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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:
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:
While the rest of the world continues to see men dominating, the technology industry seems set to change that. I investigate how Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Meg Whitman and Joanna Shields are paving the way for the rest of the business community.
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With the new James Bond film Skyfall out this month, we visit the real-life Q at Spymaster in London to try out some of the coolest spy gadgets around
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Android-based games console Ouya raises more than $2.5m (£1.6m) in just 24 hours through the KickStarter website, which aims to drum up funding for technology startups.
Setting a new KickStarter record, the $99 Oula games console is powered by a quad-core Tegra3 processor with 1GB of RAM and runs on Android to make game development easy for a huge range of developers who have already worked with the operating system on mobile and tablet platforms.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Victims of the DNS Changer malware think they have better things to do than check their internet security, and as a digital society we're dealing with malware in completely the wrong way.
These are the thoughts of Paul Vixie who worked with the FBI in intercepting servers used by a gang of Estonian hackers who made millions of dollars from redirecting internet users away from the websites they requested, directing them to advertisements instead.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Online retailer Amazon is developing its own smartphone to take on the Apple iPhone and handsets that run the Google Android operating system, according to media reports.
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Android's Face Unlock security on the Samsung Galaxy S3 can be tricked into unlocking the phone by showing it a photograph of the owner.
In a test carried out by IBTimes UK, we found that the Galaxy S3 cannot distinguish between a photograph and a real person, leading us to suggest users should select a more secure way of locking the phone, such as with a PIN or password.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Facebook has made yet another amendment to its S-1 filing, adding a further 96 million shares, pushing its initial public offering up to a potential maximum of $18.4bn (£11.5bn).
In what is the eighth amendment to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook has also increased the number of shares allowed for over allotment, up from 50.6 million to 63.2 million.
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AlistairCharlton writes:
Users' data on the seized MegaUpload website will be saved for two further weeks, according to the website's lawyer, despite being shut down by US authorities.
