By Alex Hudson BBC Click a single video of a piano-playing cat has got over 20m YouTube views Despite YouTube having the tagline "broadcast yourself", the most viewed clips are often corporate videos or those featuring internet celebrities, many of whom now earn over $100,000 a year. And with the site investing more in live and professionally-produced content, has it moved on from its amateur origins? In September 2006, college student Philip DeFranco set up [...]
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11 may 2011 Last updated at 17:51 ET Share this page By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Samsung's laptop will be one of the first Chrome powered PCs to hit the market Google has unveiled the first laptops that will run on its Chrome operating system. The machines, made by Acer and Samsung, will go on sale next month. Unlike conventional computer systems which use installed software like Microsoft Word, Chrome is [...]
This week web reviewer Kate Russell replaces Click’s host, Spencer Kelly, with an Android app she made herself using Googlelab’s App Inventor. She also reviews Parkopedia, a site that holds a database of more than 15 million places to park in over 20 countries and Stardoll.com, a slick dress-up game and social space where young fashionistas can get their retail fix without spending any money. And following the recent explosion of online security hacks, she [...]
12 May 2011 Last updated at 20:34 ET Share this page by Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine Newly released photographs show how a team of World War II experts disrupted Nazi plans to bombard Britain – with the help of 3D glasses like those in modern cinemas. Hitler's deadly V-1 and V-2 rockets were early but effective weapons of mass destruction – unmanned flying bombs which brought terror to southern England. But their impact could [...]
12 may 2011 Last updated at 16:24 ET Share this page mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism over Facebook's own privacy policies It has been revealed that Facebook embarked on a smear campaign against rival Google. The social network has admitted that it hired a PR firm to plant anti-Google stories related to user privacy. The details came to light when one blogger approached by PR firm Burson-Marsteller published the e-mail exchange. Burson had been touting [...]
by Dan Whitworth Newsbeat technology reporter The hideout house of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan A downloadable map featuring Osama Bin Laden's hideout has been developed for the video game Counter-Strike: Source. Created by developer Fletch, the software map is called fy-abbottabad after the town in Pakistan where the al-Qaeda leader was found in hiding. He was killed during a raid by elite US Navy Seals on Monday 2 may. The map features [...]
By Dan Whitworth Newsbeat technology reporter The hideout house of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan A downloadable map featuring Osama Bin Laden's hideout has been developed for the video game Counter-Strike: Source. Created by developer Fletch, the software map is called fy-abbottabad after the town in Pakistan where the al-Qaeda leader was found in hiding. He was killed during a raid by elite US Navy Seals on Monday 2 may. The map features [...]
Skype had previously planned a share flotation Microsoft has confirmed that it has agreed to buy internet phone service Skype. The deal will see Microsoft pay $8.5bn (£5.2bn) for Skype, making it Microsoft’s largest acquisition. Luxembourg-based Skype has 663 million global users. in August last year it announced plans for a share flotation, but this was subsequently put on hold. Internet auction house eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn in 2006, before selling 70% of it [...]
By Alex Hudson BBC Click Sony’s shares have fallen significantly in the aftermath of the security breach Following the exposure of the Sony PlayStation 3 security flaws – and with so much of our data stored online – are we making it too easy for criminals to get hold of our information? When over 100 million people’s details were garnered illegally from Sony recently, users were up in arms about their prized information being leaked. [...]
This week web reviewer Kate Russell revisits her teenage years of making mix tapes to share all her favourite music, using 8tracks.com . If you feel you need to get in shape after spending too much time in front of your computer, Gym Technik NextGen offers a helping hand to Blackberry owners. There’s a round up of the new wave of web app stores from Chrome and Mozilla as modern computing migrates ever further into [...]
