Archive for the ‘Other News’ Category
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Twitter has announced a new partnership with major satellite providers to give their subscribers access to Twitter SMS, the original text-based Twitter service.
According to a statement released Thursday, the company has partnered with Iridium and Thuraya, the world’s two largest satellite providers, to increase the number of people that can use Twitter SMS ...
Posted in Other News, Social Networks News, Twitter |
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
This year has not been a kind one for Kodak. Last month, the photography pioneer announced that it was filing for bankruptcy (and suing Samsung, incidentally), and now the company has let it be known that it will be dropping out of the digital camera business -- and then some -- marking an ...
Posted in Gadget News, Other News |
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The fine folks over at Raspberry Pi have announced that they expect fans of their tiny little media streaming system will be able to purchase the device by the end of February. The company had apparently hoped the device would be ready to purchase before the end of the month, but ran ...
Posted in Computing, Gadget News, Other News |
Monday, February 6th, 2012
The anti-piracy crusade has claimed another victim, with BitTorrent indexing site btjunkie voluntarily shutting down this weekend. Apparently the fifth most popular torrent site online in 2011, btjunkie had opened its doors to download indexing in 2005. “We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate” the team behind ...
Posted in Internet, Other News |
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
If you thought Mango was the bee's knees, just wait till you get a hold of Apollo. No, seriously, keep waiting 'cause we have no idea when that will happen. While we still can't say when Windows Phone 8 will be making its way to a handset near you, we do ...
Posted in Microsoft, Other News, Windows Phone |
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
There is no shortage of ways for YouTube to monetize its site right now. It has sponsored videos, ad-supported content, and pay-per-click overlay ads. But that might not be enough, as the head of the viral video site has suggested there might be premium content on its way to YouTube, ...
Posted in Google, Internet, Other News, Videos |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Good Honest Broadband from Sky with NO restrictions.
Big news if you're a Sky Broadband customer - not only is the satellite giant launching its own fibre-optic network with up to 40Mb download speeds - free Wi-Fi access from The Cloud is also set to rain in.
Sky Broadband Unlimited Fibre is ...
Posted in Broadband, Computing, Other News |
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 ...
Posted in 3 / Three, Mobile Networks, Other News, T-Mobile |
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 ...
Posted in Google, Internet, Other News |
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 ...
Posted in Internet, Other News |
