Category: Social Networking
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Skype distribute update for Windows following Thursday’s “downtime”
Skype has now pushed out a Windows update for the VoIP service which suddenly went AWOL yesterday afternoon. The Gadget Helpline got the fix and showed you how to get your Skype back on track by removing the “shared.xml” file which was causing the software to kick users out of their conversations and cause error […]
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Sony CFO teases Playstation 4 “development work is already under way”
A little light may have been shone on the future of the Playstation platform after Sony’s CFO teased (or blurted?) that the next evolution of the console is already underway. After Sony’s Head of Computer Entertainment previously shunned any suggestions that a “Playstation 4” was in the immediate pipeline, Sony finance boss Masaru Kato has […]
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HTC has re-unlocked their bootloaders
We let you know a few days ago that HTC were having a re-think on their new bootloader policy, and the re-think has been done and HTC have announced they will unlock their bootloaders… once again. The reason for the change was due to the amount of negative feedback that HTC got when they let us […]
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Facebook account minimum age will remain at 13
Facebook will remain closed to under 13s – despite media speculation that Zuckerberg’s social empire would be opening its doors to the pre-teen demographic. The minimum age policy for the world popular Social Network is currently thirteen and with nothing to cater for youngsters entering those awkward years it was suggested Facebook would start to […]
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Skype pulled after outage – Gadget Helpline has the solution!
Skype servers are currently taking a “short break” according to claims on the official website for the worldwide video calling and chat service. We at the Gadget Helpline started suffering with our own person-to-person communications with the Skype tantrum booting us out of chat, with log-in attempts prompting error messages to appear – and it […]
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Skype goes down globally!
Some people may be experiencing problems logging into or making calls on Skype, well there is always a reasonable explanation for everything Skype has gone down. Skype are on the case though . It’s a a pretty widespread outage and its going on right this minute, there has been an explosion of tweets relating to it. […]
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Evo 2: The future of Gaming??
Who plays Games on their Smartphone, I’m guessing everyone from time to time. Well play those same games on your TV using Envizions Evo 2. The consol runs android 2.2 and plugs into your TV through a HDMI cable, in the box you get the relatively small consol 170mm L x 111mm W x 30mm […]
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Facebook and Spotify partnership – Spotify on Facebook coming?
Internet giants Facebook and Spotify have reportedly agreed on a deal which will bring Spotify’s music streaming service to the Social Network. The information comes from Forbes, who also claims that the deal has been done without the exchanging of any money from both parties. It’s no secret that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is a […]
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Twitter will hand your info to police if you mention.. you know who
Got a funny joke to tweet about that certain footballer at the centre of the recent Twitter scandal and “super-injunction”? Think again – as now you could end up getting yourself nicked! Twitter are more than willing to pass over any information on tweetards who break the gagging order to the police on request. The twit hit […]
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10 Downing Street goes Live on YouTube – Cameron & Obama in press conference
The first ever live YouTube broadcast from Number 10 Downing Street will take place at 12:35pm today (GMT) in a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron and “Special Relationship” buddy US President Barack Obama. The “Real American” has recently been visiting the United Kingdom with his wife – stopping at Oxford University to […]
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10 Downing Street goes Live on YouTube – Cameron & Obama in press conference
The first ever live YouTube broadcast from Number 10 Downing Street will take place at 12:35pm today (GMT) in a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron and “Special Relationship” buddy US President Barack Obama. The “Real American” has recently been visiting the United Kingdom with his wife – stopping at Oxford University to […]
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HTC ChaCha Facebook phone coming to the UK in June
For anyone who has been waiting for the new ChaCha Facebook phone from HTC to arrive here in the UK, I have some good news for you. We all knew the HTC ChaCha was eventually arriving; although now we can narrow down a bit – well down to the month it’s due to start shipping […]