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Dealing With Social Media Trolls

Posted 26 August 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day | No Comments

Social Media is such a huge part of modern day life that if you aren’t connected in some way, or don’t know anyone who is, you are in very a small minority. The power of social media has become so vast, that it has even been discussed in parliament, following its role in both encouraging, [...]

Google Pays $500m In Drugs Row

Posted 25 August 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day | No Comments

Search engine giant Google has agreed to pay out a massive $500million (£305million) settlement after facing accusations that they allowed Canadian pharmaceutical companies to use their adwords service to advertise in America. The payment of this sum will mean that the company avoid any legal action, as the importation of most drugs from foreign pharmacies [...]

Facebook New Privacy Options

Posted 24 August 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day | No Comments

Social networking giant Facebook have unveiled major plans to change the way privacy is dealt with on the website. One of the long term criticisms of Facebook has been its lack of privacy, with any settings off hidden away behind countless obscure menus and options, however this move will apparently change that. The new privacy [...]

Skype Buys GroupMe Messaging Service

Posted 23 August 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day | No Comments

Internet calling application Skype, which was purchased by Microsoft in a massive deal earlier this year, has reportedly completed the purchase of mobile group messaging service ‘GroupMe’. This acquisition, of which financial details have not been disclosed, is expected to be used by Skype to simply improve their group messaging, which at the moment is [...]

Google+ Hangouts Is Added To Youtube

Posted 22 August 2011 | By | Categories: Day to Day | No Comments

Google have officially added the ‘Hangouts’ feature from their Google+ social network directly to their popular video sharing website Youtube. The hangout feature, which is already available on Google+ itself allows for group webcam chat with friends, via text or audio, and lets the group watch Youtube videos together in the chat window, and now [...]