Tag: Site
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Steam Sections Arriving In GAME This Autumn
Steam is where it’s at for gaming on the PC, but did you know that soon Steam is going to make the transition over to the less complex and more affordable console market? We’ve been hearing about Steam Boxes, Steam Controllers and Steam console operating systems for years now, and true to their word Valve…
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Malware Found On Unblocked Torrent Sites
It’s always the same story with sites online that serve up content for free – they’re usually blocked here in the UK, but before long a ‘mirror’ site, or a proxy, shows up to make it available despite the restrictions. However, a research initiative into just how safe these unblocked torrent sites are has shown…
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Amazon Sues Paid Review Sites
Online shopping is very much dependent on good customer feedback. the coveted high rating on eBay, and the seller reputation system on Amazon both allow certain sellers to occupy the top spots in search results and gain instant trust from prospective customers. Of course, someone was bound to capitalize on such a system. Amazon are…
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Pirate Bay Returns With Phoenix Logo
After a few weeks downtime, the Pirate Bay has returned to the internet in its usual form, despite the earlier raid on the site’s servers a few weeks ago. The site was up in some form during the downtime, although mirror sites did include some questionable ads. However, the old, ad-free version of the site,…
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Crime Reporting Site May Open In The UK
The UK government have been looking in to ways to decrease the threats they perceive to the general populace posed by online sites and other web services. Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced that he would crack down on encrypted web services in the event he gets re-elected. However, a new proposal from Home Secretary…
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Two of the top XXX Porn sites found to carry malware in adverts
After recent research it has been revealed that two of the internet’s top adult content porn sites carry a substantial malware risk for their users. The malware itself is not found in the actual website but in the host of advertisements and pop-ups that come as part and parcel of accessing both adult video streaming…
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The Sun raises the wall – Newspaper goes to paywall site
The UK’s biggest newspaper is the latest of the British press to raise a content paywall system for their online website, thus only allowing paying members access to the news it puts online. This move is following on from The Telegraph also announcing its paywall plans earlier in the week. With the state of the…
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Lady Gaga Launches LittleMonsters.com Social Network
It would appear as though Lady Gaga’s legions of ‘monsters’ have outgrown the social confines of Facebook and Twitter – as the pop songstress has now opened up her very own online community! Feeding off Gaga’s massive internet fan base LittleMonsters.com is named the after the term she affectionately labels her fans and provides a social…
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Tesco Buys Music Streaming Site We7 for £10.8m
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Supermarket giant Tesco has confirmed that they have bought a controlling stake in internet radio site We7.
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Facebook Goes Offline Temporarily
If the fact that Facebook shares have seen sharp falling isn’t bad enough for the company, the social networking site suffered severe service disruption to its service too
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Hoax News Story Heralds the “End of Facebook” on March 15th!
A “news” site which reports alien takeovers of Earth and Mike Tyson’s pigeon fetish has pranked the socially addicted internet community into believing that Facebook would be pulled on March 15th 2012 and that all data, photos and conversation will be deleted – Heralding the end of the world as we know it! After Weekly…
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MyRobot.com is “Facebook for Robots” – Social Site Allows Droids to Share & Learn
If turning the human society into social networking whiners wasn’t enough – now even the robots are at it with a new website called MyRobots.com which pairs automatons to a friend site where they can interact with other droids across the globe! “You can see MyRobots.com as the Facebook for robots and smart objects.” Say…