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Google scores a World Cup gooooooooooal!

Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010 - by mike s

Fans of Google will be familiar with the company’s policy of adding topical logo tweaks and general anniversary-related japes (like the fabulous PACMAN game recently) and it seems that they’re …

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Apple / software / web

Apple releases Safari 5 web browser with added HTML5 and Bing

Tuesday, Jun 8, 2010Monday, Jun 7, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Curiously absent from yesterday’s WWDC10 keynote speech by Steve Jobs was any mention of the expected update to their Safari browser. Instead, a press release came shuffling out from Apple …

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video / web

Humax finally schedules updates for its wonky PVRs

Monday, Jun 7, 2010Monday, Jun 7, 2010 - by mike s - 8 Comments.

Like a lot of our readers, we’ve had a thoroughly torrid time with our Humax PVRs, but it seems there finally is hope on the horizon, with over-the-air updates scheduled …

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web

Yahoo offers “all in” Facebook integration across their sites

Monday, Jun 7, 2010Sunday, Jun 6, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Yahoo has relaunched its Yahoo Profiles service, renaming it Yahoo Pulse and adding “all in” integration with Facebook Connect, including the Yahoo home page.

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Microsoft / web

Worldwide browser share: IE slips, Firefox falters, Chrome soars

Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010 - by Lee J.

Once the mighty, all-conquering colossus of internet browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, with new data on browser use trends revealing that it’s now used by …

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stuff / web

People who post up amusing videos of their pets using an iPad…

Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

Don’t you sometimes wish that the pet pooch would inadvertently put its claw straight through the ruddy iPad screen, or perhaps the distraught moggy would go berserk and scratch the …

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web

Skype 2.0 for the iPhone adds 3G calling

Monday, May 31, 2010Monday, May 31, 2010 - by mike s

It’s been a long time coming, but Skype 2.0 for the Apple iPhone has finally shimmied into town, adding 3G calling.

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stuff / web

Forecast the weather – without any gadgets!

Sunday, May 30, 2010 - by mike s

If you’re like us, you’ll probably have weather widgets on your phone, on your PC desktop and maybe even your own personal weather station keeping you permanently updated in all …

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Google / web

Google lists the top 1000 websites in the world

Friday, May 28, 2010Friday, May 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google has given its mighty calculators a bit of a spin and released a list of the top 1,000 websites on the planet.

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broadcasting / web

BBC iPlayer offers Twitter and Facebook integration

Wednesday, May 26, 2010Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - by Pete Railton

The BBC has launched a beta version of its popular iPlayer showing off new features like the ability to share favourite programmes via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

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gaming / mobiles / web

Dominos Pizza hooks up with Foursquare to offer foodie freebies

Wednesday, May 26, 2010Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Dominos Pizza has decided to grab a piece of the location-based social gaming pie by using Foursquare to encourage users to check-in at its outlets.

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Google / web

Google offers SSL encrypted search beta service

Monday, May 24, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Google has switched on a beta version of its SSL encrypted search service, which encrypts data sent between your PC and Google’s servers, making it just about impossible for sneaky …

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web

How does one Tweet, “Twitter is over capacity”?

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - by Lee J.

It’s a conundrum all right. It’s been down for a few minutes too – which makes us think some really big important event has happened and we’re not hearing about …

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video / web

YouTube – monster, fact-bloated infographic unleashed

Monday, May 17, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Inbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a …

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video / web

YouTube hits 2 billion views per day [video]

Monday, May 17, 2010Monday, May 17, 2010 - by Lee J.

The celebrations keep on happening at YouTube, with the company announcing that it has exceeded the astonishing figure of 2 billion video views per day, just a month after the …

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