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News But Google gets the advantage of software that's available from all sorts of computing devices - your own, a friend's, a kiosk in an airport, your iPhone - as long as you have a network connection. Adobe Systems wants to... [17 Nov 2008]
BBC adds series stacking to iPlayer
News Now, you'll be able to join a series half way through following a friend's recommendation and catch up on all the previous episodes - or watch them all in one go over a weekend. The millions of TV addicts hooked on the... [27 Aug 2008]
Are your 'frolleagues' ruining your career?
News Business networking site LinkedIn is warning about the growing phenomena of "frolleagues" - a colleague who requests you as a friend online. Be willing to turn down a friend request from a... [14 Aug 2008]
Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News Many drivers can't imagine life without their trusty sat-nav - but the motorist's best friend is being blamed for causing hundreds of thousands of accidents and near-misses. The gadget has also caused motorists to... [22 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News Location-based services (LBS) are not just going to be big news for consumers - with the likes of friend finders and local search - but are set to play an increasingly important role in enterprise. ABI Research's... [17 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch
News And searching the name of a friend could provide links to the social-networking sites the friend uses. announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday,... [03 Apr 2008]
Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits
News A user's status message can also be updated on the go, and friend requests can be made and responded to. BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it... [02 Apr 2008]
Facebook ups privacy and says it wants to Chat
News Naomi Gleit, Facebook's product manager for privacy and internationalisation, previewed the updated options, which include a new "Friend of Friends" option based on social proximity - not unlike LinkedIn profiles, in... [19 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Once people decide to buy something from their friend's wish list they are directed to the Amazon.com checkout page to make the purchase. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site... [14 Mar 2008]
Millions of Britain's PCs going to waste
News Only one in 10 Brits claimed their discarded computer was recycled via a manufacturer's recycling facility and four in 10 said they gave their old computer to a friend or charity. Millions of serviceable computers in the... [10 Mar 2008]
Facebook goes all chocolaty
News Facebook users add the application to their profile then choose the gift - such as a Mars bar - and the friend they want to send it to before paying using their PayPal account. You can now send your Facebook friends... [14 Feb 2008]
Youngsters told: Wise up with social networking
News And on top of this, 80 per cent of girls aged 16-17 said they accept friend requests on their social network sites from people they don't know and more than 70 per cent surveyed are unconcerned that their personal... [23 Nov 2007]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News By enabling "more richly configured systems" and "utilising the capacity of these systems to a higher level than previously possible", virtualisation is the CIO's best friend, according to the analyst. [14 Sep 2007]
Mobile tracking services get parental thumbs-up
News Tracking applications could be a lucrative location-based service for mobile operators to exploit according to research. Mobile tools that allow individuals to be located and tracked would appeal to two distinct groups according to the... [09 Aug 2007]
WIN: Tickets for England v West Indies
News All you have to do to win is send us your funniest story about a job interview gaffe which you have suffered, witnessed or heard of from a friend or colleague. Fancy spending the weekend basking in the sun* as England... [12 Jun 2007]
