Saturday, July 31, 2010 Notice something new with your Facebook page? Right beside “Update Status” on your wall… well, some beta testers would actually find “Facebook Questions” right there.This new feature enables the user to post a question which will become automatically public to all users of Facebook. The scheme designers hope that this would [...]
Friday, July 30, 2010 Legislation.gov.uk went online today. This incredible website presents every single article of legislation in the UK, spanning around 800 years of British laws and including all revisions throughout history since 1267. The website was put up to replace the websites for both The Office of Public Sector Information and the Statue [...]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 A Russian court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur ordered RA RTS Rosnet, a local internet services provider to block access to YouTube and four other websites because of ‘extremist content’.A video entitled “Russia for Russians” (a Russian extremist slogan) was allegedly posted on YouTube and a Russian court made a ruling [...]
Thursday, July 29, 2010 UK’s second largest internet service provider admitted that since July, the company has been secretly scrutinizing the web usage of its 4.2 million customers in an attempt to detect malware in the network. The issue broke through when some customers who ran their own websites noticed that their browsing activities were [...]
Monday, July 26, 2010 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent US government agencyin charge of regularing the radio spectrum which includes radio, television, and the internet, announced this Monday that the practice of “jailbreaking” an iPhone or any other mobile phone, for that matter, legal. The controversial law is being fought hard by Apple [...]
One of the world’s most famous dolls, Mattel’s Barbie, signed up to Foursquare and Twitter to promote her latest ‘incarnation’ – Barbie Video Girl. Barbie Video Girl doubles up as a digital video camera and even comes with her own video editing software. On the 20th of July Mattel will launch a ‘scavenger hunt’ across [...]
In the sci-fi action-thriller Minority Report advertising goes to a whole new level as the billboards are able to identify the exact identity of who is viewing the ad and therefore the billboard can make a suggestion to the passerby as to what to purchase and some other things that they might like. That happenning, [...]
E-books have outselled the hardbacks. Last month, a hundred and eighty e-books were sold for every 100 non-digital books. During the second quarter of this year, 143 e-books were sold for every 100 hardcovers. This data coming from Amazon, the online retailer and owner of the Kindle e-reader, clearly exhibits what any online business analyst [...]
Boeing’s Phantom Eye can soar at 65,000 feet for four days without having to refuel; it needs no actual pilot; it operates on alternative energy… and as is all that were not enough to make jaws drop. The vehicle is eco-friendly! The green airplane’s two 2.3-litre Ford engines provide 150 horsepower each, enabling the plane [...]
“There’s a zombie on your lawn; you don’t want zombies on your lawn,” sang the sunflower on the credits of the hit Pop Cap game, Plants vs. Zombies. The sunflower has got it all wrong as zombies visiting the lawn, or pool, or even the roof has been one of the biggest hits to casual [...]
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