With streaming platforms, next-gen gaming, and hybrid lifestyles reshaping how we consume entertainment, the humble TV is slowly being overtaken by a bigger player:…
Google launches ‘Instant Previews’
Internet behemoth Google has rolled out a new feature called “Instant Previews” allowing Web surfers to sample a website without having to click through…
New tool to prevent those late night, drunken Facebook messages
A Web security company is offering a free tool designed to prevent users of social networks from posting embarrassing drunken messages online. On the…
French outrage: ‘Google has crossed the line’
Associations representing major French companies accused US Internet giant Google this week of overstepping the mark by putting brand names up for auction as…
US e-book sales near one billion dollars in 2010
Sales of electronic books are expected to hit nearly one billion dollars in the United States this year and to triple by 2015, according…
Rockmelt: The ‘social’ web browser with heavyweight backing
RockMelt, a new web browser that connects search and social networking, launched on Monday with backing from the co-founder of one of the world’s…
iPhone triggers videogame gold rush
The commercial tsunami unleashed by the iPhone has served as a launch pad for the videogame industry world-wide, which hopes to seize on the…
Google Maps embroiled in Central America border dispute
Costa Rica on Saturday stepped up pressure on international mediators to engage in its territory dispute with Nicaragua, after Google Maps was cited in…
Major US title dumps print, goes online only
US News & World Report, which dropped its weekly format two years ago and went monthly, is now abandoning print entirely for the Web….
Mail.ru soars on London stock debut
Shares in Russian Internet company Mail.ru, an investor in social networking site Facebook, surged on their London debut on Friday. Shares in the largest…
Europeans want the right to be deleted
Europe’s justice chief Viviane Reding called on Thursday for new rules to give citizens more control of their online personal data, with the “right…
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