It seems the US government continues to miss the mark on piracy and have recently announced 2 new unskippable warnings which will be featured on DVDs & Blu-rays. The new warnings while not only targeting the wrong people (e.g. those who have legitimately brought a copy of the DVD) but likely also pissing them off [...]
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This acquisition is being done partly in cash and part stock. This will see it being kept as a separate brand and continued develop to allow users to upload photos to rival social networks as well as Facebook. “…For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. [...]
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Google have now incorporated live service data for the London Underground from TFL (Transport for London) into Google Maps. If you’re like me and plan out your journey using Google Maps this is a great tool not only including live tube time data, which now also accounts for line closures and delays as well as [...]
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I confirmed on Saturday that my source from Nokia said that NFC will be coming with Apollo & today Microsoft confirmed this because of all the confusion that was created by the statement given to TechRader “As far as I’m aware, NFC is supported by [Windows Phone], but needs to be enabled by the OEM [...]
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Spotify have just announced something rather cool, Spotify Apps. This looks like it could be a great new way to incorporate more functionality into Spotify with the addition of Apps for things like lyrics and artist information it will certainly add a whole new level to your music listening experience. As a Spotify Premium customer [...]
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A while back Orange and T-mobile (UK) merged into a new company, Everything Everywhere Ltd forming the UK’s largest communications company. As part of this Orange and T-mobile customers gained massively from the ability to use the other network for their 2G (SMS & Voice mainly) signal helping all Orange and T-mobile customers (myself included) [...]
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Many geeks have been getting rather excited now that the //build/ conference is in full swing and the first official developer release of the Windows 8 OS is available! You can grab your copy of Windows 8 developer preview at http://dev.windows.com it is worth noting that if you have a MSDN subscription the download is much faster [...]
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The fine people over at Boy Genius Report have stumbled upon documents by American electronics retailer, BestBuy. The documents suggest the iPhone 5 will be released in early October, suggesting that the current iOS5 beta is drawing to a close. We all expected it, but this puts it into the horses mouth that we’ll be [...]
READ MORE »Anyone seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Same thing. Researchers at Cornell University have rigged together two chat-bots in a bid to see how one would respond to the other, with interesting outcomes. In essence, a chat-bot is a computer program which is designed to simulate intelligent conversation with it’s user. The general [...]
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Japanese firm Toshiba have confirmed their iPad and Galaxy rival, the AT100; will be available for purchase from all good retailers tomorrow (01/09/11) and I heard that there are some canadian coupon available for it, too. The first tablet released by Toshiba will come with the Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system and will be powered [...]
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