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  • Americans Spend Over A Day A Month Online

    Americans Spend Over A Day A Month OnlineWhen it comes web surfing, the US are the world leaders with the average user spending almost an hour a day on the web – nearly twice as long as Australians, according to data from Nielsen Online.
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  • The UK Hearts Mobile Social Networking

    The UK Hearts Mobile Social NetworkingAccessing social networking websites on your mobile is apparently the “next big thing” according to the spods at Neilsen Research, with UK users leading the European vanguard.

    Their research has revealed that 1.7 per cent of UK mobile phone subscribers (that’s 810,000 users) have used their Internet enabled handsets to visit popular social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace during the first quarter of this year.

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  • LG Secret: It’s A Mobile Wii: Podcast

    LG Secret: It's A Mobile Wii: PodcastAfter all of the hubub at the LG Secret, the KF750, global launch died down a little in London, we caught up with John Barton, LG UK Sales and Marketing Director, to find out more about the LG Secret.

    After bits and pieces about the naming of the product —
    Why is it called secret? His take – the phone reveals itself to the user as they use it — we got on to talk about the M-Toy feature.

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  • Louis Savy: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: Audio Interview

    Louis Savy: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: Audio InterviewThe London Sci-Fi film festival is on this weekend and sounds like it’s well worth a visit after we spoke to Louis Savy, the Festival Director, last week. They’re tying up with Archos too to show some of the short films.

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  • Radiohead Pay-What-You-Want Album, A ‘One Off’

    Radiohead Pay-What-You-Want Album, A 'One Off'Thom Yorke has said that the ‘In rainbows’ album that surprised the world — and frankly gave them a near incalculable amount of free publicity — was a ‘one off.’

    Yorke went on to say “I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” which we read as, our contract came to an end with our record label, we needed to get some pretty big attention and it worked. Now everyone in the world has re-remembered who we are, we’ll go back to the old model of selling records to people.

    There’s been various reports of how many people paid for ‘In Rainbows’, varying between a third and how Italy had 75% pay for it.

    Yorke went on “We are about that direct relationship (now) because we are big enough to establish that.”

    Enough said.

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  • FaceBook In The Real World: Video

    FaceBook In The Real World: VideoWe’ve all seen the rise of social networks and their replacement by others, as the fashion changes.

    Many devoted their lives to MySpace when it arose, collecting as many MySpace ‘friends’ as possible to show others of their ‘friends’ just how ‘popular’ they were.

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  • GTA4: Readers Review (99%)

    GTA4: Readers Review (99%)You’ll all be aware of the hoopla around the release of Grand Theft Auto 4, or GTA4, as it’s now known. We thought we’d take a different tack to other publications and publish the review of one of our readers, Andrew N.

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  • Transparent Computer Screen Photos

    Transparent Computer Screen PhotosYou may well be aware of the transparent desktop crazy that’s been around a few years (we used a photo earlier this week).

    People take photos of what’s behind their computer screen, then load these photos up as wallpapers on their computer desktop – then take another photo of the real world and the computer screen.

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  • EMI Legal Threats Over eBay Kylie Single

    EMI Legal Threats Over eBay Kylie SingleThe EMI Group has sent a legal letter to a UK user selling a promotional copy of the soon to be released Kylie single,’ In My Arms’ on eBay

    Although most people are aware of the litigious actions of the music business, particularly in the US where they took legal action against their customers, accusing them of copying music, EMI UK seem to be going into overdrive on this one.

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  • Third Of UK Surfers Using Online Banking

    Third Of UK Surfers Using Online BankingIn spite of endless security scares, and reports of dire service, it seems that us Brits are just loving that online banking thing, according to new research from online stat-shufflin’ dudes Comscore.

    Their figures for January 2008 show that nearly 11 million users connected to at least one online banking service, adding up to around 33 per cent of the total UK online population.

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