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Sussex Police embark on 24-hour live marketing stunt
All the action online 27 October 2011 7:47 GMT TweetThe Sussex police, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to embark on a 24-hour live online broadcast of its activities - going out live on a number of channels on the force's website.
Using mobile phones, laptops, and the video streaming application...
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Google rebrands Picasa and Blogger - enter Google Photos and Google Blogs
Name changes ahoy! 6 July 2011 10:35 GMT TweetIt looks like Google is about to rebrand acquisitions Picasa and Blogger under its own Google products name.
Mashable is reporting that the search engine giant plans on retiring the older brand names, renaming them Google Photos and Google...
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Macbook thief caught using Hidden app
iSight cam photographs thief 1 June 2011 10:20 GMT TweetA Macbook is a desirable thing, much wanted by thieves across the world. Leave an Apple laptop in a cafe or lose your bag on the train and don't expect it to be there when you get back.
When Joshua Kaufman discovered his laptop missing he began...
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Watching the World Cup...online
WORLD CUP WEEK: Streaming live games, catching the news and having a giggle too 18 May 2010 13:00 GMT TweetWith the games scheduled for 12.30pm, 3.30pm and 7.30pm each day, the sad fact is that we might not always be sitting down in front of a TV to catch the World Cup fixtures. Worse still, if you're not in the UK, there might be some dastardly subscription...
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VIDEO: Wordpress app for Android released
Mobile blogging tool now available 3 February 2010 12:37 GMT TweetWordpress has announced that version 1.0 of the Wordpress for Android application has been released, and is now available in the Android Market. It allows you to manage your Wordpress blog from your mobile phone.
The features list is respectable,...
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Pope commands priests to blog
"Priests stand at the threshold of a new era", says his holiness 25 January 2010 17:43 GMT TweetPope Benedict XVI is to use his message on the Catholic Church's World Communications Day in May to tell priests that they should be blogging - using the Web and social media to spread their message.
The speech is entitled "The Priest and Pastoral...
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MP rapped over "rude" blog
Paul Flynn stripped of parliamentary comms allowance 19 November 2008 11:57 GMT TweetA Labour MP has been thoroughly told off after he used his blog to make fun of other MPs.
Labour MP Paul Flynn is claiming that he has now been stripped of part of his communications allowance removed after he refused to take down posts including... -
Twitter UK users lose text service
Co-founder says they simply can't afford it anymore 14 August 2008 13:33 GMT TweetTwitter fans in the UK have now lost their 250 texts a week.
Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone emailed users and explained in a blog that the microblogging service simply can't afford to keep the text service going.
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Research says blogging still booming
Our friends in the East keep trend alive 30 April 2008 12:04 GMT TweetA team of American researchers have surveyed 17,000 web users from around the world and have found that blogging is booming.
Rumours had been that the blogging trend may have reached its pinnacle after a massive surge in online diaries and... -
Apple pays blog for silence
Shuts down ThinkSecret in "settlement" 20 December 2007 9:31 GMT TweetNotorious Apple blog ThinkSecret has been shut down by Apple, following a 2005 lawsuit and subsequent "settlement".
A press statement on the site, that proved troublesome for Apple with product leaks aplenty, reads:
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The government is to start "monitoring" blogs
Blogosphere gets Whitehall's attention 21 August 2007 14:05 GMT TweetConspiracy-theorists, privacy campaigners and anti-establishment loons have got a new, legitimate, grumble about online privacy.
It's been revealed that the government's Central Office of Information (COI) is going to be monitoring blogs.... -
WidSets launches Jaiku widget for your phone
Now you can micro-bore your friends to death 11 June 2007 17:19 GMT TweetWidSets has launched a Jaiku microblog widget for your mobile phone.
Enabling users to post thoughts (Jaikus) on what they're doing, how they're feeling, or where they're going right now, Jaiku community members can also interact in real-time... -
Google updates Blogger, adds Christmas gadgets to the Desktop
New features add more sparkle to your blog 21 December 2006 11:08 GMT TweetGoogle seems to update its range of software all at the same time. In addition to recent changes for Google Apps for Your Domain and Picasa, Google has now added features to Blogger and Desktop.
Designed for people who don’t know a lick of... -
Are you an A-List blogger?
Bloglebrity widget lets you know 20 November 2006 11:51 GMT TweetTelevision stars are often described as being A-List or even Z-List when it comes to "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here", so why can't bloggers get the same labels?
kineda.com, a lifestyle and entertainment blog as used the Technorati influence... -
Google to trial print version of Adwords in US
Classifieds next stop for advertising revenues 5 November 2006 19:28 GMT TweetGoogle is expected to announce a new advertising partnership with over 50 American newspapers on Monday that will see its advertising service overflow into newspapers.
According to early reports on the web of the expected announcement, Google...
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