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With the holidays just around the corner, Google is rolling out some new features for its Google+ social network. Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of Google+, said that the new features they are releasing includes a tool called the noise filter, which can fine tune a user’s stream to control which posts can be seen. “We’re adding fine-grained controls...

The team behind the development of Windows 8 is continuously informing people about the new operating system’s features on the Building Windows 8 blog, and now, they have posted about the reworked copy, rename, move and delete features of the upcoming Windows version. According to the development team, the file Management features represent about 50 percent of the...

Phone manufacturer and designer Burnside Telecom has revealed today that people from the UK are split when it comes to the usage of mobile phones and landline. The survey, which had 3000 UK respondents, found that 52 percent of consumers would choose to use their mobile phones and leave their landlines for good, leaving 47 percent of respondents to not give up their landlines....

Maybe you haven’t heard of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) before but you will probably see them mentioned a bit more in the near future. ICANN is an internet non profit organisation which controls the web’s domain names among other things. Do you know how many domain name endings are available right now?  There are currently around...

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference was the place where we finally found out all about the Apple iOS 5. Now this page is where you will find out about it. That’s just how the world works these days. When will it be available? If you are American then fall 2011. If you are Australian spring 2011 and if you are British autumn 2011. Hold on, aren’t they all the...

The recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is the place where we were expecting to see Steve Jobs give us some details about the much anticipated iCloud service. We weren’t disappointed and here is our summary of what iCloud is going to give us all. The Idea Jobs started by pointing out that current ways of storing music and video files no longer work the way...

The History of Technology and War The story about how one of the famous Tunny code breaking machines had been brought back to life got us thinking about the role technology has played in war throughout the ages. Many highly respected scientists and inventors have gone along with the idea that producing bigger and better arms will mean fewer wars. While this theory remains...

The Most Influential People in Technology Who are biggest movers and shakers in the current technology scene? Here are a few names to chew over before you make your vote for the most important one below. Steve Jobs. The Apple boss has gained a lot of his reputation on his unerring ability to combine style and substance, and the overwhelming popularity of the likes of...

Today we interviewed TV and radio legend Colin Murray, known for his hit music and sports programmes and generally being a really nice guy. We were looking at the ‘do more online’ program that BT has recently rolled out with Colin Murray and Claudia Winkleman. Colin was quick to point out that he has handled things he is good at, e.g. sports, gaming and music whilst...

An interesting new story caught my eye this week, as it showed how a big an influence new technology is having on the way we speak. The scholars who compile and update the Oxford English Dictionary aren’t known for making changes easily, so we can only imagine the scratching of learned heads as they found themselves forced to admit that LOL deserves a placed in the dictionary. The...