In a money-spinning effort, popular video sharing site YouTube has included ads on its mobile site.
YouTube has been in desperate need of extra funds for awhile now, and still remains in the red.
The new mobile banner ads seem unobtrusive enough as a screenshot, but on the small screen they do actually take up a fair [...]
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Mobile Advertising Comes to YouTube
Twitter Increases Anti-Phishing Security
After a spate of recent phishing scams targeting Twitter users, the popular micro blogging site has decided to fight back.
In a blog post, Twitter has announced the roll-out of its security service that will detect, intercept and prevent the spread of malicious links.
The system is similar to Google’s Gmail service, in that it automatically checks [...]
Apple iPad gets a US release date and new Advert
The Apple iPad has an official US release- date of the 3rd of April. Apple announced the date last week for the much anticipated “Netbook killer” but for all of those Apple-Aholics out there calm down because the 3rd of April release date is solely for the Wi-Fi only iPads, with the 3g enabled pads [...]
Virgin Plans 100mbps Broadband
Come next year, people who use Virgin as their internet service provider will be able to use Virgin’s new amazing service; ultra fast 100mb broadband.
Virgin says that the service will begin at the end of this year and the early part of the next and even more temptingly, by then will be piloting an amazing [...]
Facebook Zero – The Lighter Way To Enjoy Facebook!
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, has announced a new “Zero” version of it’s website specifically aimed at mobile phones. The site will be made up of text only in an attempt to make it easier for mobile users to connect quickly, and also to keep network bandwidth usage down to a [...]
The Pogoplug personal Cloud Computing Device
Cloud computing – a system where your files and folders are stored online on a large server along with data from thousands of other users… the pros; you can access your work from anywhere where you can get wi-fi. The cons… you have literally no control over the devices your work is stored on.
The Pogoplug, [...]
GoogleMail goes all Social Networking with Google Buzz
Yesterday Google announced a new Social networking update for its Googlemail online mail services. The new features will be called Google Buzz and will add many new social networking features similar to Facebook and Twitter.
Google Buzz is currently rolling out across all its Gmail customers so you will need to keep an eye out to [...]
Google Complains About Launch of Imposter ‘Sister’ Search Engine, Goojje
Ever since Google’s problems with China started a couple of months ago regarding censorship issues, it would appear that Google’s popularity in China has been decreasing with the fall of their share in the search engine market.
However, this time it would appear that it isn’t its market share which has taken a dent [...]
Linux Fedora VS Windows XP – The Comparison
So you guys may have heard of Linux and Ubuntu, two open source operating systems which have slowly been gaining more popularity over the past few years. But have you heard of Fedora, the 2nd most popular Linux-based operating system after Ubuntu?
Fedora is another open source Linux OS sponsored by Red Hat, a prolific supporter [...]
