Category: Internet
Mozilla breathe easy as Google sign 3-year Firefox search deal
Google has signed a 3 year deal with Mozilla that will see the latter's Firefox browser continue to benefit from a lucrative search deal. Google will continue to be the default search provider for Firefox, leading to valuable revenues for…
Google "Let it snow"!
First Apple's Santa iPhone 4S ad, and now Google's latest search Easter egg; it seems everyone's getting into the festive spirit this week! Head on over to Google.com and type "Let it snow" into the search box. You'll then be…
Wikipedia may switch off US pages if Senate's anti-piracy bill gets green-lit
Wikipedia, the free online crowd-sourced encyclopaedia, is preparing to potentially switch off its American pages in protest to a bill on the verge of being passed by the US senate. The bill in question is the "Stop Online Piracy" act….
Facebook's top topics for 2011: TOWIE more talked about than Gaddafi, Bin Laden deaths in UK
Facebook have revealed the most often-discussed topics on their social network for 2011. Ranking topics based on the amount of times they appeared in status updates across the year, the top global lists are a mixture of major news events…
Snoop Dogg sending personalised Singing Telegrams with Western Union this Christmas
If you're sick of sending out the same stock Christmas cards every year then you should check out this latest shizzle from Western Union. To mark the 160th anniversary of the company's famous Singing Telegram service, Western Union have teamed…
Mozilla Firefox turning its attention to gaming with gamepad support?
It's been a rough old time recently for Mozilla. First they find that their browser Firefox has slipped down the into third place behind the ever-dominant Internet Explorer and Google's Chrome, and then they find their lucrative search deal…
.XXX websites go on general sale today
All those dodgy "sexting" snaps you've been storing on your smartphone may finally come to good use today, as anyone can now try their hand at running a porn site with sales of .xxx domains opening. Until now, the ICM…
Julian Assange Wikileaks "Man in the Middle" play to be staged in London
A play based on the life of controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to hit London's Theatre503 playhouse next year. Running from January 10th to February 4th, Man in the Middle was written by Australian playwright Ron Elisha and…
Chrome overtakes Firefox in bid for web browser dominance
Google's Chrome web browser has overtaken Mozilla's Firefox for the first time to become the second most popular broswer in the world behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That's the word from analytics firm StatCounter, who note that Chrome has benefited from…
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…