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Alfa Romeo snatch much-prized ‘most amount of water balloons burst by a car’ world record

Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 - by mike s

If you’re in the market for a car with above average water balloon bursting capabilities, then it seems Alfa Romeo have just the car for you.

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Facebook buys Gowalla in quest for Foursquare trouncing location-based dominance

Monday, Dec 5, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We’re still battling to find anything compelling about location-based ‘checking-in’ services like Foursquare, although we can tell that there’s something in there that has real potential.

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Google / software / web

Whoosh! Chrome shimmies past Mozilla’s Firefox in global browser market share, IE still rulez

Friday, Dec 2, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

For the first time, Google’s Chrome web browser has shimmied past Mozilla’s Firefox global browser market share, becoming the second most popular browser on the planet in November 2011.

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computing / open source / web

Iomega TV with Boxee offers onboard network storage up to 2GB – full specs listed

Thursday, Dec 1, 2011Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

We associate them most with the old Zip drive from computing days of yore, but Iomega are hoping to make a splash in the emerging Internet TV/media centre market with …

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Google / stuff / web

Google stamps the foot of death on Google Wave, coffin booked for April 2012

Friday, Nov 25, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Google has sent out an email biding farewell to its “I coulda been a challenger” Google Wave service, which was deigned to let users “communicate and collaborate in real time.”

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web

The web’s worst passwords – and how to check if your password is a good ‘un

Friday, Nov 18, 2011Saturday, Nov 19, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

With the web infested with lurking scammers, spammers, phishers and similar ne’er do wells, it’s important to make sure you have a really strong password – and that you change it from …

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Microsoft / web

Bing search now comes with a pointlessly perambulating video frog

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011 - by Pete Railton

In an attempt to make its search engine more appealing to users, Microsoft’s UK Bing search page now comes with a green frog scrambling along a branch.

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Super fast 4G (LTE) network starting up in London, Cockney knees-up to follow

Monday, Nov 14, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Gordon Bennett, lumme and ‘strewth, guv’nor! Roll aht the barrel because Londoners are about to start enjoying superfast internet connectivity with O2 starting up trials of its 4G (LTE) network …

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software / web

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 8, installation immediately reminds us why we prefer Chrome

Monday, Nov 7, 2011Monday, Nov 7, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

Although it’s scheduled for an official release tomorrow, Mozilla’s new web browser, Firefox 8 is currently sitting on their servers and awaiting your downloading pleasure right now.

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New York City parks get free wi-fi courtesy of AT&T

Friday, Nov 4, 2011Friday, Nov 4, 2011 - by mike s

AT&T has started to deliver on its promise to provide free Wi-Fi in New York City parks, with free connectivity now being offered in eleven parks.

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mobiles / web

Nokia turns on free central London Wi-Fi network

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Nokia, Gawdbless’em, have just flicked the switch on their free central London wi-fi network, with 26 hotspots now offering free net browsing.

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business / web

John Lewis offers in-store Wi-Fi, invites customers to get price comparing

Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Wirefresh’s favourite department store, the employee-owned John Lewis, is going to offer customers free in-store Wi-Fi so they can compare their prices with rivals as they peruse the aisles.

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web

Firefox 7 now available for your downloading pleasure

Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

We were big fans of Firefox right up to version 3 when it turned into a memory-hogging beast that sucked the RAM out of any system it found itself on.

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Google / web

Google celebrates 13th birthday with a homely doodle

Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011Tuesday, Sep 27, 2011 - by mike s

Big events and anniversaries have been commemorated by some extravagant Google homepage ‘doodles’ over the years, but for their own 13th birthday, the search engine giant has gone all modest.

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When is the best time to post your Tweet? Infographic ahoy!

Monday, Sep 26, 2011Monday, Sep 26, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Not sure when to post up that fascinating update about your new shoes? Undecided as to what the optimum time might be for your latest update? Or perhaps you just …

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