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85 per cent of British blokes NOT on Twitter
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A recent survey of British males indicates that we increasingly use computers rather than our TVs as our main source of news and information but only 15 per cent of them are Twitterers. 75 per cent of the 5,000 British blokes in the Askmen.com survey admitted to using their PC or Mac as their main portal for information and entertainment, compared with a paltry 18 per cent now using the television. Also surprising is the finding that a whopping 85 per cent of those 5000 Brits surveyed still do not use Twitter, yet at the same time 41 per cent of them would still like to see Stephen Fry as the next Prime Minister. Evolved views AskMen.com ...
Amazon buys shoe shop for $940 million
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Online retail giant Amazon has acquired the American shoe retailer Zappos.com in the biggest buy-up deal in the company's history. Las Vegas-based Zappos.com started off as an online shoe retailer but has since moved into selling other product lines. Zappos is notorious for its 'unusual' corporate culture, with employees actively encouraged to Twitter and stories of prospective hires being offered $2,000 to turn DOWN a job at Zappos. Amazon acquired Zappos for 10 million shares of Amazon stock (worth around a cool $900 million right now). Plus, it will also give Zappos' employees an additional $40 million in cash and stock. Weak at the ...
In Depth: How to survive a drive-by malware attack
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It was a Friday evening in December last year. I'd just got in from work, fed the cat, made myself a nice cup of coffee and settled down in front of the PC to catch up on the usual Friday evening internet entertainments: Bob the Angry Flower and the B3ta newsletter. Chuckles all round, until I clicked one of the B3ta links to an apparently hilarious site, which loaded normally at first, but then appeared to kick Adobe Reader into action. A few seconds later I found that my browser was completely unresponsive. Strange. Not that strange, though. I use Mozilla SeaMonkey as my main browser at home out of sheer dogged contrariness and I'm used to it occasionally going into a ...
Yahoo overhauls UK homepage
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Yahoo! has launched its new-look homepage across the UK and Europe today, allowing users able to access other Yahoo!-owned domains and popular external sites with fewer clicks. Yahoo! claims that the redesign is the most "radical" and "fundamental" in the company's 10-year history and was initially launched in the US earlier this week. The new homepage features a 'My Favourites' sidebar on the left-hand-side of the page containing a number of apps and widgets that can be used to access sites like Yahoo! Mail, BBC News, eBay, Facebook and Flickr among others without having to leave the homepage. Personalised content Dragging the curser ...
Facebook lets you change your username... again
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Facebook has relented and let users change the username they were supposedly lumbered with after a recent option for vanity URLs. Users foolishly chose random handles of lots of random letters and then promptly kept forgetting how to type it in again, or just simply chose stupid names and instantly regretted it. However, Facebook has allowed one more change of the username, despite stating the first time that this wouldn't be allowed. Vanity all over again This option hasn't been made public, hinting that Facebook doesn't want the world to know its vanity URL plan didn't go quite according to plan. Just jump into your Facebook ...
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