
Before joining V3.co.uk, Dan worked as a journalist covering communications technology, data handling and resilience in the emergency services sector on the BAPCO Journal. Prior to this, Dan studied English and History at Cardiff University followed by a post-graduate degree in journalism.
Dan's main coverage areas are telecoms, mobile operators, ISPs, broadband and wireless technologies, government technology strategy and networks.
Eric Schmidt has defended Google’s UK tax payments, saying the firm operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of spend in the country. The Public Accounts Committee says Google paid £6 million in taxes from revenues of £396 million
Google's revised privacy policy is under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and five other European agencies. The search giant has so far refused to take any action to appease privacy and data protection concerns.
Google has submitted a response to the European Commission. Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia confirmed that Google submitted the documents just in time for the deadline set by the EC. No details of the response have been made public.
Google has announced that it will be rolling out an overhaul to its image search function. This will provide a more prominent display space for selected images and a new scrolling function to make it easier to look at results.
Google controlled 88.35 percent of the search market in December, down from 89.12 percent the month before and down from 91.15 percent in December 2011. But Google's huge share, at almost nine-tenth of the entire UK market, underlines its dominance.
Google's search market share in UK is much bigger than USA. However, new data from web tracking firm Experian Hitwise found that Google's share of search queries in October 2012 dropped by one percent for a second consecutive month.
Google has announced another upgrade to its Google Drive storage and sharing tool that will allow users to post information directly into their Google+ accounts to share information such as presentations, PDFs, videos and other data with colleagues.
The ongoing battle between Apple and Google for supremacy in the mobile market is the "defining fight" in the industry, says Google's Executive Chairman. Eric Schmidt also said Apple has learned "maps are hard" and they should have kept Google Maps.
Search giant Google has begun warning users that their accounts could be at risk from government-organized cyber-attacks as the firm looks to educate users of the risks they face on the web. The messages began appearing on Tuesday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has issued a rare apology, admitting that its new Maps tool with iOS 6 isn't good enough. Cook even went as far as to recommend users download rival services to their devices while improvements in its own tool are worked on.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is aiming to resolve its antitrust investigation into Google's search practices by the end of the year. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says that the organization is working to have an outcome as soon as possible.
Google received almost more than 5.6 million URL search removal requests in the last month, according to the latest update to Google's Transparency Report Page. Weekly requests peaked the week of Aug. 13 with 1.49 million URL removal requests.
Olympic-related searches increased 10-fold in the first week of the Games, as people around the world kept up with results on the move. Olympics-related searches were mobile 46 percent of the time in the UK and 47 percent of the time in the U.S.
More than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, the social network has revealed in a new SEC filing. That represents 8.7 percent of Facebook's user base. Facebook blames the accounts on duplication, misclassification, and undesirables.
Google has admitted it has discovered more WiFi data collected by its Street View cars that it has failed to delete. Google's WiFi data collection incidents gave the company a huge privacy black eye in numerous countries around the globe.
Bing has announced a number of changes designed to improve the user experience for searchers. Bing said the service improvements include faster page loading times and a greater relevance in search results, as well as some cosmetic changes.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reopened its investigation into Google's Street View Wi-Fi collecting in light of recent revelations that the company was fully aware the technology would grab users' data off Wi-Fi networks.
Yahoo's leadership dramas refuse to die down. Recently appointed chief executive Scott Thompson may have embellished his resume by claiming to hold a degree in accounting and computer science, when the degree was actually just for accounting.
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a whopping $550 million deal under which the social networking giant will be given the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio that Microsoft acquired from AOL.
Google's Android system isn't "critical" to the company's success, although it's an "important" part of its future, according to testimony this week from Google CEO Larry Page as the company tries to defend itself in its legal battle with Oracle.
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