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I was extremely excited to hear Google had a cloud music platform in the pipeworks. This means you can upload your music to their servers and have access wherever you are in the world with just an internet connection, device and Google account. Unfortunately, it was only available to US residents. Fiddlesticks. A year later [...]

Many of us will have heard about the latest offering from Facebook being graph search. It may not be the snappiest of titles for a revolutionary change to the way Facebook can be used, but it is an interesting idea. It was made clear at the launch of the beta that this is a very [...]

For those of a certain age, (likely born in the mid-80s) who will have spent much of their teenage years enthralled in an obsessive love affair with Microsoft’s instant messaging service MSN messenger, the latest news from Microsoft marks the end of an era. It has been announced that on March 15th our beloved MSN [...]

If you’re a heavy Skype user like me then you’ll be very familiar with the Skype ringtone (it goes something like “doot dee doot dit doo dee”). I have to say, I’ve always found it quite pleasant and inoffensive, both of which are very desirable traits in a ringtone. While I do like the ringtone, [...]

A statement from global Internet intelligence agency, Renesys, has reported that Syria’s international Internet connectivity has been completely shut down. Using information taken from a global routing table, Renesys state that at 10:26 UTC on Thursday, 29th November ”all 84 of Syria’s IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.” An update from [...]

There are gazillions of infographics created every day. Most of them fall off the design table never to be seen again, but some get spread about the internet like wild fire.  Why? And how can you make sure your hard work pays off in the end? I have brought together a collection of 5 of [...]

Hurricane Sandy, the Category 1 storm currently threatening $20 billion dollars in economic damage, has been terrorizing the East Coast of the US just in time for Halloween. Sure, the US coast has faced down a number of storms in its past; after all, the Gulf Coast in particular is well known for having a [...]

David Cameron may be eating his words slightly, as he finally sent out his first tweet on Twitter this weekend after having the account parked for ages and ages. Remember that “too many twits might make a twat” comment from 2009? Well, apparently an opinion or two can change in three years. On the 6th [...]

The US fall television season is upon us and with it comes a flurry of extravagant, elaborate and epic ad campaigns, vying for our undivided attentions and addictions until the sun pokes its elusive head over the horizon of spring 2013. Of course, any TV network worth its salt knows that the internet is the [...]

The tech industry knows Twitter is important for reaching a huge potential audience. The problem is, it’s often difficult to quantify what exactly that influence looks like. Follower count? It’s become hilariously thrown into the limelight recently that some users (particularly semi-celebrities) have been accused of buying followers. Klout was supposed to fill this gap between [...]