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T-Mobile U.K.’s New Plan is Everything You’ll Ever Need for £36 Per Month

Friday, January 27th, 2012

T-Mobile U.K. is set to introduce a new price plan from February 1 that offers British subscribers everything their smartphone will ever need for just £36 (approx. $54.46) per month. It’s called “The Full Monty” plan, a trusted tipster revealed exclusively to TechnoBuffalo, and one of its best features includes truly unlimited data. It’s ...

YouTube Users Watch 4 Billion Videos a Day, But Don’t Stick Around Long

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

YouTube streams 4 billion online videos each day, more than one for every other person on Earth and a 25% jump over eight months ago. YouTube, a unit of Google, attributed the growth to iterations of the website on smartphones and TVs that have encouraged more use, according to Reuters. The number of ...

FileSonic and others cease file sharing amid MegaUpload fallout

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

MegaUpload shut-down fallout continues, with rival file-sharing sites FileSonic and Uploaded.to each dramatically slimming their services to avoid allegations of copyright infringement. FileSonic has ceased any new sharing functionality whatsoever, the site now saying that “our services can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally,” while Uploaded.to has blocked ...

Megaupload shut down, Anonymous retaliates

Friday, January 20th, 2012

"You cannot censor the internet" Megaupload, one of the Internet's largest file-sharing sites, and seen by many as a haven for piracy, has been shut down by officials in the US, and its founder, Kim Dotcom, arrested in New Zealand. "Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States ...

Kodak sues Samsung, then files for Bankruptcy

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Kodak confirmed Wednesday night that it has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. In its statement, the struggling camera and photography company confirmed it filed for Bankruptcy and hired Dominic DiNapoli as its Chief Restructuring Officer. Kodak will continue to do business during the Chapter 11 proceedings and hopes to emerge from the bankruptcy in ...

Official Wikipedia app released for Android

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

It took awhile, but it’s finally here: the official Wikipedia app for Android is now available for download on the Android Market. Just in case you’re wondering why anybody would use the app instead of surfing the website on your phone’s browser, the app has the ability to save articles for offline ...

France ISP Free builds its own cellular network, offers free service to subscribers

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

The fact that French ISP Free just began offering its own cellular service is pretty nice, but the realization that it did so by building its very own prepaid network -- rather than simply hopping on a dedicated cellular provider's towers -- is a noteworthy feat. Even more impressive, Free is offering the service, ...

Phone maker punts AA-powered blower

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

15 years battery life, apparently Mobile outfit SpareOne has unveiled a new dinky dialler powered by a single AA battery that, it claims, lasts 15 years before requiring replacement. The SpareOne is a basic GSM blower with little on offer except the breath-taking battery claims. Okay, so 15 years is quite a bold ...

Netflix launches in the UK: Now live with 1-month free trial

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Unlimited access just £5.99 Netflix is now live in the UK and Ireland, the massive internet film and TV subscription service launching on the back of months of launch speculation and bringing a huge library of on-demand content through internet TVs, consoles, tablets and phones. We've tried it out for ourselves on ...

Samsung Wi-Fi IP SmartCam

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Few people know it, but Samsung Techwin has quite an array for pro/semi-pro surveillance cameras, but the Samsung WiFi Surveillance Camera is a product for home users who want something that is easy to setup. This product basically provide a wireless solution to remotely see what’s going on in your ...

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