Yesterday afternoon we were at the House of Lords for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards ceremony. It was a fitting finale for what has been a fantastic competition packed full of incredible individuals working for equally amazing projects.
As well as recognising all twelve regional finalists, each of whom will receive a £5,000 grant for their [...]
Silver surfers catching up with younger generations
Despite not having grown up with computers or internet access, new research conducted by TalkTalk and F-Secure has found that the older generations are catching up when it comes to their internet use.
Nine out of ten UK residents over the age of 60 who use the internet go online every day, with 68 per cent [...]
And the 2011 Digital Heroes Awards regional winners are…
Having whittled down the hundreds of entries for this year’s Digital Heroes Awards to a final 37 from across the UK in October, it was down to the Great British public to decide which projects would win the title of Digital Hero in our 12 regions and collect a £5,000 technology grant.
As always, we were not disappointed by the support for our nominees, with tens of thousands of people from across the UK casting their votes in what has been another very competitive year.
Child internet safety in the news
Child internet safety has been in the news again this week following a spam attack of indecent images on a social network. While this instance was due to malicious hacking, our Life Online research has shown that the risks of exposing children to inappropriate content is very real:
• 17% of six year olds and 39% [...]
Our half year performance
Today, we release our Interim results for the 6 months to 30 September 2011 showing how we’re delivering our strategy. We’re reporting increased earnings and dividend, more customers added to our network, improving customer experience, significant progress on upsell into Plus, HomeSafe and Boosts and how we’re on track to launch YouView TV service [...]