Category: Internet
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UN Advised to Take Action on ‘Wild West Web’
‘Global controls will have to be imposed and a world governing body will be created to enforce them. Crises precipitate change.’ Okay, you got me, that’s Deltron 3030, but this freedom and social control based story does remind me of the government-busting liberty loving space-rapper himself, Deltron Zero (and Automator). According to Thomas Hammarberg, Council of […]
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1,500 Virgin Media customers infected with virus
Virgin Media has warned around 1,500 of its broadband customers that their PCs or laptops are infected with a harmful Trojan virus. Individual letters were sent out to customers this week explaining that they have unwittingly downloaded a malicious SpyEye Trojan virus. The virus is said to be a keylogger, in that it will record […]
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BBC News app comes to Samsung television sets today
The Beeb has buddied up with Samsung to bring its News app – currently available on PC and smartphone – onto Samsung TV sets from today. The telly app will complement the already existing BBC News channel and its “red button” playback features and will become available on Samsung boxes in what Auntie’s Director of […]
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Facebook app for iPad nearly ready for launch
Official social networking app finally nears completion
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Facebook app store: ‘Project Spartan’ HMTL5 web store set to land on iPhone
Social behemoth set to take Apple on at its own game
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Voice and Image search comes to Google Desktop
Google has announced two new ways to search the web on your PC; Voice and Image search. We’ve seen both Image and Voice search on mobile versions of Google, such as the Android app, but now the functionality will come to desktop browsers. Image search will allow the user to drag an image file from […]
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BBC Broadcasters to get custom iPhone app for Live Reporting
BBC reporters are soon to get a custom iPhone app which will allow them to record live video, audio and still imaging and import it directly into the TV network. Journalism.co.uk reports that the Beeb are well underway with development of a custom app to be used on iPhone and iPad by its reporters, and […]
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Nokia set to close UK and European online stores after disappointing financial period
Reports are breaking that UK’s Nokia web shop will be closing – along with European online outlets in Spain, France and the Netherlands with June 30th as the date set for shutdown. Poor financial results, falling far below estimations and a drop in shares by 15% in the second quarter of 2011 have Nokia set […]
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10-inch Amazon tablet to bring free streaming movies?
Amazon look set to continue the success of its Kindle eReader by launching a full colour tablet – if rumour is to be believed – in the near future, with further word slipping out that the gadget will now support streaming movies. A consumer research company has made this latest claim, suggesting Amazon’s own free […]
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Spotify US launch imminent after streaming service signs deal with Universal
Cloud music company inks deal with three out of four major labels
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Chromebooks ready for pre-order.
Samsung and Acers Chromebooks are ready to go and have been put on pre-order on Amazon and best buy. Both companies revisions of the chromebook are available the Samsung Series 5 and the Acer Cromia. Both are available from Amazon and Best buy in the statesand the series 5 is availible from Amazon in the […]
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O2 network down in London AGAIN!
Ohhh, O2 customers in London are once agin experiencing a blackout in signal as the network is having another mysterious outage. O2 users have taken to twitter to ask about the information and it has reevaled that several areas across London has seen an outage. Back in May there was another mass outage in London as a […]