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EMI has taken on a former senior Google exec, who plans to drag the music label into the modern digital age, relaxing its draconian position on file sharing and online piracy.
Douglas Merrill, previously Google’s chief information officer, now takes on the position of president of EMI’s digital group, claiming in an interview this week that [...]
A Saudi Arabian woman was killed by her father after he found her chatting with a man on Facebook, reporters [...]
Intel has unveiled the second-generation model of its Classmate PC at its Developer Forum in Shanghai this week.
The machine uses the same [...]
Microsoft’s Robbie Bach has announced new updates to the Windows Mobile platform, including threaded text messaging and ‘desk-grade’ web browsing.
With the likes of Apple’s [...]
Great digital photos deserve to see the light of day, not just to be hidden away in the dark recesses of your hard drive. So why is it that digital photo printing services are still very much overlooked?
Coupled with a decent broadband speed, the products and services offered by some of the best online printing [...]
Independent regulator Ofcom’s research into social networking not only provided worrying statistics about how children use the sites, but also enabled them to come up with five categories of [...]
BT has been accused of conspiring to conduct secret tests of targeted-ads technology on its customers as far back as 2006.
According to documents seen by The Register, BT secretly [...]
When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a US$2.9 million settlement with online marketing firm ValueClick this month, it was a record monetary settlement under the 4-year-old CAN-SPAM Act.
That announcement came just days after so-called spam king Robert Soloway pleaded guilty in Seattle to a number of criminal charges. Soloway, who faced one count related [...]