Jun
25

Fairsharemusic new charity music downloading service

Fairsharemusic is a new music sharing service with charitable ambitions. It works much like any MP3 downloading store, with the notable exception that half of the site’s profits are given to.. more
Jun
25

ICANN approves .xxx domain names

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has reportedly granted approval for the creation of the .xxx top level domain. Adult websites will use the domain, obviously enough (either.. more
Jun
25

Intel to bring Android 2.2 to Atom devices

Intel has announced that it will be porting across the Android mobile operating system onto devices that run using the firm’s Atom chipset. A spokesman for the company told APC that.. more
Jun
25

Vizio announces WiFi HD router and Blu-ray players

Vizio, a US-based consumer electronics company, has announced three WiFi-equipped Blu-ray players and a dual-band HD router, which uses the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands to maximise speed and range across all types of media and data The XWR100 router will prioritise HD media.. more
Jun
25

Vopium secures $16.5 million investment

Vopium’s economic foundation is now secured so that the company can keep expanding internationally. The Indian investor, Raghuvinder Kataria, has with his own investment company invested $16.5 million in the Danish company and he now owns the majority of the shares in Vopium. “Vopium has.. more
Jun
25

Facebook sends Twitter friend finder into flutter

The Twitter app for Facebook links the two social networks up, allowing status updates to be simultaneously shared across both. And yesterday Twitter updated the app to enable Facebookers to see which of their friends also has a Twitter account on the go, and to.. more
Jun
25

Jobs speaks out on iPhone 4 antenna issue: Hold your phone differently

The CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, has spoken out on the antenna problem that has been reported by some iPhone 4 users. Since the phone went on sale yesterday, a number of complaints have popped up across the net, along with illustrative video clips on.. more
Jun
25

Aberdeen man horses around on Google Street View

We’ve seen some weird and amusing sights on Street View, not that they’ll have caused privacy activists to have cracked much of a smile. The farm nursery worker flashing her bra out of a window at the passing Street View car, for example. Or the.. more
Jun
25

Scientists use website to build nuclear reactors

It seems like the script to a film, but it appears that amateur scientists, with the help of the online science community Fusor.net, are developing homemade nuclear reactors! The idea is to develop these reactors to help solve the world’s energy crisis. Fusion is a.. more
Jun
25

BBC claims viewers don’t mind violence

Violence and bad language have always been hot subjects when it comes to the television so, in it wisdom, the BBC has apparently conducted a serious survey on these subjects by asking 300 people their thoughts on violence and bad language. It turns out that.. more