Posts Tagged ‘tech news’
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Youtube has rolled out a few paid streaming channels with subscription fees of under a dollar a month. Youtube is no fool and is hoping that some of its billion users might be tempted to pay 99 cents for monthly access to some ...
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Starting from this month, all communications in India are being tracked by the Indian government. All calls, texts and internet usage is being centrally monitored by the government. This means that everything said by text, over...
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The National Audit Office is to investigate the low amount raised by Ofcom’s auction of the 4G airwaves, which in June generated £2.3bn – a total of £1.2bn less than the Treasury had forecast, and £3bn less than the theor...
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Dropbox today rebranded its enterprise service as Dropbox for Business, and announced plans for the much-requested single sign-on (SSO). Dropbox has been available to businesses since 2011 via Dropbox for Teams. The company sai...
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A California appellate court decision states that you shouldn’t use your hands to control a mapping app on your phone. The decision is in response to an appeal that claimed the state’s recent “no texting while driving” law didn...
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From today, Britain’s six biggest libraries will be entitled to crawl and archive the web in an attempt to create the UK’s official digital repository. It aims to ”harvest” the entire UK web domain to do...
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Communication programs such as Skype and WhatsApp flout Saudi Arabia’s telecom laws, the regulator said on Sunday, instructing Saudi telecom operators to quickly ensure these services comply. The announcement from the kin...
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Spamhaus is being targeted with a massive cyberattack that experts say may be the biggest in the history of the web. The DDoS attack uses networks of computers to point huge volumes of web traffic at a computer server, a techni...
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BSkyB is to buy Telefónica UK’s broadband business in a £200m deal, leapfrogging Virgin Media to become second in the UK broadband market behind BT. As a result of the deal announced on Friday, Sky’s broadband subs...
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WhatsApp is allegedly contravening international privacy laws because of the way it forces users to grant it access to their entire address book. Reuters reports that both the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and th...
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Facebook has updated its policies for third-party application developers. In a blog post Friday, Facebook’s Justin Osofsky, director of platform partnerships and operations, said the “clarifications” were publ...
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A thief who caused disruption to tens of thousands of Vodafone mobile phone customers and emergency services after he stole routers used by three emergency services has been sentenced to four years in prison today. Vitold Kryge...
