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Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has criticised I.T education in the UK during his ‘MacTaggart Lecture’ at the ‘Edinburgh International Television Festival’. The 56 year old became the first none broadcaster to speak at the lecture, and used this time to express his feelings, saying “If I…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Search giant Google has been given a ‘To-Do’ list by the UK information commissioner to improve their privacy issues. Google had promised reforms of their privacy last year after it emerged that the Google maps street view cars had collected large amounts of personal information from peoples Wi-Fi connections. The commision did…

Senior Facebook executive Sean Ryan has criticised Google’s new social network Google+ saying it lacks originality, users and any appeal for software developers. Ryan, who is Facebook’s ‘Director of Games Partnerships’ said that “Google has emulated aspects of our system, which is what they have the right to do. We…

New statistics have shown that around 25% of 18-29 year olds claim to be using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter less than when they started due to ‘boredom’ with the ‘superficial’ friends and concerns about privacy concerns that the networking brings. In a stark contrast however, users…

Social networking giant Facebook has released an iPhone and Android dedicated messaging app which they say they want to use to ‘replace’ text messaging. It is already possible to send instant messages through the Facebook website, however this newest app allows the messages to be sent directly to phones via…

Popular Micro-blogging platform and second most popular social network in the world, Twitter, have ruled out the possibility of closing the accounts of people believed to have used the service to organise attacks during the English rioting or to incite others to commit acts of violence. A spokesman for Twitter…