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New Pew Survey Shows Only 7% of Americans Depend on Their Phone for Internet Access
Pew Research Center conducted a survey and estimates that only 7% of Americans depend solely on their mobile device for internet service while having no viable alternatives. Additionally, almost 10% have a smartphone with no home broadband connection, and 15% have a very limited number of options beyond their smartphones. A…
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The U.S. Can Still Legally Access Your Old Emails
Microsoft is in an ongoing battle with the U.S. government about handing over emails and they refuse to give up. The case contains two issues, emails stored abroad and old emails. What many people don’t know is that it was written in the Electronics Communication Privacy Act back in 1986…
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Virgin Joining Race To Accessible Internet With “Most Satellites Ever”
Virgin is joining the race to provide internet access everywhere by “creating the world’s largest satellite constellation”. Joining the ranks of Facebook with its internet.org and Google with its Project Loon, Virgin aims to provide high speed internet to “billions”. Virgin founder Richard Branson said in a blog post that…
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‘This Is Net Neutrality’ Coalition Fights for Global Internet Rights
In the wake of US President Barack Obama supporting a free and open internet, ISPs threatening to sue over potential restrictive legislation, and the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) stuck in the middle, trying to keep both sides happy, a coalition of diverse groups from all over the world, including Greenpeace,…
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Microsoft Targets TV Spectrum to Bring Internet Access Across India
Google’s working on Wi-Fi balloons with Project Loon, Facebook has it’s internet.org project in Africa and now it appears that Microsoft is pitching into the efforts to help bring people in impoverished nations online. The company has announced plans to use India’s unused TV spectrum for internet access. They plan to…
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Original RickRoll Video Blocked by YouTube
It appears that the popular video-sharing website, YouTube, has blocked access to a seven years old RickRoll video, preventing users from hearing the still-popular “Never Gonna Give You Up” line. The video itself was uploaded by user ‘cotter548’ and was simply titled “RickRoll’D” and had nearly 71 million views, having…
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T-Mobile Users Now Able to Gain Data Free Access to Music
T-Mobile hit the market hard at Seattle’s Paramount Theater last night, announcing some big offers to end users. Alongside their ‘free trial’ offer of an iPhone 5s to potential subscribers, T-Mobile have announced that their service will allow free data streaming to all top music streaming services, including: Pandora iTunes…
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LinkedIn Facing Lawsuit over Access of Email Accounts
LinkedIn has been ordered to stand trial by a U.S Federal judge over allegations from users that they have been sending and accessing emails without consent. LinkedIn has been found to be accessing users email accounts, copying their address books and using this information to solicit business. This is seen…
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Thecus Introduces Pydio App To Create Personal Cloud Storage
Over the last year or so we’ve been seeing a rapid growth in the popularity of cloud storage and on top of that the introduction of personal cloud solutions such as the EX4 from Western Digital has changed the way that we think about accessing our data on the go.…
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Western Digital My Cloud 2TB Review
Introduction Over the last few years, the concept of cloud storage has been growing rapidly around the globe. As you may imagine, there are a large number of applications for cloud storage, be it for a small set of personal files that are kept on the likes of Dropbox or…
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Tenda W150M Portable Wireless Access Point Review
Introduction Recently, I’ve had a look at a few portable wireless storage devices, which as a concept are fantastic in my mind and they have taken to the markets like a storm and as a result, everyone wants to hop on the same bandwagon. Whilst these small devices are great…
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SteamGuard Denies Access To Customers
Over the weekend some Steam users were affected by a glitch in the Steam Client when they had SteamGuard activated, preventing users from accessing their Steam accounts and all of the games that they own. SteamGuard is a function that users are able to use in order to protect their…
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“Rustle World Order” Attacks Anonymous Via Twitter
In today’s news we hear about a hacker group called Rustle World Order, the group was able to gain access to Anonymous’s twitter feed, and trolling their followers with a mass of postings. Though their postings do not seem to have caused much harm to the group, if any. There…
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Netgear XWNB5201 WiFi Access Point Review
Until a few months ago, I had quite a large reservation against the principle of powerline technology and up until this point I was hard fought when it came to recommending it. Thankfully though Netgear was able to change all this with the XAVB5201 kit and since then I’ve been…
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