Posted By Malcolm Owen On December 20, 2011 at 4:02 pm Comments Off

It’s the end of the year and so time for Google to attempt  to sum the entire 12 month passage of time with a “most viewed” list from YouTube. I say list. I actually mean lists, as they have managed to categorize them and show the breadth of content that it’s users create.
4th on the [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On December 3, 2011 at 9:30 pm Comments Off

Have you not been to YouTube in the last week? I’m sure like most of the internet, you must have your daily fix of cat videos, so you must have. If you haven’t, you may be confused by the new look to the front page. It’s probably hated by everyone online as “Change is Bad”, [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On November 8, 2011 at 11:02 pm Comments Off

I fancy an icecream sandwich.  Sadly, all I have is a press release about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus being released in the UK on the 17th of November.
Featuring FacePalm Facelock (Unlocking your handset by showing it your face) a 720p 4.65″ HD Super AMOLED display, a hefty amount of Google+ integration and a thickness of [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On August 16, 2011 at 9:49 pm Comments Off

Google (small internet company that deals with search and advertising) has bought Motorola Mobility (The phone firm that everyone loved when they made the Razr, and that’s about it unless you fancy their Defy Plus…) for $12.5Bn. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on whom you hear.
Some say that this is [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On July 16, 2011 at 7:10 pm Comments Off

In what could be described as a collection of corporate entities attempting to have their cake and eat it, newspapers from Belgium are complaining about being delisted from Google.
Under normal instances, this would signal the death of a website, but in the case of  Copiepresse (the organization dealing with copyright management for the papers) they [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On October 4, 2010 at 7:29 am Comments Off

Google are looking to kill the humble Jpeg by introducing their own format of image compression weirdness: WebP
Based on the VP8 codec used for video, WebP apparently reduces the file size by 39% on average, saving you, your ISP and the website you’re downloading those classy images from money, which will certainly help those on [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On August 25, 2010 at 9:52 pm Comments Off

Google are now making it as simple as they perceive it is possible to make a phone call to anyone in the world: from Gmail.

Whilst in Gmail, users in the US can now call people by clicking “Call Phone” in their contact list and either selecting the person’s name that they want to call (if their number is [...]