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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 [...]

Apple started its keynote conferences as it does always, poking fun at the PCs with their Mac and PC series of television advertisements. This year, the usual PC dressed in his smart suit stood infront of the audience and literally begged for ideas for the personal computer, even offering cash!
As the light dimmed, onto the [...]

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 are all aware of Chris Pirillo’s TIX clocks sitting above his desk. Chris Pirillo is a self-proclaimed fan of anything and everything that glows. Nowadays, clocks are becoming more and more creative, cool and flashy. Although plasma balls and use of plasma is not new technology, I haven’t yet seen many products which incorporate [...]

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, [...]