Archive for October, 2009

T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) & deCarta (the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry) have come together to give T-Mobile customers benefit from true mobile and web convergence as part of T-Mobile’s web’n’walk service.

Announced today, this strategic partnership will roll the next generation location and navigation services towards the end of 2009, according to the local needs of each market. Initially launching in the UK, Germany, Austria, and …

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US has announced new guidelines which will not please many bloggers (especially the ‘mommy’ or ‘mummy’ bloggers) as all payments, advertisements, freebies and samples for reviews, must now be declared.  In plain English this means that any payment or free items that have been given to the blogger in exchange for a review is now declarable.

These new regulations have been added to the FTC’s “Guides Concerning The …

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Today is a landmark for both YouTube and the Nobel Prize Foundation.  The foundation has been running since the very first award in 1901 and has been gathering archives and information which they collate on their official YouTube channel.  This channel is dedicated to showing the world inspirational stories, achievements, discoveries and inventions throughout the Foundations almost 100 year history.

The live streaming will …

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An astonishing 48% of women would ban their partners from buying a games console according to PS3PriceCompare’s latest research of over 1000 women.

1316 women were surveyed and asked their thoughts on their partners buying a games console, a staggering amount, just under half of them, said they would ban the consoles from the house, even though a third of them secretly admitted they would like …