Tag: global
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Netflix Will Go Global Within 2 Years
Executives from streaming service Netflix have announced that their product should be widely available across the globe within a two year time frame. The service, which provides shows to users over the internet, currently serves North America, South America, and in Europe the countries of Denmark, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the UK, France, Switzerland, Austria,…
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Google Invests in SpaceX Satellite Internet
The idea of a global internet service, floating above the Earth in some way or another, has already been explored and exploited in a small way by Google through their Google X Labs Project Loon, a system designed to project signals below an ever-present ring of atmospheric balloons. Now however, it looks like Google have…
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FB Messenger May Soon Include Payments
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There has been a lot of rumor around Facebook lately relating to the social network possibly including some sort of payment service. First and foremost was the hiring of former Paypal president David Marcus as the new head of Facebook Messenger. Marcus was snapped up by Facebook in June, and since his employment began all…
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HTC Hoping To Be The “One” for Google’s New Nexus Smartphone?
Reports suggest that HTC is making a bid to reconnect with one-time partner Google on the next Nexus smartphone and a follow-up to last year’s impressive Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus which brought with it Google’s newest Android OS upgrade version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Nexus brand has become quite the platform to launch from and…
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Global BBC iPlayer App Lands on iPhone and iPod Touch This Thursday
The BBC is preparing to launch its hugely popular iPlayer catch-up on-demand application for the iPhone and iPod Touch on a worldwide scale this Thursday. The iPlayer app has, until now, been available in no fewer than 11 different Western European countries. Demand from many users around the world has resulted in the Beeb…
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Anonymous Threat: Facebook will fall on 5th of November
Tech and social mischief makers, Anonymous have issued video statements on clip site YouTube – making its intentions known towards Facebook and encouraging others to ‘kill’ their beloved Social Network tomorrow, the 5th of November. On the same date as their mascot Guy Fawkes threatened to topple parliament in the gun powder plot of 1605,…
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Gaming Weekly: Arkham City Trailer, New Counter Strike Game Modes and Perhaps Dead Space 3
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Israeli News Team Might’ve Just Outed Dead Space 3 Space-mutant-zombie fans may have to raise their voices in joy over this one, as an Israeli news team working for a show bluntly known as “The Headlines” got a tour of the offices of none other than Dead Space developers Visceral Studios, subsequently capturing the graphic…
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Angry Birds destroy the cover of MAD magazine!
Those Angry Birds are at it again! Blasting out of their own mobile game and into popular culture, our furious feathered friends are now causing havoc on the cover of classic American funny mag – MAD! Proving to be the cultural phenomenon that the games makers Rovio Mobile has promised, the Angry Birds join…
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Samsung Galaxy S II sales reach 5-million mark
Samsung has some good news to celebrate today, as it has revealed sales of its Galaxy S II model smartphone have surpassed the 5-million mark worldwide. The Korean co. reported previously that the second coming of the Galaxy S mobile had raced past the 3-million point in only 55 days. Overtaking the previous model in…
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Pic 3D screen sheets make 2D video display three-dimensional
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in 3D, Desktops, General Gadgets, Home Entertainment, HTC, Laptops, LG, Mobile Phones, PC’s, Tablets, TV’sTired of looking at those eye-watering price tags for high spec 3D tech on the new wave of smartphones? Japanese company Global Wave has developed a Pic 3D – lenticular lens “stick-on” sheets that create the three-dimensional effect of top mobiles – like the LG Optimus 3D – for as little as ¥2000 (that’s around…
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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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Skype is down – again!
It’s only been little over a week since Skype went down globally – and we’re not the only ones who’ve been jilted again today. Looks as though Microsoft’s latest acquisition is once again having some “down time” from Windows and Mac OS with tweetards worldwide in uproar over yet another blunder affecting our chat and video…