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The world’s biggest social networking site has launched a slimmed-down version for people with slow or poor internet connections. Facebook has said the Lite site will be faster and simpler because it offers fewer services than the main site. Initially it is meant to support users in developing countries and where bandwidth constraints make [...]
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A massive multi-player version of the popular property game Monopoly has been launched online. Monopoly City Streets, developed by toymaker Hasbro, will go live on 9 September for four months. The free game uses Google Maps or the open source Open Street Map as the playing board. The toymaker claims it will be “the [...]
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The publisher of a flight simulator site targeted by a hacker in May says it has presented a file of evidence to UK police identifying the perpetrator. Avsim said it had “incontrovertible evidence” about the hacker’s identity. The attack wiped data held on two servers and “effectively destroyed” the site, which is still being rebuilt. [...]
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Music streaming service Spotify has expanded its service to mobiles. Phones using Google’s mobile operating system Android, and iPhone users, can access the firm’s four million tracks. The application will also allow users to save more than 3,000 songs to play while offline. However, unlike the free streaming service for computers, mobile users will [...]
Shildon in County Durham has been labelled an internet crime hotspot with a higher percentage of fraudulent purchases than anywhere else in the UK. Last year, 24% of all internet purchases there were made using stolen credit card details, according to security company The Third Man. Durham Police say investigations are being hampered because [...]
Microsoft has overturned a ban on it selling its flagship Word software, imposed after a patent dispute. The block was imposed by a Texan court following a ruling that its use of formatting language XML in Word 2003 and 2005 infringed patents. Under the ruling Microsoft was ordered to pay Canadian patent owner i4i [...]
The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the world’s books and create a vast online library has intensified. Authors have until Friday to opt out of the $125m settlement the search giant made with authors and publishers. The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from [...]
Britain’s oldest original computer, the Harwell, is being sent to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley where it is to be restored to working order. The computer, which was designed in 1949, first ran in 1951 and was designed to perform mathematical calculations; it lasted until 1973. When first built the 2.4m x [...]
Google has issued an apology after a "miscalculation" caused a blackout of its Gmail service, affecting the "majority" of its 150 million users. The firm described Tuesday’s two-hour outage as a "big deal" and said it was investigating ways to ensure it did not happen again. The disruption was caused by an error during "routine [...]
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