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London tube wi-fi remains free until the end of the year
mobiles / transport / web

London tube wi-fi network to remain free until the end of the year

Friday, Sep 21, 2012Friday, Sep 21, 2012 - by mike s

According to the BBC, Virgin will now be continuing to offer free wi-fi to London tube travellers until the end of the year.

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A visit to the Google Web Lab at the Science Museum, London Sept 2012
Google / web

A visit to the Google Web Lab at the Science Museum, London Sept 2012

Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 - by mike s

Billed as a ‘series of interactive experiments made by Google,’ Web Lab was a fascinating way to spend an hour or so – especially as they were handing out free booze at a rare …

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Wirefresh, tech blogs and the curse of the 'guest writer'
reviews / web

Wirefresh, tech blogs and the curse of the dishonest ‘guest writers’

Friday, Sep 14, 2012Wednesday, Sep 25, 2013 - by mike s

We regularly get people writing to us at Wirefresh enthusiastically offering to write guest posts for us, which on the face of it sounds great – we could really use new writers.

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Google lobs in new features as Google Drive for iOs and Android gets updated
Android / Google / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Google lobs in new features as Google Drive for iOS and Android gets updated

Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

We’re slowly becoming rather big fans of Google’s cloud-based Google Drive service, and the company has just announced updates for the iOS and Android apps.

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Sky owned Wi-Fi service The Cloud set to censor web content
web

Sky-owned Wi-Fi service The Cloud set to censor web content

Saturday, Sep 8, 2012 - by Lee J.

Sky-owned public Wi-Fi service The Cloud has announced that it will start filtering adult content from next month.

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Google shows off its best ever doodle - a wonderful Star Trek themed number
Google / web

Google shows off its best ever doodle – a wonderful Star Trek themed number

Friday, Sep 7, 2012 - by Pete Railton

Google has unleashed an absolutely superb interactive ‘doodle’ to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the long running science fiction series/franchise, Star Trek.

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broadcasting / video / web

Netflix notches up million UK and Ireland subscribers – growing ‘faster than Twitter’

Monday, Aug 20, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Netflix, the video-on-demand service launched in UK and Ireland back in January this year has announced that it has already hit the 1 million subscriber mark in the UK and Ireland.

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Google / web

Google introduces handwritten phone and tablet searches with Handwrite

Friday, Jul 27, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

Google has introduced Handwrite, a rather nifty new tool that lets you search Google from your smartphone or tablet by writing on the screen.

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broadcasting / video / web

Sky NOW TV looks to take on Lovefilm and Netflix in the UK, launches tomorrow

Monday, Jul 16, 2012 - by Pete Railton

Sky has announced that it’s launching a new service called Now TV designed to go head to head with popular video streaming services like Lovefilm and Netflix in the UK.

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See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time
web

See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time

Monday, Jun 18, 2012Monday, Jun 18, 2012 - by Lee J.

This is kind of fun.  An Argentinean web developer called Dan Zajdband has created a novel way to show where people are Tweeting around the world.

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Austerity book search site Penny Books finds books priced at one penny
web

Austerity book search site Penny Books finds books priced at one penny

Friday, Jun 15, 2012Friday, Jun 15, 2012 - by mike s

This rather fabulous website does just one thing: it lets people find books that are on sale for just one penny online.

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Learn photography basics with the excellent interactive DSLR Camera Simulator
photography / web

Learn photography basics with the excellent interactive DSLR Camera Simulator

Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 - by Lee J.

Now here’s a handy website for folks starting out in photography. The DSLR Camera Simulator lets you play around with the settings of a virtual camera, and then ‘snap’ a picture and …

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Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly mobile
mobiles / web

Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones

Thursday, Jun 7, 2012Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 - by mike s

The microblogging social network Twitter is now handling an astonishing 400 million tweets every day, a huge rise from the 340 million tweets recorded just a month ago.

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Will your tube station be getting free wi-fi this summer? Full station list revealed.

Friday, Jun 1, 2012 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Virgin Media has promised to hook up no less than 80 London Underground tube platforms by the end of July, so you’ll soon be able to surf while you wait for …

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Bit.ly redesign ruins a perfectly good service, adds pointless extras
web

Bit.ly redesign ruins a perfectly good service, adds pointless, annoying extras

Thursday, May 31, 2012 - by mike s

Until yesterday, Bit.ly was absolutely perfect for quickly sharing an interesting webpage across multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts

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