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No New gaming consoles in the foreseeable future

Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown has recently stated that there is no significant demand for a next generation video game console, according to reports from gamesindustry.biz, much to the chagrin of world gamers.

China create more restrictions on the internet

China has created more restrictions on internet use by adding more security measures for those wishing to create new websites. According to reports, to create a new website (and hence the .cn domain address) an individual most meet with a regulator and provide official identification and photographs of themselves prior to being granted a new [...]

Google Executives convicted of Privacy Violations in Italy

An Italian court has sentenced three Google executives to six months (suspended sentence) for the broadcasting of an autistic child being bullied by his classmates.

100mb/s broadband soon to be offered by Virgin

Virgin Media has claimed that by the end of 2010, they will offer a 100MB/s broadband service. This is quite the jump from their current subscription plans, which offer only three variations: a ?20 per month plan that provides 10MB/s broadband, 20MB/s for?30, and a 50MB/s plan that will cost the subscriber?38 per month. All [...]

Lady Gaga a big help for Vevo

The new music video site Vevo has stated that almost 25% of the videos watched on their site are that of music icon Lady Gaga.

15 year prison sentence for Teenaged Facebook user

A 19 year old Wisconsin boy was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to Associated Press reports, for using popular social networking site Facebook as a sexual weapon.

Hollywood attacks iiNet over copyright infringements

The lawyers of Hollywood’s biggest film studios have recently attacked iiNet, an Australian internet provider, over Copyright Theft.
Australian courts roundly rejected the claims, stating that the ISP provider did not “sanction, approve or countenance copyright infringement,” to the bemusement of Hollywood executives.

Superbrand List topped by Microsoft

After two years of Google being on top of the coveted superbrand list, Microsoft has finally been crowned king. The computer software giants have been the proverbial bridesmaid for years, finishing runner’s up in 2007 and 2008 (fifth in 2009), have finally become the bride, at the expense of search engine king Google.

Proposal for a .xxx domain reopened

Three years after the original proposal to make a pornographic-specific domain name .xxx was dismissed, it seems another proposal will be made soon.

Crestview Technology Airpark construction to begin March 5

Bob Sikes Airport will be host to the new Airpark, which begins construction on March 5, after four years of red tape and delays. The 20-acre Airpark will be located just south of the intersection of Airport Road and John Givens Road, on airport property.

EC probes Google

The European Commission has begun a probe into the popular search engine company Google, for allegedly breaking competition and anti-trust laws.

Xerox sues Google and Yahoo! Over patent disputes.

Last Friday, in a Delaware court, Xerox sued popular internet companies Google and Yahoo! over alleged patent infringements.
The copy company accused both Google and Yahoo! of illegally using two patents filed by Xerox in 2001 and 2004. Xerox stated that popular services such as YouTube, Google Maps, AdWords, and Yahoo! Shopping use Xerox-owned patents without [...]

Are incentives like free laptop deals a sound reason to purchase broadband?

A new study released by popular consumer assistance for broadband website Broadband Choices points out that 33% of all mobile broadband customers make their decision on who to sign a long-term contract with based on free incentives. The perception that these items such as dongles and laptop computers are given completely free of charge [...]

Increased popularity for on demand TV packages

The trend towards watching more on demand digital TV continues to grow exponentially as Virgin Media announced over 59% of their TV subscription customers used the on demand portion of their service at some point last year.
Total on demand views topped 750,000,000 during the year 2009. From a report found on digitalchoices.co.uk, a [...]

Sky packages categories of digital TV programmes

Sky seems to be following the path of BT vision channels as it now offers its programme packs based upon categories rather than volume of channels. This continues the current trend in digital TV to assist United Kingdom television customers in avoiding the purchase of channels they have no desire to watch. Popular categories [...]

Mobile broadband coverage merges with WiFi

Many laptop computers that have been made available through free laptop deals offered by mobile broadband providers in the United Kingdom are now being delivered equipped with built in 3G mobile broadband ability. This feature comes in addition to the standard 802 megahertz WiFi as used in all laptops.
The built in mobile [...]

Playstation 3 Console Gets 22 Karat Treatment, as PS3 Goes Gold!

The world of luxury without aesthetic taste has no limits, we saw
portable consoles, iPhones, and lots of entertainment technology products and
coated with layers of gold, diamonds and other expensive things, but without
much sense or aesthetic value, now PlayStation 3 has been the umpteenth victim
of the new rich, and his passion for kitsch.
This is a PlayStation [...]

Why Cleaning Your Windows Registry Can Speed up Your PC And Internet…

Windows registry files can be thought of as a large database of info, data & settings for the various pieces of hardware and software on your computer.
The job of the windows registry is to hold the configuration data of the many software programs setup on your PC, as well as the hardware devices that have [...]

Car Drivers Love Gadgets, But Consider Breakdown Cover for Xmas, instead of a Sat Nav! – What a Comparison!

Let’s face it, most people these days love gadgets! – and car drivers are not usually an exception to this rule!
In the 1980’s it was those annoying little dashboard mounted sound devices that enabled sales executives to think that they were machine gunning or rocket grenading the car(s) in front, in the vein hope that [...]

Virgin media launches A new application for mobile customers – Get Social – Social Networking

Virgin media has announced that it has launched a new application called ‘Get Social’. This is geared towards its mobile customers and includes social networking and e-mail applications.
Get Social allows users to perform instant updates to twitter, Facebook, Google talk, Yahoo! Messenger and virginmedia.com. This enables people to stay in touch and up to date with their [...]

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