Month: March 2011
AOL-owned Huffington Post gets Twitter power: Biz Stone joins
Following the high-profile $315m takeover by AOL, the popular liberal news site Huffington Post will be joined by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. "Strategic adviser for social impact" is Stone's title at AOL, where he will among other things work…
Internet does not favour freedom of speech, says WikiLeaks founder
While the internet allows for greater government transparency and co-ordination of activism, the other side of this coin is how easy it is for authorities to monitor and catch dissidents. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed students at Cambridge University…
Twitter follows Facebook in adding 'https' security in battle against hackers
As fraudsters eye up social networks, the industry fights back. From now on, Twitter users will have the option to set the use of "https" as a default option for the micro-blogging site. Https, sitting at the beginning of…
eBay to offer 50 free listings per month to all sellers
All eBay sellers will soon be offered 50 free item listings per month, as the auction site looks to tempt back from rival selling sites. Seeing user numbers drop since Amazon introduced their marketplace area, eBay will also charge lower…
AKG Scholarship of Sound experts revealed
The now-annual AKG Scholarship of Sound is once again opening its doors to those looking to get a head-start in digital music production. Funded by audio hardware specialists AKG, the initiative offers 10 lucky applicants from across Europe the chance…
DEAL OF THE DAY: £49 iPad from T-Mobile and Groupon
Fancy nabbing yourself a cheap as chips iPad? Well today may well be your lucky day. In what is obivously an attempt to get rid of surplus stock ahead of th eiPad 2 launch, T-Mobile are teaming up with Groupon…
PREVIEW: Gears of War 3 multiplayer (Xbox 360)
Anticipation levels couldn't be much higher than for those being levelled at Epic Games ahead of the September launch of Gears of War 3. The final instalment in the much-lauded series that practically invented the cover-shooter, Epic Games are pulling…
Apple expected to launch iPad magazine template to ease publication
Future versions of Xcode, Apple's suite for developing software for the Apple operating system, could include a template for creating digital magazines, according to Gadget Daily News. This could mean a host of iPad publications seeing the light of…
HP's sights are set on the cloud, declares new CEO
It's the cloud from now on, was the message from Leo Apotheker, who took over the reigns as CEO of HP this morning. HP's cloud platform will be "a single open market that integrates consumer, enterprise and developer services…
Tech-Apple to brand itself with the music-Apple?
Technology giant Apple has long been eyeing up the Apple Corp logo – the Granny Smith one belonging to the Beatles' music label. Now it looks like the California group may be getting its wish, according to European trademark…