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The People’s Republic of China has immediately jumped to its defense after insisting that every computer computer purchased in China, as well as all those imported from other countries, must have the Green Dam Youth Escort software installed on it so the government can monitor and prevent the use of inappropriate material such as pornography. [...]

Attendees of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 in San Francisco aren’t just looking forward to the new MacBook - there’re a lot of updates to the current versions too. Apple has packed 5,200 developers into the keynote.
Apple has chosen to make updates to the 13″ and 17″ MacBook - and anticipation for the announcements in [...]

As a follow-up to my previous post which documented a report by The New York Times claiming that an investigation had begun into a potential violation of anti-trust laws by Google and Apple Inc, it has now emerged that CEO of Google, Dr. E. Schmidt, has said that resigning from either Google’s or Apple’s managing [...]

There have been increasing problems with the posting of music videos and copyrighted musical content on video sharing website YouTube. Last month, YouTube blocked all official music videos being viewed on their site for residents of the United Kingdom - but now the site and the world’s largest recording company, Universal Music Group, are now [...]

The Information Commisioner (ICO) has recieved a formal complaint Privacy International (PI, calling for the services of Google Street View to cease.
Since Google Street View launched in the United Kingdom recently, Privacy International claim that over 200 members of the British public claim that they are featured on Street View, and PI now says that [...]

Don’t you love when you’re looking around an answer site like Yahoo! Answers or a support forum and somebody asks a simple question with an answer they could find in seconds by searching Google? I’m sure you know, there’s so many people out there that do it. And I’m not talking about questions of any [...]

Last week, Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, announced that if new proposals go ahead, less trusted or lesser known users would have to have their revisions to the website aproved before it appeared live. Currently, anybody can edit the internet’s biggest encyclopedia, but this may change to help protect the site from [...]

We’ve all had Christmas gifts where we’ve excitedley ripped off the wrapping paper to find a gift voucher for the most tatty high street shop or a “wonderful” present which makes us wonder why this person ever though of buying you it in the first place. Although this post is straying slightly away from tech, [...]

Do you love colours, patterns and pallets? Perhaps you are redesinging and recoloruing your home, or perhaps you’ree looking for some colour schemes to spice up your website. Maybe you just love colours. If you are any of these, then COLOURlovers.com really is the place for you. The site is based in the UK, so make [...]

eBay has said that they are going to enforce a worldwide ban on sales of ivory on the site starting next year. Sales of ivory will be totally banned, in a plan to help stop the brutal killing of African and Asian elephants for their tusks.
A society has revealed that eBay has had over 4,000 [...]