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Microsoft to Turn off it’s Windows Live Messenger on 15 March

2013 will mark the end of Microsoft’s one time popular but outdated instant messaging tool Windows Messenger. Microsoft instant messenger log-ins would no longer work and users are directed to switch to Skype which was ...
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NO GPS IN CHINA?

Let’s rephrase that. China has GPS, but that’s not the only thing. China’s government and military hasn’t relied on the US-built Global Positioning System for quite some time. They have their own thing called Beidou (Co...
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UK’s “New Year Honours” list includes a video game legend, a digital champion and a knight

The name says it all. The UK’s Honours system, in a tradition which continues all the way from 1890, has finally given due credit to British citizens who have made their mark upon the techscape – including Ian Livingstone, ...
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The Raspberry Pi gets an Appstore

The Linux-based $35 pocket computer now has its own little app ecosystem! The Pi App Store is a moderated channel that’s set to hold both free and paid apps. It runs as a program on Raspbian, the Pi’s pint-sized version [...]
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Megaupload strikes back

  The Internet (or, more specifically, a part of it) rose up some time back when the popular data storage site Megaupload was taken down by the US Department of Justice. Its founder Kim Dotcom was raided, arrested and cart...
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MasterCard and Standard Chartered launch next-gen credit card – with a keypad

MasterCard’s latest offering: a credit card with touch-sensitive buttons and an LCD display. The DisplayCard, as this new card is called, is manufactured by NagraID Security and looks and functions almost exactly like a norma...
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UK’s first 4G service goes live across 11 cities

Brits have a talent for aiming high. Everything Everywhere (the result of a merger between Orange and T-mobile) officially launched UK’s first-ever 4G service. EE’s 12 Mbit/s service is now available to subscribers across 1...
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FACEBOOK HITS ONE BILLION USERS

Facebook, the social network (of course) reached one billion users just over three hours ago. That’s right, folks – that’s almost an eight of the world’s population. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted t...
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AMD launches new generation of processors

AMD has officially unveiled its second generation of A-series APU’s. Formerly codenamed “Trinity,” these APU’s combine four CPU cores with a Radeon HD 7000-series graphics core on the same chip. Now there are si...
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Microsoft refreshes it’s logo

Microsoft’s new logo is intended to invoke the onscreen tiles of its new touch-based software for smartphones and tablet computers.   Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Re...
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Facebook App Center

Facebook software engineer Aaron Brady has revealed Facebook’s App Center, in a post on Facebook’s developer blog, which he said will give “developers an additional way to grow their apps and [create] opportunities for m...
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Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

JOSH CONSTINE Twitter has just finalized a deal to hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine, a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you’ve missed. Th...
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