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Village sticks fingers up to Google Streetview

A small village in Buckinghamshire is up in arms and threatening to take on the Google corporation for continuing to show their village on Streetview. Residents of London Road in Broughton had already...

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Ballmer and Simpson: Twins separated at birth?

Speculation has been rife in the darker recesses of the internet, and one question has been waiting to be asked for years and we at TechEye are not afraid to ask it. Have Steve Ballmer and Homer...

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Google admits Gmail is too slow

Google has admitted that its Gmail service is far too slow at a panel discussion at the SXSWi festival in Austin, Texas. Google’s Senior Staff Software Engineer, John Perlow asked the audience at the...

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Nexus One handset delayed

Google’s highly anticipated first mobile phone, the Nexus One is likely to be delayed and miss its original estimated UK shipping deadline of mid-March. The delay to the handset comes after hopes were...

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Dotcoms turn 25

IT journalists were today left frantically scrabbling for some way to describe the 25 year anniversary of the first registered dotcom address. “Usually when something to do with the internet hits a...

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Facebook more popular than Google in US

Social networking website Facebook.com is now more visited in the US than Google, according to figures from Hitwise. While Facebook has only just over taken Google with 0.03 percent more traffic, it is...

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Nokia, Siemens hinder Iranian human rights, says Nobel winner

German engineering giant Siemens and Finnish telecoms firm Nokia have once again been accused of helping the Iranian government monitor calls and texts. Nobel prizewinner Shirin Ebadi, speaking on...

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Steve Jobs is focus of TV satire show

Our fruit-obsessed, gadget making overlord, Steve Jobs will be the inspiration for a new TV show called iCon. The turtle-necked one will be satirised in the show that will be shown on US cable channel...

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Digital Economy Bill meets online democratic resistance

The Digital Economy Bill has reignited the British sense of democracy with several online petitions springing up to urge MPs not to pass it. The Bill, which has been labeled at best ‘controversial’ has...

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Japanese develop 200 page a minute super scanner

Libraries could become extinct sooner than we all thought, now that those clever Japanese scientists have developed a scanner that can digitise up to 200 pages in just a minute. Until now only superman...

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Scientist create a cloak of invisibility

Boffins have created an ‘invisibility cloak’ for hiding very small pieces of gold. And no, this doesn’t mean they were pocketing it. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany was able to cloak a...

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Amazon, Barnes & Noble announce iPad app plans

Book publishers are getting ready for a battle of the iPad apps, with Amazon and Barnes & Noble already developing their own apps. Despite not having any access to the giant iPhone-like device,...

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Gordon Brown slammed for supporting Oracle, Microsoft

This morning our celebrated Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to some collected press about how he plans to save the nation £4 billion before 2012 on the government’s back office functions. Open source...

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Mozilla releases urgent Firefox upgrade to fix bug

Mozilla Firefox users are being warned to update their browsing software as soon as possible as a critical flaw has come to light. Mozilla has responded to the concern by releasing version 3.6.2 of its...

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Darling to announce 50p levy on phonelines in Budget

Alistair Darling’s budget will be announced tomorrow and much of the focus will be on the UK’s ‘Digital Britain’ spending. Above all, what our eyebrowed Darling will announce will also, obviously, have...

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iPad to get over 30,000 free eBooks

The iPad will contain over 30,000 free eBooks from public digital library, Project Gutenberg, as well as paid titles from most major publishers. According to a report from AppAdvice, Project Gutenberg...

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Internet-shy spies face the sack

Older MI5 spooks are facing the sack, if they are not computer-savvy enough, clearly flouting the age discrimination laws. The Security Service is laying off senior-citizen spies in order to hire new...

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Dell targeted by Greenpeace

Dell buildings in Copenhagen, Bangalore and Amsterdam have been stormed by Greenpeace, according to local news reports. These headquarters of the computer giant were targeted by the activists to...

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Pac-man found on the Death Star

Pac-man has been discovered on one of Saturn’s moons, scientists have revealed. The amazing discovery has been found from the Cassini spacecraft thermo-imaging camera taking pictures of the moon’s...

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Lib Dems blast rivals in new online campaign

The Liberal Democrat Party has finally launched its online campaign for the upcoming UK elections. The ‘Labservatives’ website claims to be from both the Labour and Conservative parties, with...

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