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The Home Office is under some heavy criticism as we prepare to move into the New Year as they have announced that there will be a database made that will be able to keep an eye on phone calls and emails in an attempt to over come the terrorist threats felt throughout the country. The [...]

France is going mad over the whole iPhone liberation that has taken place over the last couple of weeks.  Apple is notorious for bringing out its iPhone in many countries around the world but only allowing one network to release the phone, providing somewhat of an interesting monopoly.  However, France has recently abolished the monopoly [...]

Social networking sites, such as favourites Facebook and MySpace, are set to jump on the greedy-train as news has surfaced that the sites are planning to charge good money to their users to partake in activities that they are currently taking for granted, such as uploading videos. Director of research for technology and telecommunications for [...]

Battery makers are hoping to earn a $1 billion worth of funding to be able to build a plant that will allow them to collaborate and make lithium batteries for vehicles. 14 US companies have joined together, including the likes of 3M Co and Johnson Controls-Saft. The collaboration hopes to receive the money over the [...]

David Paterson, Governor of New York clearly isn’t out to make any friends in 2009 as he has announced the possibility of so-called “iPod tax” which will see tax being added to downloadable music.  The move comes as New York is hoping to clear up part of the states largest deficit, ever. Downloads have previously [...]

In an attempt to keep the wolf from the door, Palm has pulled out all the stops and opened up a store, which will allow its users to download anything from the 5,000 applications available for the Palm OS and Windows Mobile handsets. Sounds a bit like Apple’s AppStore to you?  Well it does to [...]

As Virgin Media reveal their outstanding new 50 MBPS Broadband package, talks are emerging about how the company will be tackling the ever increasing problem of illegal downloading.  Virgin Media’s new package claims to allow a high speed connection to the Internet, that they “don’t slow down”, in an attempt to woo customers over to [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to search in the Google fountain of websites, Google announces that they allow their employees to decide what they want to feature in the page’s search results. This comes as quite interesting news as the company, not so long ago, outright claimed that the search engine relied on [...]

Google have brought their browser, Chrome, out of Beta status.  But wait a minute, the browser was only launched 100 days ago…doesn’t that seem a little fast to be pulling the software out of Beta labelling? Take a look at Gmail.  That is still a Beta project and it’s been with us for four years.  [...]

A while ago, Netflix decided to “go pro-Mac/Windows support” and allow their video streaming to be controlled by Microsoft’s Media Player, Silverlight, and threw their copies of Windows Media Player out of the window.  The new Silverlight streamer allowed Windows Media Player movies to be streamed by Macs the world over, making quite a few [...]