Category: Internet
Delicious saved from the axe
Delicious, the bookmark organising and sharing site, will live to fight another day following reports that it had been axed as part of cost-cutting measures at Yahoo!. Leaked slides from a Yahoo! meeting last week showed that Delicious, alongside search…
Conservatives pressurising ISPs to block porn in the UK
The Conservative government are in talks with internet service providers to put a blanket block on porn sites in the UK, in order to protect young children from adult content. Stating that 60 percent of nine to eighteen year olds…
Top 5 Delicious alternative bookmarking sites
Delicious, the bookmark host and organising site, is to close its doors to the the interwebbing public as part of a bid to streamine and cost-cut at umbrella-company owners Yahoo!. First launched as del.icio.us back in 2003, it'll come as…
Yahoo! shutting down Delicious and AltaVista
Yahoo! are to slim down their sizeable range of services by calling time on Delicious and AltaVista. Internal slides from the company leaked prematurely online, revealing the closures to disgruntled users. After confirming that the leaked slides were indeed the…
iTunes 10 gets more social as Ping adds collaborative playlists
iTunes has just got a little more social, as the built-in social network Ping has now added a collaborative playlist feature. An arrow next to playlists in iTunes now offers the option to "Publish Playlist", sharing the collected tracks with…
WikiLeaks' Assange tops Time's Person of the Year poll
Julian Assange, founder of the political whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has topped Time magazine's Person of the Year poll, seeing off the likes of Lady Gaga and even US President Barack Obama himself. The reader-voted institution saw 382,020 out of the…
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending?
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending? That's the rumour doing the rounds on the "internetz" right now, as conspiracy theorists are claiming that Twitter are the latest company to pull support for the whistle blowing webiste. Despite a huge buzz…
100Mbps broadband service now available from Virgin
Virgin have begun rolling out their super-fast 100Mbps broadband service to select areas of the UK. The first areas connected to the network will be Hackmondike, Farnborough, Colchester and Barry in South Wales, with the network set to expand over…
Skype Rolls Out Low-Bandwidth Software For Humanitarian workers
Skype announced this week the launch of a bespoke, low-bandwidth version of their VOIP software, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNHCR-version of Skype, will be deployment across 120 hardship locations served by…
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange arrested (UPDATED)
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief and public face Julian Assange has been arrested by British police after an Interpol warrant for his capture was issued. However, the arrest does not (overtly at least) relate to any WikiLeaks leaked data, but instead on suspicison…