Technology giant, Apple, have purchased Silicon Valley startup WiFiSLAM, for a reported $20 million. WiFiSLAM specializes in creating technology for indoor GPS tracking, such as their facility to track the location of…
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Astronaut Holds Live Reddit Chat 220 miles Above Earth
A Canadian astronaut has held a live web chat via Reddit from space. Chris Hadfield, who is set to take command of the International Space Station next month hosted the web chat…
IBM’s Watson to be used for Cancer Research
IBM’s super computer ‘Watson’, which has been developed to be fluent in all languages, is to be used as a tool for medical diagnosis in America. Watson is famed for beating the…
Google Passes $50bn Annual Revenue
Q4 data shows that Google managed to surpass the $50bn revenue milestone for 2012 with an annual turnover of $50.175bn. Google made $14.42bn of this during Q4 itself which represents a massive…
Google Fights Proposed German Copyright Law
Google has launched a campaign calling for the German people to petition against proposed legislation that could allow German websites to charge search engines a fee for featuring their content in search…
New Domain Names Face Government Objections
Over 240 companies and organizations looking to register new top level domain names have faced early objections from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). The committee represents around 50 of the world’s governments…
Microsoft to Drop Windows Live Messenger in Favour of Skype
Microsoft is set to ditch its longstanding Windows Live Messenger service and instead focus on Skype. In a post on Skype’s blog, Microsoft confirmed it will be retiring Live Messenger in all…
Google Chrome Extension Removes Words You Don’t Like
A new Google Chrome extension has been launched, which will change words on your web browser to words that you find more appealing, the extension is called ‘In Your Words.’ ‘In Your…
Apple Acquires HTML 5 Specialists Particle
The technology giant Apple has bought out the small San Francisco based company Particle, in a move which has seen less than 12 employees of the firm taken under the wing of…
Gmail Users Fore-Warned on Cyber Attacks & Hacks
On the 2nd October, Google started sending out messages to thousands of users of its ‘Gmail’ service, warning them of possible pending Cyber Attacks. A report in the New York Times revealed…
YouTube Adds Over 60 New Original Content Channels & Expands The Service to Europe.
YouTube is expanding its foray into original content by announcing over 60 new channels, and expanding into Europe. Last October the Google-owned company dedicated over $100 million to creating original content in…
Hackers installing viruses onto computers before they leave factories, warns Microsoft
Investigators at Microsoft have discovered Cybercriminals have put a new plot into action through which they have installed malware onto 1 in 5 desktop and laptop computers before they have left the…
Research Claims Most Bittorrent Users are Tracked
Research by the University of Birmingham has discovered it is likely that users of peer-to-peer sharing tools such as BitTorrent are being monitored and their IP addresses stored by a number of…
Back to the Source – Black Mesa and Social Media
1998’s Half Life saw mute Physicist Gordon Freeman pitted against zombies, the army and the alien forces of the Xen dimension in a game so ahead of its time, that it is…