Author: Stuart
How the rich and famous disappear from Google Street View
LG launches new G Pad 10.1 across the globe – including UK
LG has today announced the US launch of its new G Pad 10.1 tablet, which is set to arrive in Europe, Asia and Latin America later this month. LG says that the G Pad 10.1 features a 10.1-inch WXGA display…
Social media 'influences TV viewing'
Have you ever started watching a TV show because everybody you know on Facebook and Twitter is already watching it and won't stop talking about it? Well, you're not alone. In news that will surprise nobody, a study by internet…
Dungeon Keeper ad is misleading, rules ASA
An advert for the Electronics Arts mobile app game Dungeon Keeper has been effectively banned by the UK's Advertissing Standards Authority after complaintss that it wasn't actually "free to play" at all. A complaint against EA over its advertising for…
Facebook buys video ad firm LiveRail
Facebook has bought online video advertising platform LiveRail for a reported $500m (£292m), the Daily Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says that the San Francisco-based company's technology automatically pairs video ads with the videos that appear on many websites, such as…
Have the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact specifications been leaked?
It's summertime in the northern hemisphere, a time of the year that the media traditionally calls "silly season". it's the season where everyone goes on holiday, and actual news pretty much dries up. So the media has to rely on…
Samsung to cease production of plasma TVs
Just as VHS beat the vastly superiror Betamax in the battle of the video recorders last century, it seems that in the flatscreen TV war, plasma is the loser. Samsung has announced that it will stop making plasma TVs by…
Happy birthday! Sony Walkman turns 35
If you think that the Apple iPod revolutionised how we listen to music, then think again. All the way back in the dim, dark days of 1979, the Sony Walkman came along and made music on the go truly possible….
UK government filters wrongly block almost one in five websites
Online censorship is a big problem around the globe, especially in countries such as China, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Egypt. Now, it seems, we can add Great Britain to that list. Almost a fifth of websites are being wrongly blocked…
Facebook faces UK probe into 'unethical' emotion study
Facebook is being investigated to assess whether an experiment in which it manipulated users' news feeds to study the effect it had on moods might have broken data protection laws, The Register has reported. The Information Commissioner's Office is said…
