Technology
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Monday, February 20, 2012 , by
Chris Lefkow
Shared media monitoring may threaten free speech
US lawmakers expressed concern over the monitoring of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter by the Department of Homeland Security. Department officials defended the practice, meanwhile, at a congressional hearing,...
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Microsoft’s new site to deliver ‘latest buzz’
Microsoft launched an msnNOW website designed to deliver the “latest buzz” from Facebook, Twitter, Bing and BreakingNews.com. The service at now.msn.com analyses in real time Bing searches and updates at the popular online...
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Facebook dabbles with validating user identity
Facebook last week began testing a way for celebrities, journalists, athletes and others with massive followings to have their identities validated at the globally popular online social network. “The new process enables people to...
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Monday, February 20, 2012 , by
Glenn Chapman
Twitter revamps to connect the world
Twitter announced it has finished rolling out overhauled pages crafted to boost the appeal of the message-sharing service to users around the world. “At the very core there are fewer places you have to click and less you have...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 , by
Martin Debattista
Social media directly supporting online bookings for hotels
Around a third of revenues from room nights at Le Méridien Hotel & Spa in St. Julian’s are generated online, a steady increase registered over recent years. Social media have established themselves as a leading online marketing...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Hardware review: HTC Sensation XL
How large can you go? This is the question you immediately ask on seeing and handling the HTC Sensation XL smartphone, for the 4.7-inch 480x800 touchscreen is perhaps the most noticeable feature at a glance. This model continues to build...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 , by
Hadrian J. Sammut
IT certainly does matter
It was a rather popular cartoon; a haggard and clearly exhausted man returned home, slumped across his easy-chair, complaining to his wife that, “The office was murder today! The computer system was down and we had to play Solitaire with...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Call for Maltese volunteers to check internet speed
SamKnows is calling for volunteers all over the European Union, including Malta, to take part in a pan-European research project to measure accurately the speed internet broadband. It has partnered with the European Commission to supply...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
FBI releases background check file on Steve Jobs
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a 191-page file on Steve Jobs that paints an occasionally unflattering portrait of the late Apple founder. The report was compiled during a 1991 background investigation of Jobs by the FBI...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012 , by
Glenn Chapman
Yahoo! shakes up board to give firm new life
Yahoo! announced a boardroom shakeup to breathe fresh life into a pioneering internet firm that has been struggling to re-invent itself and appease disappointed investors. Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock announced that he will step down from...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Google to make home entertainment system – report
Google will mirror Apple’s winning hardware-software formula with an Android-powered entertainment system that wirelessly streams content through homes, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal cited unnamed sources as saying Google w...
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Monday, February 13, 2012
A global view of women
From a new bride in Singapore to girl soldiers in Mozambique, a free iPhone and iPad app launched by the World Bank uses striking photographs to highlight women’s issues around the world. Teaming up with online photo encyclopaedia...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 , by
Martin Debattista
Melita eyes nation-wide Wi-Fi network
Melita is considering covering Malta with a seamless Wi-Fi network across all the territory so that internet users can benefit from the same speeds they have at home and enjoy their home broadband experience outdoors. In an exclusive...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Hardware review: HP Elitebook 2760p Tablet PC
Let’s admit it: tablets are the hottest gadget right now. Laptops have been relegated from “fun” to just “work”. However laptops remain a very important computing tool and manufacturers continue to respond to trends and people’s needs. HP...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 , by
Nataša Pantović
Internet and privacy: Is a marketing Big Brother always watching?
Online ads can build awareness and influence the decision-making process. However, the online ads dig into once privacy much more than anyone could have ever imagined. When 124 most loyal customers of a Manhattan restaurant received a disc...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
The positive experience of creating an e-learning platform
The Malta Institute of Management has won an award in the first edition of the eBusiness Awards recently organised by the Malta Communications Authority thanks to its EBLearn e-learning system, which provides interactive communication tools betwe...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
West takes internet freedom for granted – Google boss
The internet proved the only true form of free communication during the Arab Spring and yet the West has come to take the freedom it confers for granted, Google boss Eric Schmidt said. In a stout defence of internet freedoms at the World E...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! to fight e-mail spam
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: e-mail spam and “phishing” attacks. The web giants said they have teamed up with Bank of America, PayPal and others to combat spam...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
FimBank launches new website
FimBank has announced the launch of its revamped website, www.fimbank.com, which has been transformed into a modern and dynamic trade finance portal. “We recognise the need to be at the forefront of technological innovation in order to give the b...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
A rival to Google?
An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant. The new site entitled Volunia allows users to vi...
