It is reported that the advertising watchdog have banned two Virgin Media broadband adverts as they misled consumers at prices.

The companies should have given the consumers one month’s written notice of any mid-contract price increases as well as the right to cancel the contact for free since January 2014.

From the figures reported, Virgin Media’s website issued two advertising offers please see the quoted information.one stating : “uSwitch exclusive offer -£50 reward on Big Connection with superfast up to 50 Mb broadband and calls Just £4 a month for 6 months then £17.50 a month + Virgin Phone line (£16.99 a month)… 12 month contract.”

The other said: “Big Bang – £25 a month for 12 months then £32 a month – includes Netflix for 6 months … FREE set-up online only + Virgin Phone line for £16.99 a month.

When the price being raised, there were two customers made complains and Virgin Media replied that the text was misleading. Regarding the response from the company, they told the customers that there should be price raise by using the term “ occasionally” which could make influence on most of the customers.

But they are not sure when or by how much the price would increased at the start of their contract either. Virgin Media told the raise in price was advertised about two months before they have the prices increased, and the raise of price only matter to standard prices instead of promotional prices.

Virgin Media to has been warned by the Advertising Standards Agency to make its prices “clearly and prominently” on the website from now and that former adverts should be disappear in their current form so that not to mislead customers.

The ASA implied that the customers could not choose their offers on the ads if they knew that the monthly cost could increase beyond the ones they saw i

The Agency suggested the Virgin Media should fix the price for the minimum term of the contract or for a certain period of time.

There were online piracy cases happened each year. There were even some famous figures involving piracy. The UK government has willingness to increase the penalty of jail time in order to stop people from turning to online piracy.

BBC News reported that: “at present, the maximum jail penalty for online piracy is two years, however, the jail penalty may could increase up to ten years in accordance with the new plans.”

The government hopes to punish those distributing copies by carrying out the new measures. The new measures are not aimed to those downloading the files from online.

Peter Ratchliffe said that intellectual property theft is crime no matter online or offline.

With the development and popularity of high technology, there are many criminals turning to online crimes in recent decades. So it is fatal that we have strong legal system to protect the copyright online. And it would reflect our motivation towards digital world.

The new measures first proposed by some movie and music companies as they would like to make their work to be deserved and respected. They feel two year’s jail penalty is not strong enough to stop people from piracy.

There was related news concerning ripping CDs and DVDs for personal use came into illegal in the UK. If you are interested in this topic, you can search more news online.

Netflix is hoping to produce more of its own showers and films. According to its CEO, to reach this goal it is required more money from its subscribers. Therefore, it is obviously the company will rise the fee for its subscribers.

Prompt from Reed Hastings, to raise more money to produce original content output, investors are definitely to increase the subscription prices for the next 10 years by providing the streaming service.

The Guardian reported Hastings opinions: “they want to increase the prices gradually, and there will be more content of shows added for the subscribers for the next decade, and the prices will be charged appropriately.”

Hastings continued : “the company also encourage the people to use the two-steam and high-def and the ultra-high-def, but there is not specific plans from the company on how to popular this.”

But we dont see its raise for subscription prices for this quarter recently. It costs $7.99 per month in the US for a standard definition Netflix package, a £5.99 per month in the UK.

Netflix will also have a difficult situation on password sharing in the future, with this feature, the users can create their own accounts instead of sharing them. It is new plans will be also carried out in other countries.

Netflix has 65 million subscribers around the world, and the US subscribers account to 42 million.

However, the cost of third-party television shows and movies earns as 4.6 times as it does. The net revenue of third party television shows and movies reaches at $7.7 bn.

There have been many fitness trackers launched on the market. And the customers have variety options as their favor.There is a new tracker made by former Apple staff.

This new fitness tracker is called Moov Now that wants to coach you into being fit. The new device does not work the same as its rivals such as limited to simply tracking users daily steps counts, calorie burn and distance covered.

For the new wearable device, it works to tab on things, for example, users stride length, pacing to coach them to reach fitness goals while exercising

The fitness tracker works syncing with a specific smartphone app, and it relays live performances either on screen or users headphones to help them to finish the fitness training.

This tracker also has a voice-based guidance that tell users when they need to shorten their stride or pace to reach their goals. A third-party heart rate monitors is supported by the device.

The tracker is not only used for run-tracking. The users can also use it while swimming, bike riding, boxing bouts and walking. It also tells the users the skill how to reach their goals.

The tracker is designed to be dust-proof and water-resistance, so the users can wear them on their wrist or ankle.

Battery life could be a problem that users concern. Users don’t have to worry about its battery length. It promises around six months of use per changeable watch battery.

If you are interested in this device, you can search for its offering online.

Users will be able to download radio programmes to its iPlayer Radio app on BBC iPlayer.

If so, the users can have access to the radio programmes anytime if they have downloaded them on its app. They don’t have to follow the live shows if they like. It will be more convenient with its update.

It is confirmed by BBC that the users can store the shows for 30 days and streamed them conveniently.

In the beginning of this function for downloading radio programmes, there are only TV programmes option provided for the users to download for the trail.

There will be update for apps on iOS,Android and Kindle this week and the update will be finished in time on Friday. There will be a Friday’s start of the BBC Proms on BBC Radio 3.

The company has worked great job to repair its technology used for the BBC’s online audio content in which making the Radio downloads come true.

There are also other changes at broadcaster, including the provisional approval of BBC three moving exclusively online that it may be following the BBC news. You can update your BBC iPlayer this week and witness the amazing experience for downloading radio programmes.

Apple Pay it is said to come to  UK today. Your banking details will keep safe with Apple tech.We will figure out this news later today.

Apple Pay’s banking partner HSBC has confirmed this launch before its official release. So today it is a great day for the customers in UK. The customers will be able to use the Apple Pay on their daily needs currently if the report comes out true.

In answering to customers’ questions on the services’s for the launch. HSBC’s Twitter support teach had confirmed the Apple Pay launch plans. But that post on Twitter has been deleted.

Previous news that Apple confirmed that its mobile payment system will be launching in UK at some date in July, and it was not given a specific date. But many retailers have speculated its launch date for its plans.

There was no confirmation from Apple about its launch date in UK in this week even though there were rumors.

The Apple Pay has been applied in the US for about one year, and this device allows iPhone 6 and Apple Watch users to pay bills by tapping their devices against the related terminals.

To use the Apply Pay, the users need to entrust their banking details to the iPad maker, then they will be able to use Apple Pay to make in-store purchases up to the price of £20.

There was upheaval at Reddit as its CEO Ellen Pao resigned.

Reddit made an announcement on July 10 to confirm this news. And the company appointed its co-founder Steve Huffman as the company’s new chief officer.

Sam Altman revealed that Pao’s resignation came in peace with the company. She made the mutual agreement with the company.

Altman wrote: ” the employees appreciate Ellen’s contributions to the company as well as the technology industry. Ellen brought focus to Chaos, and attracted a world-class team of executives and business growth. She made a great efforts to changed perceptions at Reddit and set a good example in the technology industry.”

Altman continued that Ellen Pao will remain as a advisor to the board at Reddit by the end of 2015. He hopes she could make more useful contributions for the company. And the company is also happy for Steve Huffman’ back. Product and community are two important sections for the company and the board was finding a leader who are both good at these two sections. Steve meets the requirement.

He criticized some Reddit users as their disagreements to Pao during his service in the company.

He pointed out the Reddit community should learn to balance the authenticity and compassion to be a great community. Steve faces much pressure to work as Ellen started to reach this goal.

The users could keep disagreements towards the leaders, but death threats are not allowed. The company will get the threats banned if they continue.

The Reddit bosses made an apology to the community after it fired a popular staff member that caused moderators to revolt.

Several mods set subreddits to private and took other sections of the stei down as Pao fired Victoria Taylor.

If you use Facebook for your social associations, you may find that Facebook has updated its icons for female friends to specific the details.

Caitlin Winner, the social network’s design manager who supports this change. Winner indicates that this updates brings women in front of the male.

In the old version, the female icons were set not so obviously into the background. The mail icons were recognized easily.

With the update, the female icon is now placing in front of the male with more clearly and symmetrical features. As a result, the images can not run into one another.

As for the group logos, it updated with the female silhouette assemble in front of two males, placing a leading role.

Winner stated in a blog post that: ” women receive advanced education now. And the women place important role in social life or personal life. Women is not in a position inferior to men.”

Winner added: ” His first idea of the update icons was to draw a double silhouette with equal sizes of imags without a hard line to differentiate who was in front. After many efforts, Winner gave up this proposal as the failure to make an icon that did not look like a two-headed mythical beast. He finally draw the new icon by placing the lady a little smaller in front of the man.”

Facebook has also changed the typeface of its logo in order to make its app more mobile-friendly in last week.

The Hacking Team that specializes in making surveillance software has been hacked in a cyber attack which is ironically reflection to the Hacking Team.

It is said a large-scale date has been breached during the cyber attack. What is more, the Hackers took over the company’s Twitter feed and changed its account name to ” Hacked Team”.

To prove the cyber attack, the hackers posted the so-called evidence of data breach on Twitter in which emails sent by Hacking Team CEO Vincent Vincenzetti are included.

The critics found that Hacking Team designs softwares which are used to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists. However, the company denied it. The company claims that its software is designed in accordance with law for investigations. If what the critics said come true, it will cause unease situation among its clients of Hacking Team.

Christopher Soghoian who was appointed as Speech, Privacy and Technology project of the American Civil Liberties Union, a long-term critic of the organization revealed the evidence that there was 400 GB of data was stolen during the cyber attack.

The information seized in the data is reported to include a spreadsheet listing contains the Hacking Team’s government clients and also with their transactions.

Uber made up the decision to stop its low-coast UberPOP Service in France as the recent protests against the service’s legality.

The protests become intense between non-professional Uber drivers and standard taxi drivers. It burst out violent riots in Paris last week.

The taxi drivers from other firms protest the San Francisco-based firm of Uber takes advantage of the competitors as the Uber drivers have no need to get a taxi license or training.It is unfair to its competitors. The Uberpop service is against the presence of a law that carried out last year which requiring all drivers to have a professional licensee and insurance.

Based on the case of Germany’s ban last year, the regulators and taxi unions demanded a complete ban on Uber in France, however, Uber has appealed this lawsuit in domestic and EU courts.

Since there is hostility against Uber drivers from other professional drivers, the firm made the decision to temporarily close the service until the Constitutional Court’s decision in September. And the company has stated this decision in a statement.

The company also stated that it will be sorry for 500,000 French UberPOP passengers and those drivers who use this platform. But it stated that Safety comes first for its passengers and drivers.

As the Paris protest evolved, Ubess director general Thibaud Simphal and director for Western Europe Pierre Dimitri Gore Coty were detained in the police station.