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In cyberspace it seems that deceased serial killers can live on. I know this first hand, because for the last few months a character calling themselves "Fred West" has been running a Fan Page in my honour. There's even a picture of the murderer on his profile, and a status message that says he loves to "potter around under people's patios" Facebook rules state that only authorised representatives
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Spotify could well be appearing on your games console in the near future, according to CEO Daniel Ek, as well as your TV and any other device that has access to the web.Speaking at SXSWi this week, Ek noted that he would love to see Spotify on a number of web-connected platforms and that convergence is the key to making the music service work.In his talk, he mentioned that Spotify's deal with 3 i
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Google has teamed up with Intel and Sony to develop a platform called Google TV, which aims bring the web into the living room through new TVs and set-top boxes.The Android-based system should allow people to perform connected tasks like updating and browsing Facebook, Tweeting or getting their favoured news feeds through RSS. The move makes a lot of sense, with connected televisions proliferatin
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Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app, which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog.Mobelux, the guys behind the stellar Tumblr iPhone app are also the masterminds behind Tumblr BlackBerry.
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Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read ebooks on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon.Like its applications for iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry, and the PC, Kindle for Mac is designed to sync with your Kindle device, so if you’re reading an ebook on your Mac, you can pick right up where you lef
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Universal Music Group has debuted a new Guitar Hero-like music simulation game for the iPhone. Priced at $4.99 and available in the App Store right now, it’s called Six String [iTunes link].The emphasis is on a more realistic and deeper guitar-playing experience than you get in other music games, though it’s still not quite like the real thing. The game comes with licensed UMG songs
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission will submit a 10-year plan to Congress on Tuesday that would establish high-speed Internet as the country's dominant means of communication, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested 30 people suspected of belonging to a U.S.-linked cyber network gathering information on Iranian nuclear scientists and sending people abroad for training, a news agency reported on Saturday.
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Talks between Google and China are still on-going but it seems that the search giant is ready to pull out of the country.The censorship feud has been on-going since January, when Google issued a statement that it would not tolerate censorship of its search service in China.Both parties have stood firm since, with China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, saying last wee
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Exactly 25 years ago, on March 15 1985, computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc registered the first .com web domain ever: symbolics.com. By today’s design standards, and considering how web sites looked back in the late eighties and early nineties, it’s quite decent, although a bit short on content.However, its content and even the (now defunct) company that registered it are far less i
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Korean researchers have demonstrated how a human arm is capable of transmitting a broadband data signal.Researchers at Korea University in Seoul managed to transmit data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a subject's arm via low-frequency electromagnetic waves, between two electrodes on the skin spaced at 30 centimetres apart.There could be major health benefits if the technology is able
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The .com domain name is celebrating its 25th birthday, with computer maker Symbolics.com the first to add the domain to its name on March 15, 1985. Nine years before anyone thought to buy sex.com, and with the world wide web still a gleam in Sir Tim Berners-Lee's eye, Symbolics became the first to register a .com, and earn itself a footnote in internet history.Five others took the plunge that yea
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Real Networks’ Rhapsody To Go subscription includes a mobile app that lets you stream music (they’ve got some 9 million tracks in their library) directly from your iPhone, for a $14.99 monthly fee.It was once thought that Apple would never allow such an app, but now Rhapsody prepares to take it one step further, announcing song downloads for offline listening for the next version of Rhapsod
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Here’s an interesting tidbit from Apple’s iPad FAQ: if your iPad’s battery goes dead, Apple will simply send you a completely new iPad and charge you 99 bucks (plus $6.95 for shipping) for the service.You alone are responsible for backing up your data on the old iPad, however, and it won’t work if the dead battery is the result of an accident of some sort or unauthorized s
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An extended outtake sequence from director Ron Howard’s “Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion” featuring Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr. is making the rounds on the Internet. The original clip has attracted almost three million views.This new outtake clip is an extended conversation (two minutes and 35 seconds compared to just a few seconds
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Mike Mitchell, the artist who created the now-iconic “I’m With CoCo” image of Conan O’Brien that has circulated through Facebook profile pictures and blogs since NBC’s The Tonight Show scheduling controversy, told TMZ that he’s been paid by Conan’s producers for the right to use the image during Conan’s impending “Legally Prohibited from Being
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