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The US Commerce Department is currently building a report concerning internet privacy laws in America. The Obama administration and Department of Commerce are heading toward implementing a new programme of privacy protection and enforcement because of issues that have recently arisen concerning the unmonitored obtaining of confidential and otherwise personal information. (Read more…)

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This is our second entry in our seven part series chronicling the hopes tech titans have for 2011. Our first post covered Sony’s 2011 hopes, and this one covers the hopes and plans of its biggest like-for-like rival, Samsung. And if the South Korean tech giant’s 2010 is anything to go by, Samsung 2011 will be a serious force to reckon with, likely playing a big part in the collective tech push back against Apple’s unbelievable dominance. (Read more…)

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Console gamers who have long cried for iconic development studio Blizzard to show them some love may be in luck. If job listings on Blizzard’s website are anything to go by, console gamers may finally get the love PC gamers have long been lavished in, when Diablo III releases. (Read more…)

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Firefox 4 Beta version gives us a taste of what’s to come, and so far it’s pretty exciting. Featuring many features and improvements, Firefox is ready to respond to feedback for future releases of the web browser. Downloading the beta program will entitle you to regular updates as more features are released. (Read more…)

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Our story of the meteoric rise of mobile messaging platform Kik was barely cold before BlackBerry turned around and blocked the service from its platform. While details are scant on why RIM has blocked Kik Messenger, it has emerged that the mobile messaging app has been pulled from the BlackBerry App World marketplace, with the developers unsure on why, and RIM coy, too. (Read more…)

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If you read tech forums and sites like this one, you might think that only two things matter in technology today: smartphones and tablets. In many ways, they are the only things that matter in mobile computing, because that’s where the huge growth opportunities lie. So when a tech giant like HP says they’ve had ‘extraordinary demand’ for their enterprise tablet, we sit up and take notice. In many ways we wish we didn’t. (Read more…)

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Da-Lite has garnered a good reputation for delivering quality screens to the public, and has recently extended its Fast-Fold Deluxe portable screen line to produce screens in the 16:10 format. Due to the great response generated by the Wide Format computer and laptop displays, this new aspect ratio was created and is constructed of 1-1/4” aluminium tubing. (Read more…)

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Our unbridled love for Valve is well documented. The service did for download PC games what iTunes did for downloadable music, and it’s run by a publisher that ranks amongst the most influential, and gamer-centric, in the world. What is there not to love? Well, if you’re a retail store, it seems there’s a lot not to like. (Read more…)

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Technology has never been more exciting than it is today. The blurring between consumer electronics, web services, mobile computing and video gaming has never been more pronounce than it is today, with everybody wanting a piece of the pie. Some companies like Sony, Samsung, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft demand more attention than the rest of the pack, though, prompting this series of posts on what these technological giants hope (and need) 2011 to be like. First up is the Japanese consumer electronics icon, Sony. (Read more…)

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Facebook’s meteoric rise seems to continue unbridled, with the firm’s secondary market share value on a tear. In terms of valuation, Facebook is now worth more money than Ebay, becoming the third most valuable web service in the US, behind only Amazon and Google. And if you’re thinking this is both jaw-dropping and bewildering at the same time, then you are very correct. And if the Facebook phone and Facebook mail are anything to go by, this is only the start. (Read more…)

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A new Facebook application is now available to all Blackberry users, and it allows the user to ‘check in’ at any location and submit the update through their news feed for all to see. The new application, called ‘Facebook Places’, is now available for Blackberry’s Facebook 1.9 and is a geo-location tool and lets you keep track of other friends who have also checked in using Facebook Places. (Read more…)

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Adobe’s image editing software is arguably the most important consumer software suite in the world, behind only Microsoft’s Office. All forms of design, from graphic to industrial and interior design, rely on the software the company makes to do their work. Even with this universally entrenched love for what the company does, Adobe has come under significant pressure in 2010, especially with regards to the efficiency and necessity of its Flash platform. We explore how things came to be this way. (Read more…)

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e-Books have taken a step into the future with a new line of e-paper design, released by LG and E-Ink, who showed off colour screens for e-book readers at a trade show in Japan recently. The ability for these electronic displays to show colour is a first of its kind and allows electronic book readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader to deliver it’s products in colour. (Read more…)

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When technology first began to proliferate, and boost productivity dramatically, people heralded this as the beginning of an era where we’d have more personal time. How dreadfully wrong they were, with us only working harder even though social productivity has dramatically risen over what it previously was. And, considering this, it’s a joke that we still obsess over being even more productive. It is the nature of the beast, nevertheless, so people have devised many schemes to enable them to do more in less time. (Read more…)

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While some insist on arguing that tablets are not productivity devices, intelligent developers the world over have gone about their business making fantastic content creation applications for tablets. And as our understanding of what tablets are capable of improves, our expectations of what they should be able to do also becomes more sophisticated. And one of the more pressing tablet app related questions is why we haven’t seen a Photoshop – or any image editing software – for slate PCs yet. (Read more…)

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So you thought we were joking when we said that Samsung were hell bent on becoming Apple’s number one competitor in the mobile computing space. Did you think it hyperbole when many of us considered the Samsung Galaxy S as one of the top three phones available in the world today, and wondered out loud what they could come up with next? Well, if a leaked Samsung slide of what could be the company’s next phone is anything to go by, come next February, you may start agreeing with us. (Read more…)

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