YouTube buys social bookmarking firm Delicious from Yahoo
YouTube has bought the online social-bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo for an undisclosed sum.
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Right to reply: Will the PSN hack undermine credit card confidence?
Sony recently admitted that the personal information of 77 million of its customers, 3 million of them Britons, is now in the hands of hackers. That’s the same as unofficial estimates of the UK’s population. Justin Schamotta is a senior staff writer for Choose.net, looks into the implications of one the biggest data heists in … [Read more…]
Guest comment: 2 year contracts leave Brits stuck with ‘obsolete smartphones’
If you could upgrade your phone right now without paying a penalty, would you go ahead and get that new iPhone or Android smartphone? If you answered yes, you wouldn’t be alone, in fact Retrevo recently discovered that a large number of U.S. phone owners say their phone is either currently out of date or … [Read more…]
‘Gambling.com’ becomes most expensive domain name of the year
Sedo, the online domain specialist, today announces that it has brokered the sale of gambling.com for $2.5 million, the highest price for a web address this year.
‘First-ever’ church service launched on Facebook
Internet church ‘St Pixels’ will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook next week (Tue 10 May, 1 and 3pm).
‘TimeForTelly’ site offers cross platform TV guide
A new TV search website, TimeForTelly, has launched, designed for offer UK consumers a one-stop platform to catch up on the week’s TV, whether on digital or online.
Fast and Furious 5 gets viral ‘3D’ YouTube campaign
MediaCom, Feref, Universal Pictures and MediaMind have teamed up to deliver a brand experience on YouTube to promote the opening of Fast and Furious 5 in movie cinemas across Europe, Australia and Mexico.
Only 20% of royal wedding traffic ‘comes from UK’
William and Kate may be a trending topic on Twitter, but only 20% of traffic is coming from the UK, with the bulk – a massive 64% – coming from North America, according to social media research carried out by marketing and technology agency LBi.
Sony admits to PlayStation data theft: Have credit card details been stolen?
Sony has finally admitted that account details, logins and online IDs for 77 million registered Sony PlayStation Network users have been compromised, following a hacker attack that has brought the whole gaming network down for over a week.
Right to reply: PlayStation Network attack ‘one of biggest privacy breaches to date’
The theft of 70 million online gamers’ personal data in one of the largest privacy breaches to date, according to William Beer, a director in PwC’s information security practice.