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Tweet your support for student race team, power a Scalextric replica car
This is cool. It’s a Scalextric model of British racing circuit Silverstone and you can move cars along it using just the power of…
Ballmer: Microsoft will leave no ‘stone unturned’ in battle with Apple
Microsoft will do everything in its power beat Apple. Not just in personal computing, the space in which the two have been rivals longest,…
Mobile TV gets major investment boost
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Updated iPhone Twitter app to come with interactive tweets
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Smartphones start to overtake feature phones in China
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Hundreds of thousands face web blackout because of old malware
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If ACTA is a nuclear sub, the European Parliament just sank it
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Is your Chrome broken? Here’s a solution
Chrome is the world’s most popular browser, so when something goes wrong the web’s bound to kick up a bit of a fuss. On…
Is your company timing its social campaigns wrong?
We recently told you that half of the world’s biggest companies weren’t effectively using social media to talk to their customers. Now it turns…
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