Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers. Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service. Followers are available in blocks starting at $87 (£53) for 1,000. The biggest block uSocial is selling is 100,000 people. USocial [...]
The new owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files. Global Gaming Factory (GGF) paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF’s Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more [...]
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After more than 18 years studying the Sun, the plug is finally being pulled on the ailing spacecraft Ulysses. Final communication with the joint European-US satellite will take place on 30 June. The long-serving craft, launched in October 1990, has already served four times its expected design life. The Esa-Nasa mission was the first to [...]
The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death. Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared it was under attack. Millions of people who searched for the star’s name on Google News were greeted with [...]
A Swedish court has thrown out a request for a retrial by the four men behind The Pirate Bay website. The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement in April and face jail sentences and hefty claims for damages. The Pirate Bay’s lawyers called for a retrial when it emerged that one of the [...]
A trial version of Microsoft’s free anti-virus software has been launched in the US, China, Brazil, and Israel. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) promises to provide people with basic protection against viruses, trojans, rootkits and spyware. The software giant has been criticised in the past for failing to include free security software with Windows. Its first [...]
Action needs to be taken to ensure that those living in rural areas of the UK are not left in the broadband slow lane, a report has warned. The report, from the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC), makes a series of recommendations to ensure that rural homes can keep pace with urban areas. It [...]
As protests continue in Iran, details are emerging of the technology used to monitor its citizens. Iran is well known for filtering the net, but the government has moved to do the same for mobile phones. Nokia Siemens Network has confirmed it supplied Iran with the technology needed to monitor, control, and read local [...]
The videogame trade association, Tiga, say the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) rating systems has "room for improvement". Tiga’s chief, Dr Richard Wilson, said changes were needed to make the logos "instinctively recognisable". "There needs to be an advertising campaign and publicity as to what these pictograms actually mean," he said. The government backed [...]
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Protests have forced China to clarify whether net-filtering software has to be used on every new PC. From July, every PC sold in China was supposed to be supplied with the Green Dam Youth Escort software. The software was created to stop people looking at “offensive” content such as pornographic or violent websites. But [...]
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