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Google to launch All Access streaming music service

Details: Category: Internet; 16 May 2013
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allaccess Google has joined the ranks of companies offering music services with the launch of All Access which allows users to stream unlimited music for a monthly fee.

The $US9.99 pricing puts it in line with similar popular services like Spotify which costs $11.99 a month here in Australia.

The service was announced at the annual Google developer’s conference in San Francisco and allows listeners to customise songs selections from 22 different genres as well as set up their own playlists.

The World Wide Web is 20 years old today

Details: Category: Internet; 01 May 2013
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www20thumb The platform you’re using to read this story right now - World Wide Web - is 20 years old today after the technology was made available on a royalty-free basis.

On April 30, 1993, CERN – actually the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – decided the technology invented by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee to help physicists share information between universities around the world – would be offered to users for free.

As a result the web flourished and would go on to change they way we communicate.

Apple launches celebration for a decade of iTunes

Details: Category: Internet; 24 Apr 2013
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ituneslogothumb It's been 10 years since Apple opened the virtual doors of the iTunes Music Store and changed the way we buy music, movies, TV shows, apps and books.

It was April 28, 2003 when the first iTunes Store went online in the US to give people and easy – and legal – way to download digital music.

At the time the store had just 200,000 songs in its library priced at 99 cents each.

Tech Guide partners with Leading Edge Computers to provide instore reviews

Details: Category: Internet; 19 Apr 2013
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leadingedgetgthumb Tech Guide has partnered with Leading Edge Computers stores around Australia to allow customers to access our product reviews instore by scanning a QR code.

Leading Edge Computers is one of largest independent IT and technology specialised retailers with more than 135 stores Australia-wide.

The partnership between Tech Guide and Leading Edge Computers will make it possible for customers to access Tech Guide’s online reviews for a product they are browsing in the store.

Coalition outlines NBN plans - earlier, cheaper but slower

Details: Category: Internet; 09 Apr 2013
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libnbnthumb The Coalition has unveiled its plans for the National Broadband Network which it says it will deliver sooner and cheaper - but slower - than Labor’s version.

It was presented by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull at a special press conference.

The Coalition plan is estimated to be $17 billion cheaper ($20.4 billion to Labor’s $37.4 billion) because they will adopt a FTTN (fibre to the node) approach instead of Labor’s plan for FTTH (fibre to the home).

Twitter has more than 20 million fake users

Details: Category: Internet; 07 Apr 2013
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twitter7 Having a lot of Twitter followers can make you look important but a report has revealed about 20 million users on the popular social media site are fakes.

According to the New York Times, four per cent of the world’s estimated 500m Twitter users are not real.

Gaining fake followers unintentionally is common but there is also a growing industry to sell hordes of fake followers to make users look more popular and influential.

Click Frenzy is back on April 23 and prepared for the rush

Details: Category: Internet; 04 Apr 2013
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clickfrenzy3 Click Frenzy – the sale that promised to stop the nation but instead was stopped by the nation - will be back on April 23 and prepared for the expected onslaught.

Last year on November 20 the www.clickfrenzy.com.au buckled under the pressure of more than 1.5m shoppers logging into the site to grab a bargain.

The crash also affected other affiliated online stores including Westfield, Myer, Dick Smith and Target which were also brought down as well.

Facebook begins trial to run ads in your news feed

Details: Category: Internet; 27 Mar 2013
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Facebook has begun a trial that will allow businesses to deliver relevant ads to users in their news feed based on their browsing interests.

Facebook Exchange, introduced last year, made it possible for advertisers and agencies to have their targeted ads on the right side of the site on the desktop.

The trial will introduce ads in the news feed – described by Facebook as the most engaging place on the web.

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