FaceBook users want old style site
Whenever a new design is due to come out, many users rush to check out the beta version to see what goodies the developers have in store. This under normal circumstances would work out fine and most users would be happy, unless it is FaceBook.
It seems that despite many users switching to the beta version [...]
Chrome ready today
A real alternative browser to FireFox and Internet Explorer is about to hit the internet today. Google’s attempt to massage some users away from the Mozilla and Microsoft corporations is available for download as from now.
Google Chrome is going for the beta test and we will soon be hearing from those early bird users exactly [...]
Yoda not allowed on FaceBook
This is just one of those times when your name can be a distinct disadvantage, imagine trying to open an account with a social networking site and after enter your name the site pops up with an error message.
Well this particular person is from Japan and is named Hiroko Yoda, yes and that is why [...]
Police want national DNA database
A national DNA database of every man, woman and child, would help solve more crimes, according to the Chief Constable of Strathclyde, Stephen House.
In Scotland, there is not a DNA database in Scotland as there is in the UK. The difference between to the two systems is that in England at the moment any DNA [...]
Web browsing to be monitored
If the government get their way a massive data base will be built and no this is not going to be a list of names and addresses, this is going to be much more serious than that, in fact Big Brother will not be watching you, it will be monitoring your online activities.
It has been [...]
Google gets a second life
Google has recently been working on their next assault on the internet, this time it is a site that can only be described as a sort of Second Life.
But unlike Second Life maybe this time it will be policed in way that makes it both interesting and useful for business and individuals, this where Second [...]
New Mapping service top Google
A new map service threatens to rival and even overtake the seriously popular Google Maps. With Google it is quite possible to home in on you target location to see what is going around it, maybe it is house that the user is wanting to buy, you can have a look at the surrounding houses [...]
June 25, 2008Internet for everyone
The was jubilation when Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to launch a campaign “Internet for Everyone” the goals of which are to make open broadband available for every American.
Google’s involvement in this only part of the company’s strategy anyhow, which means they would have been pushing this programme [...]
The fifty year old digital TV
A television set made in 1957 that receives digital TV sounds rather suspicious! Well so it should because clearly a TV that in encased in a thick wooden case and sporting a seventeen inch black and white screen is not really going to be made for the digital age.
But for the owner it would have [...]
Games hit high sales targets
The threat of the credit crunch does not appeared to hit the games market, as the in the UK the first quarter of the year has seen manic buying of games in records that have been compiled by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and compiled by Chart-Track.
In the first quarter of the [...]