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New browser-free Web version of Trillian is coming (video below)
Vonage loses phone patent dispute
Timesearch: New search engine that lets you filter by year. Great for if you are working on a school project
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Friday Fun: The Best Stories Of 2006 That Shouldn’t Have Happened!
It’s coming up to that time of the year, when everyone starts writing reviews of the last 12 months. Pretty soon everyone will be compiling the usual lists of the ‘The Best Gadgets Of 2006′, ‘The Best Websites of 2006′, ‘The Best Firefox Extensions’, ‘The Top Stories of 2006′ etc etc
I thought it’d be [...]
BBC HD World Cup Footage Is Amazing
I finally got my Telewest TVDrive fixed yesterday (the HDMI signal had died) and whilst my TVDrive was out of action the BBC HD and ITV HD channels had been added to the lineup. On the BBC HD channel there is a rolling demo of shows that will be broadcast, as well as a [...]
9Jun2006 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
Video Of BBC iTunes 'Expert' Now Available
Nobody could accuse the BBC of biased coverage. Not only are they covering the leaked salary scandal, but they’ve also released the video of the poor fella who ended up having to give a live interview on air when he’d apparently only turned up for a job interview as a cleaner!
More: BBC News
16May2006 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Wikipedia The Number 1 Online News Site
Recent data from Hitwise shows that Wikipedia has five times more traffic than Yahoo News, Google News and BBC online.It’s amazing how fast Wikipedia is growing, but I guess having literally thousands of contributors can’t help, as well as high rankings in search engines.
11Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Microsoft Want to rename RSS ‘Web Feeds’
Kevin Burton reports that Microsoft are looking at new names for RSS. At the moment they are calling them “web feeds” but they are open to other suggestions.
For once I think Microsoft are doing the right thing, even though the techies are up in arms about what they see as another example of Microsoft [...]
Internet Auctions Boost UK Wealth
The BBC reports that eBay now accounts for 1.3% of total UK retail sales, with £4Bn worth of trades expected this year with some household’s generating up to £3,000 on eBay.Although, I’m not making this amount I have to admit that eBay has changed the way I buy goods. I’m no longer afraid of [...]
15Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Exam Results Sent By SMS In Scotland
I just read a story on the Beeb that some exam results are to be sent as SMS alerts. At first I thought what a bad idea this was - what if the SMS was delayed? What if your mates found a way to spoof the messages and say that you’d failed?
Then I [...]
World of Warcraft: Should I avoid playing it?
The BBC reports that the success of World of Warcraft has helped boost the sales of Vivendi Universal’s games division to $150m. The game from Blizzard has now has two million subscribers in North America, Europe and South Korea, along with an additional 1.5
million in China.
I’ve been resisting playing this game as I’m worried about [...]
London Explosion Latest
I’ve just realised that it must be hard for those of you who are overseas to find out what is going on as the phone networks, both fixed and mobile, are struggling. To keep up to date with what is happening you can watch live coverage on the web at http://news.bbc.co.uk. So far [...]
7Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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