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Google Music Review 23 Jan 2013 | 08:51 pm
I was extremely excited to hear Google had a cloud music platform in the pipeworks. This means you can upload your music to their servers and have access wherever you are in the world with just an int...
Will Graph Search Succeed? 21 Jan 2013 | 03:58 pm
Many of us will have heard about the latest offering from Facebook being graph search. It may not be the snappiest of titles for a revolutionary change to the way Facebook can be used, but it is an in...
Full-scale Star Wars Millennium Falcon Being Built by Fans 15 Jan 2013 | 08:42 pm
Have you ever dreamt of comfortably sitting in Han Solo’s or Chewbacca’s pilot chair for a bit of a trip through the galaxy? Thanks to a bunch of Star Wars’ fanatics currently building a replica of th...
MSN Messenger to Merge with Skype 14 Jan 2013 | 06:25 pm
For those of a certain age, (likely born in the mid-80s) who will have spent much of their teenage years enthralled in an obsessive love affair with Microsoft’s instant messaging service MSN messenger...
Google and Others Fight Abstract Patents in Court 10 Dec 2012 | 04:43 pm
Last Friday saw a major shot fired at overly-abstract tech patents as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and several other companies filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals on the case CLS v Alice. O...
The Skype Ringtone… Remixed as a House Track 6 Dec 2012 | 08:54 pm
If you’re a heavy Skype user like me then you’ll be very familiar with the Skype ringtone (it goes something like “doot dee doot dit doo dee”). I have to say, I’ve always found it quite pleasant and i...
New Facebook Messenger App: Is It Really an SMS Killer? 5 Dec 2012 | 03:39 pm
Would you replace your phone’s native text messaging service for something a little more Facebook-powered? That’s what the social media giant is banking on, with the announcement that a new Messenger ...
Text Messaging Turns Twenty! 3 Dec 2012 | 03:56 pm
The first text message was sent on this day in 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth who used his computer to wish “Merry Christmas” to Richard Jarvis, of Vodafone, on his Orbitel 901 mobile phone. Sadly...
Syria Disappears Off The Face of the Internet 30 Nov 2012 | 03:05 pm
A statement from global Internet intelligence agency, Renesys, has reported that Syria’s international Internet connectivity has been completely shut down. Using information taken from a global routin...
NASA Building Star Trek Warp Drive 29 Nov 2012 | 02:30 pm
Faster than light travel has long been a staple of science fiction – and science fiction is where many assumed it would remain. NASA scientists however are now working on such a technology, and yes it...
