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  • Craigslist censored over adult services
    Craigslist has censored its adult services section without announcement, after a long running battle by US lawmakers to have it removed. Since Craigslist created an adult section, it has been dogged by controversy – in 2008 attorneys pressured Craigslist to screen adverts posts there, and ensure proper contact details were provided. However, last month, attorneys from 17 [...]

  • Vox.com to close
    Six Apart has announced that it is shutting down its Vox blog network on September 30th. The company is encouraging users to migrate to their standard Typepad platform. Vox aimed to provide a greater degree of social networking to blogging, along with stronger privacy controls. However, as with many social networking websites, it enjoyed a short burst [...]

  • Google doodles buckyball
    Google today celebrates another anniversary, this time for the discovery of Buckminster-Fullerene molecules – aka, buckyballs – curious 3D lattices constructed from only carbon atoms. And unusually, too, Google has rolled out an animated graphic as part of its new Google Doodle – allowing users to spin the buckyball using their mouse cursor. The fullerene molecules caused [...]

  • Sky recommends LG for 3D viewing
    With Sky set to launch its new 3D channel in Europe at the start of next month, the company is throwing its weight behind a certain brand of TV to enjoy its new three dimensional sport and movie features. And the officially endorsed 3DTV sets for watching Sky 3D are made by LG, in a partnership [...]

  • Tippex hits the white spot with YouTube advert
    An advert on YouTube has captured the imagination of the denizens of the Internet, notching up over two-thirds of a million views thus far. The ad for Tippex, entitled “NSFW. A hunter shoots a bear!”, doesn’t appear to be anything special at first, showing a scene of a camping hunter brushing his teeth of a morning [...]

  • HP makes progress with Memristor technology
    HP first demonstrated its Memristor technology back in 2006 and has now announced the commercial development of the technology through a collaboration with memory manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor. Memristors could eventually replace memory chips and hard drives. They are said to provide greater storage capacity and use 10 times less energy than existing solid-state memory [...]

  • Skype announces 10-person video calls
    Skype is making it easier for far-flung families to get together this Christmas. The company has announced the Skype 5.0 beta, which allows video-calling for up to 10 people at once through a new vid-chat function. On its website Skype says: “The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and [...]

  • International launch for BBC iPlayer
    Since the BBC iPlayer was launched three years ago the service has gone from strength to strength. Not content with offering the iPlayer on everything from smartphones to Internet-connected TVs, the BBC now has geographic expansion in its sights. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, BBC Director-General Mark Thompson revealed plans for an international [...]

  • HTC HD3 coming soon, but now named the HD7?
    It seems that the rumoured next smartphone in HTC’s HD line might not be called the HD3, as standard numerical progression would suggest. Engadget got the scoop on this one, with the site obtaining an internal spreadsheet from O2 which had the phone listed as the HD7. Of course, as Engadget points out, a simple spreadsheet isn’t [...]

  • Nokia gets the X-Factor app
    Yes, it’s that time of the year again, when some quite good singers, and a load of very bad ones (who could forget chicken factory bloke), turn up at the X-Factor auditions across the country to grab their fifteen seconds of fame. And if you like to keep up to speed with all things Simon Cowell [...]