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Sky announces Sky Player Windows 7 integration

21 October 2009, 20:04

Sky has announced that its new Sky Player Internet TV service will be integrated into Microsoft's new Windows 7 Media Centre.

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Virgin America and Google offer free Wi-Fi

20 October 2009, 14:19

For the holiday season, Virgin America airlines and Google have teamed up to offer passengers free Wi-Fi.

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Social media dos and do nots revealed

19 October 2009, 22:25

Two separate surveys shed some surprising light on the new "manners" of social media, especially when it comes to mobile internet devices

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Microsoft says most Sidekick data has been recovered

15 October 2009, 09:37

Having been warned that their personal data was lost, it looks like affected Sidekick users are OK after all.

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Sky News now available online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

14 October 2009, 11:07

Sky News has been made available online, for free, at news.sky.com.

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Microsoft and T-Mobile in cloud mega-fail

12 October 2009, 10:16

Users of the Sidekick smartphone have probably lost all their personal data thanks to a server failure.

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Study warns of need to wake up to cyber threat

12 October 2009, 08:56

Research organisation says dealing with cyber threats to national security should be given extra importance.

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HEXUS.TalkingShop: e-victims and the human cost of phishing

9 October 2009, 16:36

The recent leaking of thousands of email account details has brought phishing onto the front pages.

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Yahoo! says it hasn't neglected search

8 October 2009, 14:08

Yahoo! is rolling out a host of new search tools in order to remind people the firm is still dedicated to the Internet query market, despite an imminent deal with ...

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Gmail victim of phishing scam too, admits Google

8 October 2009, 14:00

Google has now confessed that its free Gmail service was also affected by a recent phishing scheme that rendered 10,000 to 20,000 email accounts - including Hotmail, Yahoo and others ...

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US bloggers must now disclose commercial ties

6 October 2009, 09:04

The FTC has ruled that bloggers must reveal material connections with companies whose products they endorse.

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The power of the Internet - Ukraine vs. England to be shown exclusively online

5 October 2009, 11:03

Saturday's World Cup qualifier to become the first England game unavailable on TV.

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Pay for broadband per megabyte says Verizon CTO

30 September 2009, 13:21

Verizon CTO, Dick Lynch, has said in the future he hopes people will have to pay for every megabyte of data they use.

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Google's Wave to splash down on testers

30 September 2009, 10:32

100,000 Internet surfers will be lucky enough to test out Google's new collaborative desktop service, Google Wave, as of tomorrow.

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Apple App Store downloads go exponential

28 September 2009, 15:15

It look nine months to get to one billion downloads, but only five more months to get to two.

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Twitter now worth a cool billion

25 September 2009, 13:05

New round of funding reportedly values the micro blogging service at a billion dollars.

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US government unveils net neutrality initiative

22 September 2009, 12:41

Nation Broadband Plan designed to ensure open Internet access, but not everyone’s a supporter.

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Google teams up with instant book printer

18 September 2009, 08:43

The firm’s extensive index of scanned books can now be printed on the spot.

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Microsoft and Yahoo in talks with EU over search deal

17 September 2009, 12:40

Surely Microsoft never thought the deal would get past Europe without a fight.

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Google's free Wi-Fi tried and tested

16 September 2009, 18:31

One person's experience of Google's free Wi-Fi offering for a whole town.

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Bing and Google both releases new features

15 September 2009, 12:10

The search engine war intensifies as Microsoft and Google both try to demonstrate why theirs is best.

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Facebook Lite to serve bandwidth-starved social networkers

11 September 2009, 15:52

Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for users with slow internet connections.

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EU says most technology e-tailers fall short

9 September 2009, 14:58

Europe pokes its nose into the continent’s biggest consumer electronics e-tailers and finds them wanting.

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Spotify launches on iPhone and Android

7 September 2009, 10:52

Streaming music service comes to mobile phones, but only if you have a premium account.

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Amazon gets legal on Google Books

3 September 2009, 12:17

The much disputed Google Books settlement receives another blow as Amazon files a formal objection.

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Police discover Internet - launch e-crime strategy

2 September 2009, 13:35

England’s police association lays out its approach to online crime, but it’s immediately condemned as too little, too late.

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Friday quirky: national press fooled by fake website

28 August 2009, 14:50

Clever hoax reported as fact by The Guardian and The Independent.

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What we're downloading from P2P: 54m for Heroes

28 August 2009, 11:13

The top-10 lists for TV programs and films. Makes for interesting reading.

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Facebook addresses privacy concerns, plans to tighten control over user information

27 August 2009, 17:07

Following a review by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Facebook has announced plans to improve privacy.

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Wikipedia to clamp down on articles relating to living people

25 August 2009, 11:33

A new Wikipedia feature will require an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people.

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McAfee names Katie Price as Britain's "most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace"

25 August 2009, 10:44

Googling for Katie Price? McAfee warns that one in six results could contain malware designed to infect your PC.

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Government can’t wait to start punishing file-sharers

25 August 2009, 10:14

Decides 2012 is too long to wait to start obliging ISPs to act on illegal peer-to-peer activity.

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Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! gang up on Google

21 August 2009, 11:31

The ramifications of Google’s settlement with US authors and publishers for Google Books continue.

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