Virgin Media has today announced the launch of a trial service for it’s Virgin media Player. This would allow Virgin Media subscribers to view “hundreds of hours” of programmes and movies from broadcasters. Those included in the trial include ITV, Living, Disney, The Cartoon Network, National Geographic Channel, MTV and Nickelodeon. This is a similar service [...]
If you want a new social networking tool, try Tiny Chat. Tinychat is a simple and free to use audio, video, and desktop chat system. It is web based; it requires no downloads or plugins, aside from Flash, and it is browser and OS friendly working on all browsers and operating systems. You have video for [...]
Thinq is reporting that Hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security has leaked a 2.8Gb torrent file containing the Facebook account details of approximately 100 million users, this makes it about 1 in 5 of the total user-base for the website. The file contains details of all users who haven’t changed their privacy settings from “open to everyone” [...]
Now I’m sure most of you know all about these affiliate schemes, advertising networks and paid reviews that are available to us all. They all require hard work and dedication and there’s a lot of competition, but this post isn’t about that sort of stuff. For more on that check out our Guide To Making [...]
The Google Pagerank is one of the most talked about terms on the blogosphere. Bloggers can spend hours researching and reading up to find out how they can get themselves a good Pagerank, thinking that it will automatically mean they get more traffic, and therefore make more money. We’ll I’m afraid this isn’t always true, [...]
I am a just a couple months away from marking my third anniversary writing for Connected Internet. According to our feed stats and Twitter followers people are reading. Back when I started writing here there was a pretty active following of commentors. I have seen some of my articles go into pages of comments. However, [...]
The Ubuntu Software Library is similar to the iPhone App Store or the Android Market, at least from a user perspective. Here, you open it up, browse or search through a variety of applications categories, and download the ones that you want to try. Sound familiar?
To help promote the launch of their UK online backup service, Mozy have put together a great promotional video where computer users on the streets of London are given an opportunity to get a free new macbook. The catch? Well, in order to get their new laptop they have to smash their current laptop up [...]
While it may come in many different flavours, from donuts to eclairs, there is no doubting the facts that ComScore have reported. While Google Android may be 4th in the US Smartphone market in terms of market share, it’s the only one that’s gaining, and gaining fast it is. During the three months from March [...]
The Google Pagerank is one of the most talked about terms on the blogosphere. Bloggers can spend hours researching and reading up to find out how they can get themselves a good Pagerank, thinking that it will automatically mean they get more traffic, and therefore make more money. We’ll I’m afraid this isn’t always true, [...]
HTML5 has a number of important features. One is the ability to embed audio and video directly into a Web page without relying on Adobe Systems’ Flash Player plug-in.
You know what it’s like when you’re sitting on really great news for several months but you can’t tell anyone? Well after a long period of frustration I can now officially announce that I’ve been signed by Microsoft Press to write “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out”. The new book will be out in October this [...]
Now this is big news for Microsoft followers — the Redmond-based software giant has just made a deal with Chinese tablet manufacturing company Havnon to make business oriented laptops. This deal comes as not much of a surprise but the choice of manufacturer might leave some in a little confusion. There are a lot of [...]
Recently I’ve been looking around at the different laptop models available on the market for someone interested in buying one, and it really struck me, how laptops and netbooks have kind of merged into one and another somewhat. So it got me thinking, if you were buying yourself a new PC today, what do you [...]
UK businessman Paul Kane has been selected to form part of an elite “chain of trust” charged with rebooting the web in the event of a catastrophe that sees it having to be shut down, according to Metro. A new safety system has been introduced by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) [...]
The government of India recently reported that it was preparing to unveil a $35.00 PC . In that vein The Indian Times recently reported that there is an open invitation from the HRD ministry, to all to come up with more variants that fulfills specifications spelled out by it. The HRD ministry has set up [...]
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