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Back in November 2010, the European Commission launched an antitrust investigation into Google after two websites complained. Now, the results are in – and Google could face a suit on its hands, after it found four areas where it may be considered an abuse of its market dominance.
Bing, for some reason, has a different look for its search results when you switch to the US version. It has a more ‘Metro’ look with plenty of whitespace and not that horrible gradient at the top – like every other international version of the search engine. Well, now, it’s getting some new things – and like usual, will only be available to the United States.
Today Facebook have released the newest version of their Facebook Messenger. Just as you thought your life wasn’t connected enough, the new update includes two major features, Read receipts and message locations. If you send a message from your phone and have location services on, the app will send across your location. The read receipts is pretty self explanatory, once the other side has read your message, it will tell you! Gone are the days wondering if someone has read your message….
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Small bloggers and publishers have avoided being regulated in the Convergence Review, despite another inquiry wanting those to be part of a ‘News Media Council’ body that would regulate news content’s accuracy.
Reading some comments on the web about the new Google Drive, the entire web has decided to go all crazy and examine the terms and service of both companies. And some people have been offering this as the point of difference between the two services.
Google Drive has finally officially launched, after years of speculation, and is available now or, for some users, very soon.
The service, which has literally been rumoured, and then reportedly killed, over 4 years ago has finally arrived with Google Docs, Google+ and Gmail integration, a better API, 5GB of free storage and native file-syncing, basically like DropBox or SkyDrive offers.
It’s a big day for the cloud, isn’t it? Microsoft, only this morning, released a preview for their Dropbox-style desktop clients for SkyDrive, while also (disappointingly) cutting out 18GB of data for new users, leaving you with only 7GB of free space. It’s still competitive, but sadly it shows that the 25GB was only for show with the previously web-only interface.
Microsoft has today added a sync client to SkyDrive that works with Mac and Windows. Similar to DropBox, the new SkyDrive apps create a folder, called SkyDrive, which provides a native syncing functionality.
Flashy-ad-makers-who-happen-to-spend-a-lot-of-money-that-really-don’t-highlight-the-cause Invisible Children is still pushing the KONY 2012 cause, despite it’s April 20th ‘Cover the Night’ event failed to get those social media clicks into real poster-pasting action. A new video posted highlights a brand new event organised on November 3.
Just in case you were doubting the already obvious signs and reports that Google Drive exists and is coming very soon, an Android developer has accidentally shown that he has a Google Drive application installed on his Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Melbourne-based startup incubator York Butter Factory, which received great fanfare when it open its doors in mid-October last year, has caused controversy with a recent tweet that has been labelled as ‘sexist’ by many on Twitter.
Another streaming service is coming to Australia – this time, it’s US-based MOG. However, unlike Rdio and JB Hi-Fi, MOG has partnered with Telstra to stream its entire music catalogue of music to Australians.
LogMeIn is joining the long list of companies to offer cloud storage with its latest venture Cubby – and will give you 5GB of storage for free (as opposed to the 25GB given out on SkyDrive, or the 2GB on DropBox). It is now in open beta, with LogMeIn rolling out the invites to asking users.
VEVO is finally expanding to Australia after the company – a joint venture between the two biggest record labels – signed a new deal with an Australian company called MCM Entertainment. However, is it just too little, too late for Australians to embrace the service?