Yesterday, as well as the run up to it, proved a hectic day for tech fans and news sites alike- it was Apple's annual Press Conference. What with the rumours and the (eventual) release of the Apple iPad, it meant that many of you may have missed out on other interesting news that day. So here is a briefing of the best that you might not of picked up on:1. Virgin Media want to monitor music piracy Virgin Media have been debating cutting user's internet connections if they believed copyright infringement was happening on the account. However, these plans have already been under fire by Privacy International, a human rights watchdog. Full story...
All Facebook has uncovered a recent update on Facebook that see’s the social networking behemoth allow its users to post MP3 files onto their profile pages, just as you would with a URL.
Amazon has today slipped out the release of the Kindle for the Mac, a desktop app that lets you download Kindle books you already own, and read them on your Mac.
Sad to see, and in all fairness it doesn’t seem to happen as much as it used to, but Twitter is down and it appears somewhat serious.
There’s an email going round asking Facebook users to reset their password. The email is a fake and contains a virus, do not open or follow any of its instructions.
Via Reddit. Full version on Google.Original title and link for this post: The Best Street View Image Ever – It Has My Egg Roll!
Panasonic has sold their entire US allotment of 3D Plasma TV bundles in just one week. Despite an eye-watering price of $2899.
This is remarkable, by any standard. YouTube has just announced that over it has broken the 24 hour mark for videos uploaded every minute.
This really is far too cool and an idea I hadn’t even considered. What you ask? The idea that magazine spreads of today could become mini movies of tomorrow.
To clarify, the concept is unoriginal, the first one of these was called ‘The Lost Generation.