Tag: money
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Virus Holds Video Games To Ransom
A tricky computer virus has been discovered which amazingly manages to hold people’s video games at ransom in exchange for extortionate amounts of money. The virus is a variant of crypto-ransom software TeslaCrypt, which notoriously hold people’s computers to ransom for massive amounts of money by locking out their programs. File extensions associated with games,…
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Zuckerberg Pledges 25Mil to Ebola Care
Facebook bossman and known philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg has thrown his massive fortune in front of the advancing ebola epidemic which plagues coastal west Africa as we speak. The deadly virus was discovered in Guinea in December last year, and has gradually spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia, claiming thousands of lives by means of…
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Oculus Rift Offering Bug Bounty
We’ve already heard today about how Sony’s new direction is orientated towards virtual reality, according to a top Sony executive. The game company is looking to push the software forward into a new generation of games. Meanwhile, on the social media side of things, Facebook is apparently going to pay big bucks to anyone who…
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Three Drops Roaming Charges in France, Switzerland, Israel, Finland and Norway
In August last year Three (the mobile network, not the number) decided to remove data roaming charges in 11 countries, the US, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Macau, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden, Denmark and the Republic of Ireland as part of their ‘Feel At Home’ initiative. The scheme allows you to web browse, call and…
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Money Supermarket Graphic Shows How to Make Gadgets Greener by Saving Energy
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Overcharging devices can damage our world, and their use can also be very unsociable as this infographic shows..
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Diablo III Real Money Auctions Postponed Following Account Hacking
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Following a number of reports of unauthorised account accessing and missing in-game valuables on the Diablo III online community Battle.net developer Blizzard, who earlier claimed its security password Authenicator was not to blame, have postponed plans to bring a real-money auction house to the game. Dark-fantasy title Diablo III was released in the U.K and…
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Nokia Made More Money From Apple Than its Own Smartphones in Last Quarter
Patents proved to be more profitable than physical products for Nokia in the past 3 months
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Nintendo Reports Annual Losses of £284.2 million – Company Confident of Turnaround with Wii U
Nintendo will aim to revive its brand with the upcoming Wii U after today reporting annual losses of around £284.2 million.
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Visa ‘V.me’ digital wallet service to launch in 2012
Paypal clone to launch through all major online stores and move into NFC
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NFC payment tech coming to Windows Phone next year
Microsoft’s Andy Lees confirms the technology will be a feature in future handsets
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Only in Japan! Terrifying Facebank is a penny’s worse nightmare!
We’ve seen some really weird gadgets that can be found Only in Japan! But not only is this one weird – it’s frankly terrifying! Meet Facebank.. The money-hungry coin-chewing little robotic fellow is created by Japanese designer Takada. It features a colourful but distressed Muppet-like face stretched over a wedge-shaped box, and as bizarre and…
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Amazon Android tablet: Price set for £150?
Analyst claims that Amazon will ship its tablet at a loss-inducingly low price