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Fascinating map reveals where the undersea internet cables lurk

Friday, Jul 15, 2011 - by mike s

With 99% of the internet traffic flowing between countries travelling via underwater cables, it’s interesting to see exactly where it is they go.

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Spotify music streaming service finally launches in the US

Thursday, Jul 14, 2011Thursday, Jul 14, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

It’s taken them an eternity to get the service up and running in the States, but the music streaming service Spotify is finally heading to the land of hamburgers and …

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WordPress wobbles, reports server error, Matt apparently to blame

Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011 - by Lee J.

We’re hearing reports of folks having problems with their WordPress accounts, and we’re suffering the same too. All attempts to access our stats being met with this message:

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Google / photography / web

Swiftly shunt your Facebook photos into your Google+ account with Move2Picasa

Monday, Jul 11, 2011Monday, Jul 11, 2011 - by mike s

If – like us – you’re preparing to jump ship from Facebook and break free from its auto photo-taggin’ and auto group joinin’ ways, a new Chrome extension makes the …

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Amazon announces Unlimited Cloud Storage for music

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 - by Lee J.

Amazon have just socked it to their rivals by announcing that they are going to allow unlimited music storage for users of its Amazon Cloud Player service.

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Facebook adds self-proclaimed ‘awesome’ Skype video chatting feature

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Lee J.

Enthusiastically pre-hyped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the new “awesome” add-on to the social networking site has been revealed as video chat tool created in partnership with Skype.

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Facebook annoys more users by blocking contact-exporting tool

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Facebook’s penchant for hanging on to your data is well documented, so we expect many users were pleased when a developer created a Chrome extension tool that made it easy …

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MySpace goes for a song, Justin Timberlake takes ownership stake

Thursday, Jun 30, 2011Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 - by mike s

After what seemed like a never-ending tailspin into obscurity, hope may burn bright once again for the beleaguered former social networking heavyweight, MySpace. Bought up for $580 million by News …

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Google / web

Google’s Data Liberation Front lets your data run free with Google Takeout

Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 - by Lee J.

The rather daftly named Data Liberation Front has announced their first service, Google Takeout, offering users a speedy way to cleanly shunt their personal data from Google products.

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Android / Google / mobiles / web

Google+ to challenge Facebook for the social networking crown

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Tasked with making “sharing on the web more like sharing in real life,” Google has unveiled its response to the social networking behemoth of Facebook. Called Google+, the service – …

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Google / web

Google’s new wdyl.com website asks “What Do You Love?”

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Surreptitiously slipping out of dock like a ghost ship on a foggy night, Google have silently despatched a new web site onto the Internet seas, in the shape of wdyl.com (‘What …

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Live HD footage of Earth to be beamed down from the ISS

Monday, Jun 27, 2011Monday, Jun 27, 2011 - by Lee J.

This is great news space fans: starting from Spring 2012, it’ll be possible to view live, streaming HD video of Earth beamed down from the International Space Station.

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Google / web

Google hits a record-crushing one billion users in May 2011

Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011 - by Pete Railton

New research reveals that Google and its empire of related website were used by more than a billion people for the first time last month. The landmark figure was thrust …

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business / web

Repulsive Beautiful People website stunt backfires fabulously

Monday, Jun 20, 2011Monday, Jun 20, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

The latest publicity stunt by the vile BeautifulPeople.com dating website seems to have backfired rather gloriously, with the site currently being taken down by a denial of service attack.

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What happens on the internet in 60 seconds? Answer – rather a lot!

Monday, Jun 20, 2011 - by Lee J.

Everyone knows the web is a busy thing – but a new infographic reveals just how much goes on – and the figures are rather astonishing. Compiled by the Shanghai …

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