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Facebook threatens USocial with legal action over paid friends

Dave Parrack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:07 +0000

USocial has been offering Facebook friends for sale for a couple of months now. But it hasn’t taken long for Facebook to threaten legal action, sending a cease and [...]

The death of the CD is nigh as Linn bows out

Dave Parrack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:06 +0000

Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]

The whole of the U.K. could soon get free Wi-Fi

Dave Parrack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:20:36 +0000

City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]

Email could die within a decade thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Skype

Dave Parrack — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000

Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]

Stephen Fry talks Twitter – “human shaped, not business shaped”

Dave Parrack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]

Don’t become a victim of Facebook bullying

Dave Parrack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:34:48 +0000

Bullying has been around for generations and will likely remain a problem for generations to come. The problem is it evolves over time, with playground bullying first moving to mobile phones and email [...]

Top 5 tips for Black Friday – how to grab a bargain successfully

Dave Parrack — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:29:10 +0000

Black Friday is almost upon us yet again, and the one day of the year when bargain hunting is regarded as [...]

Switzerland sues Google over Street View data protection

Dave Parrack — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:38:28 +0000

Here we go again. Another week, another country threatening to take legal action against Google for its Street View service. Although it’s pretty clear by now that Street View is legal [...]

Google Chrome OS could “launch within a week”

Dave Parrack — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:24:25 +0000

Google first announced its Chrome OS operating system in July. Many people were very interested to see what Google could do to enter the already crowded OS market. Those people may [...]

Bloggers and tech geeks make good neighbors

Dave Parrack — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:23:53 +0000

Far from being the overweight nerds living in their parents’ basement, it turns out that tech geeks, including bloggers and social network users, are valuable members of society. No, really.

There’s a definite stereotypical [...]