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Giphy (Bizarrely?) Calls GIF Images ‘Cringe’ and ‘Out of Fashion’
I have to admit that when someone mentions GIF images/animations, my initial thoughts do generally tend to go back to the days of the internet in the mid to late 90s. – At a time when dial-up connections could barely handle a 5MB download, let alone a 500MB video, GIFs…
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UK Edges Closer Towards Online ‘Passports to Porn’
For the last three years, the UK Government has regularly discussed/proposed plans to introduce terser age verification checks when it comes to accessing online pornography websites. To date, however, one of the biggest issues hasn’t so much been the concept, but exactly how this could be applied. – Following a…
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EFF Calls Google’s Stance on Neo-Nazis ‘Dangerous’
There is much discussion about the freedom of speech in the US after the far right demonstrations at Charlottsville, Virginia. The events led to violent clashes and the death of 32-year old paralegal Heather Hayer. Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer denigrated the victim, which resulted in the website being terminated.…
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Google Chrome Employs HTML5 on Most Websites
Google has been consistently refining their Chrome web browser to provide users with a more enjoyable user experience without impacting on stability. This attitude has pay dividends and the browser easily eclipses other options when it comes to the market share numbers. Saying that, Chrome isn’t particularly lightweight and certainly…
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Amazon Payments Global Partner Program to Take on Paypal
Amazon is a popular platform for many things, with their websites offering everything from the kindle to mass ordering your pets favourite type of food. With recent steps in the video game market, courtesy of Lumberyard and even sharing educational materials for schools, the company look like it will stop anytime soon…
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UK Culture Secretary Compares Ad Blocking to Music Piracy
Ad blocking plugins have become a topic which polarized opinions and causes some friction between content creators and their readership. Websites like eTeknix rely on advertising revenue to pay staff wages, and help produce detailed content. On the other hand, we always want to make sure that the experience is user-friendly…
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ABS-CBN Awarded $7 Million in Two Online Piracy Cases
ABS-CBN has won two cases in a row against copyright infringing websites. The sites in question were not hosting the material themselves but were built with the intend to view it. Linking to third party sites hosting the actual content, the site owners made their income through advertisement revenue based on views.…
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Spanish Sites See Drop in Traffic After Pulling Out of Google News
Well isn’t that a surprise – analysis of traffic to a number of high-profile news websites in Spain reveals that their traffic has dropped ever since Google News was closed in the country all thanks to a new law we reported on last week. The law, which was partly brought…
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Google News Says Goodbye to Spain Thanks to New Law
Google has taken the decision to stop providing its news aggregation service in Spain following the passing of a new law. Legislation imposed by the country means that Google could be fined up to €600,000 for using content from news websites without paying for it. That is essentially what the law…
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Microsoft Azure and Xbox Live Suffer Major Outage
Yesterday Microsoft encountered quite a significant outage across many of its online and cloud-based products. Even its own website partially went down. The outage mainly affected the company’s Azure cloud platform, meaning people couldn’t access files, virtual machines or in some cases their own websites. The issue seemed to occur…
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Google Tells You When Web Pages May Not Work on Your Device
From Monday the 14th of July, Google will now indicate pages that may not work with your device when using their search engine. This will save mobile users countless frustrating searches, trawling through non-mobile compatible websites. Wondering if you may be affected? Google’s release stated: “For example, Adobe Flash is not supported on iOS…
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Cross-Platform DDoS Botnet Warning Released By Security Researchers
A new DDoS Botnet has the ability to infect both Microsoft Windows along with Linux-based systems, according to the Poland Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Unlike many cyber-based attacks, this botnet is only interested in launching DDoS attacks to knock certain servers and websites offline. The Linux-based botnet reportedly handles…
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Redesigned Google Maps Can Now Be Embedded In Websites
Google has finally added in the option for users to embed maps featuring the overhauled design that it debuted back in May. While the new Google Maps worked just fine for searching and browsing when it was first launched in beta, it was missing a number of features and easy…
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Moving sites can be a nightmare
Bit of a weird title we know, but it’s a suitable one in our opinion and probably leaves you wondering what it’s all about, and so that’s exactly what I’m going to tell you. For those who aren’t so tech-savvy, you may not be aware how sites, much like ours…
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