Tag: online
Spotify App Finder bringing apps to the music streaming platform
Spotify have announced the next big upgrade for their music streaming platform. Described as the "Spotify revolution" and the "next big step for music". Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek revealed App Finder, set to bring a wealth of apps…
British Library make 300 years worth of newspaper articles available online
The British Library has opened its archive of 300 years worth of local and regional newspapers, making 4 million web pages worth of news paper articles available online. Until now, those looking to use The British Newspaper Archive for research…
Google Maps to begin charging heavy users
Google Maps is currently free, and, for the vast majority of us will always stay that way. However, Google have today announced that heavy users of their mapping service will face a premium charge in the near future. So what…
Netflix launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012
Netflix, the popular movie streaming/borrowing service, is setting sail across the pond, ready for a UK and Ireland launch early in 2012. Hitting the UK and Ireland in a "streaming-only" form, with no physical movie rentals (at least initially), the…
Sesame Street YouTube channel gets filthier than Oscar the Grouch following porn hack
Sesame Street's YouTube channel, a popular online destination for kids, was hacked in the afternoon of Sunday 16th October, with the entire contents of the video-hosting page replaced with hardcore pornography. Accessible for around 20 minutes before YouTube pulled the…
Google+ now opens its doors to all, will.i.am pops over for a Hangout
The Google+ social network is now open to all netizens. Launching roughly three months ago on an invite-only basis, Google's Facebook rival managed to attract 25 million users in a very short space of time. To mark the fact that…
Facebook hosts 4% of all the photos EVER TAKEN IN THE WORLD
Here's a pretty mad statistic; according to photo sharing site 1000memories.com, Facebook now host 4% of all the photographs ever taken. EVER. That equates to an estimated 140 billion photos of the 3.5 trillion thought to have been taken since…
REVIEW: Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360)
Gears of War is back for a final tour of duty in the conclusion to the blockbusting trilogy. Can Epic Games raise the bar for cover shooters once more, or should this sequel be thrown down one of the series' own deadly emergence holes? Read on to find out.
UK man first to be jailed for "trolling"
Sean Duffy of Reading, Berkshire has become the first man in the UK to be jailed for internet trolling. Trolling, for those not familiar with the term, is the act of posting messages on social networking channels or emails…
Three giving 4 million MBs of free data to rural broadband blackspots
City slickers, with your mocha-latte-frappuccinos, Oyster cards and bendy buses; take note! If you're reading this using a broadband connection, whilst happily downloading the latest Mad Men season from iTunes and refining "the definitive" Spotify playlist, spare a thought for…
