Boss of Google UK has house removed from street view
While the complaints come rolling in about Google’s Street View feature the boss of Google UK has made sure that his £2 million home in West London is not visible through the service.
Street View allows you to virtually stroll down any street on the database and at anytime turn 360 degrees as if you were [...]
CBS complain about YouTube bloggers
There many media groups who utilise the video site YouTube for clips and even reporting, yet one media organisation The Hoop Doctors have found that their YouTube account has been suspended causing them serious problems.
The problem starts with the complaints from CBS who have filed copyright complaints regarding a clip from a basketball match.
This is [...]
Making a wiki work
Surprisingly the first “Wiki” style pages started to appear during 1995, the term is used for a collection of pages that are produced by a number of different people in order to create an informative page.
Yet it seems that business has never embraced this part of the internet as they have done with blogs etc. [...]
The first computer working again
A computer built at Manchester University back in 1952 may have been the first of its kind, but the developers of the new machine which was named the Mark One or occasionally it was referred to as simply “Baby” had no idea what the machine could do.
However, it was found that if they entered hundreds [...]
Firefox overtakes IE6 and is catching IE7
It may not be much of a record but it is still a mile stone none the less, finally Firefox 3 has overtaken Internet Explorer, but before anyone starts desk thumping it is only IE6 so far but they are catching up at a steady rate.
With IE7 as the next target is will not be [...]
Apple planning major event
It may be early days just now, but it seems that Apple are planning what is being called a “Major Event” although there are no precise details the initial date has been set for the 24th March and is being named as a desktop hardware event.
As with many of these types of things, there [...]