Full length Channel 4 shows available for UK Youtube users
Channel 4's 4oD shows are now available for UK users of Youtube. Following the deal that was brought up a while ago, Youtube is now starting to host full-length episodes of top Channel 4 series, such as Peep Show and Gordon Ramsay's F Word, according to The Guardian. Youtube has... Read on »
BBC reveals Freeview HD rollout details
The BBC has confirmed a timetable that will bring high-definition Freeview channels to half of the UK before the World Cup next year, in June. The timetable will also make high-definition Freeview available to 98.5 percent of the UK population by 2012, when the digital switchover is complete. According to... Read on »
Google Latitude now uses location history and smarter alerts
Google is announcing an update to its Latitude service, which will allow users to see not just where they are at the moment, but where they have been in the past. Google Latitude allows users to share their location with their friends, from either a computer or supported mobile devices.... Read on »
Neowin hands on: Left 4 Dead 2 demo
The Left 4 Dead 2 demo has been available for a day or two now, if you pre-ordered the game, and I've... Read on »
Lord Mandelson announces three-strike plan to reduce piracy
Lord Mandelson has clarified plans regarding the "three-strike policy" today, created in an effort to reduce piracy, according to the BBC. Whilst... Read on »
Facebook announce memorial profiles for deceased members
Friends and families of deceased users on Facebook will soon be given the option to turn their profiles into memorials. The new feature will be introduced as a result of several complaints regarding status updates and suggestions about deceased users, according to The Guardian. Information that may be sensitive to... Read on »
Sony to show off 360-degree display, and no need for glasses
Sony has announced that they will be showing off a prototype 3D display that can be viewed from any angle, without any glasses, according to a press release by Sony (via TechRadar). The 27 centimeter tall cylindrical display will be on show at the Digital Content EXPO 2009 later this... Read on »
TI sends a cease and desist letter to calculator hackers
Calculator hobbyists who blogged about the modification of the software included on Texas Instruments (TI) programmable calculators have been sent letters from TI demanding they remove the material. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who campaign for digital rights, privacy, and freedom of speech responded to TI in a letter yesterday.... Read on »
Google is largest source of global Internet traffic
Search giant Google is now the largest source of global Internet traffic, taking up six percent of it, according to an article by Information Week. Over 256 exabytes of Internet traffic data were studied over two years in order to produce the report, which was created by Arbor Networks. The... Read on »
Ubuntu 9.10 due on October 29
A new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu, is due in less than a month's time. The final stable version of Ubuntu 9.10 will be released on 29 October, according to their website. However, a beta for version 9.10 is available for those interested. The new... Read on »
Twitter user sent court order through Twitter message
A court order has been served through the use of Twitter to an anonymous user who was impersonating a right-wing blogger, according to articles by the BBC and Reuters. The anonymous user could not be reached via normal methods, so the court order was sent to their Twitter account. The... Read on »
BT handed 100,000 file-sharer's IP addresses from BPI
The BPI have accused BT of not doing enough to prevent music piracy, after handing them 100,000 IP addresses of users allegedly caught sharing copyrighted files, according to an article by TorrentFreak posted yesterday. BT said it could cost ISPs £365m a year to take action against piracy, although the... Read on »
Calls for users to be charged "micro-payments" for iPlayer
The chief executive officers of Talkback Thames and Fremantle Media (the parent company of Talkback Thames) have shown support for a "micro-payment" model for the BBC iPlayer. According to an article by the BBC yesterday, Lorraine Heggessey of Talkback Thames and Tony Cohen of Fremantle Media have added to the... Read on »
Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk
Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6Gb/s - double that of the SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) specification. The drive offers 2TB of storage space,... Read on »
BBC submits plans to copy protect Freeview HD listings
The BBC has been criticised for its plans to copy protect high definition Freeview content, by encrypting certain data that only manufactures the BBC deem trustworthy will be given the decryption keys to. The BBC says that the plans, which have been submitted to Ofcom, would prevent piracy, according to... Read on »
DSGi employees caught insulting customers on Facebook
According to articles by the BBC and PC Pro yesterday, employees from Dixons Store Group International (DSGi) reportedly labelled their customers "stupid", amongst other things, in an unofficial Facebook group set up for DSGi staff. One of the posters apparently raised the question of whether or not employees are allowed... Read on »
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