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AlistairCharlton writes:
Popular US Bitcoin exchange Tradehill has suspended all trading of the virtual online currency, as financial regulators continue to grapple with the legalities of Bitcoin.
In a message on the site's homepage, Tradehill cites "banking and regulatory issues" for its closure, which it assures users will be temporary.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Samsung will announce a smartwatch called Galaxy Gear during its press conference at the IFA consumer technology show in Berlin on 4 September, but not a single image of the device has yet leaked; here's everything we think we know so far.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
A trio of German computer scientists have revealed how to jam the mobile phone network of an entire city with just 11 modified phones.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry is considering selling off its successful BBM messaging service into a subsidiary that would operate independently to the rest of the company.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
In the second episode of Inside Tech City, Alistair Charlton visits Google Campus, where budding entrepreneurs and startups can rent desks and make use of a canteen, while socialising and sharing ideas with each other to help their young businesses grow.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
A single developer is responsible for more than 46,000 of the roughly 120,000 applications in the Blackberry World app store, including more than 1,000 city guides and hundreds of audio books.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Mark Zuckerberg plans to connect a further five billion people to the internet, bringing affordable apps and mobile web access to the two-thirds of the world who are not yet online.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
In the first episode of Inside Tech City, Alistair Charlton visits Huddle to speak to co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell about how east London's startup cluster is different to the last tech bubble, and how the small companies based there have the potential to drive the country's economic recovery.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Elon Musk has admitted his 600mph Hyperloop transportation system, due to be announced on 12 August, is "extremely speculative" and doesn't plan to build the mysterious project himself.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
By 12 August, Tesla founder Elon Musk will have announced plans for a new form of transportation which will take passengers 300 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour.
Such a claim would usually be swatted away as impossible, but Musk has a habit of proving critics wrong, having revolutionised internet banking with Paypal, made the electric car a success with Tesla and proved that reusable rockets are a solution to keep the space race alive with SpaceX. This is also a man who wants to retire with a one-way ticket to Mars.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Facebook is continuing with plans to launch news feed video adverts, but has faced setbacks with CEO Mark Zuckerberg twice delaying the project amid fears of tainting the user experience.
Reports claim Facebook will soon add 15-second video adverts to users' news feeds in a bid to lure big spenders away from traditional television ads and onto the social network.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Twitter has responded to pressure from users to improve how the social network deals with abusive messages, in the wake of feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez and MP Stella Creasy both being threatened with rape.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Apple's share of the British smartphone market is growing thanks to cheaper, older versions of the iPhone being bought by first-time smartphone users.
Sales data collected by London-based Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveal that Apple's share of the market jumped from 25.3% to 30.5% for the three month period ending 30 June.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
A petition campaigning for Twitter to improve its measures against online abuse has received more than 55,000 signatures in two days.
The petition was set up in support of feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, who faced a torrent of abusive tweets, including threats to rape and kill her, after successfully campaigning for a woman's picture to appear on a banknote; Jane Austen will appear on £10 notes from 2017.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Tech City doesn't need to grow the next Google or focus on creating London's next £1bn company, says startup CEO and former Ofcom director William Webb.
