Month: February 2012
Pirate Bay founders denied court appeal and now face jail
Back in 2009 founders of the now infamous BitTorrent search engine, The Pirate Bay, were convicted of being accessories to copyright violations and issued with hefty fines and potential prison sentences. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Carl Lundström and Gottfrid Svartholm went on to file for a Supreme Court appeal in Sweden in an attempt to…
Is this the new BlackBerry 10 London smart phone?
A shot of RIM's first BlackBerry 10-packing superphone, dubbed the "London" was leaked online this week and we're pretty excited about what this means for the troubled company... The new smart phone looks somewhere between a BlackBerry PlayBook and an iPhone, it's claimed to be RIM's newest flagship device and it's set to hit stores…
Sneaky Facebook forces us to love the new Timeline with movie-making app
This week Facebook has launched a new application called Timeline Movie Maker, which turns all of the content from your Timeline into, you guessed it, a fancy little movie just for you. It whizzes through the years of your life, showing you a selection of videos, updates, photos, posts from others and changes in education…
Google to start country-specific censorship soon
Last week we wrote about Twitter's rather controversial plans to begin censoring tweets in certain countries. Even though the move seems justified and will be executed in a way that looks (for now anyway) pretty fair, it's still raised a lot of serious issues about online censorship and the control governments may have over restricting…
Facebook: You can now easily hide the annoying News Ticker
Last year Facebook introduced the News Ticker, a way to see everything your friends are doing, from commenting on other people's photos to adding new contacts. Boring and a little worrying when you realise you've been sat watching it tick over for the past 20 minutes. Back in October we wrote about the Facebook Classic…
Last chance to win a Timex Health Tracker watch
A new year usually starts with great intentions of watching your calories, changing to healthier diet and exercising more. Yet for many those resolutions are shelved by the time February comes around as you just didn't have the right tools to keep you motivated. This is where the Timex Health Tracker comes into the picture.…
WIN: Find all the s%!t ___ say videos in one handy place
We've seen many a meme become an online phenomenon since the birth of Shiny Shiny, but never have we seen one that's become so popular so quickly that even our parents have seen (WTF) until now. The s%!t my ___ says videos have truly taken on a life of their own over the past few…
