You Tube’s parent company Google has announced on its blog that they will start to roll out automatic captions across the site. The machine generated captions will initially be generated in English and be found on 13 channels such as National Geographic and Columbia. Ken Harrenstin is the software engineer behind the technology and is [...]
A special conference is being set up starting with Belfast to search for the next biggest internet phenomenon to rival the success of sites like Twitter and Face book. It’s being hosted by a group of internationally renowned designers who are looking to call on local talent to help create the next big application. The [...]
Co founder of twitter, one of the biggest social networking sites, has voiced opinion that newspapers should become ‘radically open’ if they want to make money online. This comes as a Rupert Murdoch goes ahead to block Google from his websites. Rupert Murdoch has said that search engines could not use material from the papers [...]
The social networking website Twitter has confirmed that it has now closed a significant round of funding. Evan Williams a co founder of the site in a blog post that the site has now secured money from five investment firms. Rumours in the industry claim that a $100 million has been secured by the firm [...]
The billionaire Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will try to block Google from using the news headlines and content from his companies. The speech was revealed to Sky News Australia that he will explore ways to remove stories from his newspapers from Google search indexes and Google News. He has previously said that he [...]
Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are leaving children vulnerable to abuse from paedophiles by refusing to embed a free online safety button on their sites. This leaves the their sites allowing users to report abuse. Jim Gamble who is the head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) which devised [...]
Some of the highest profile bogglers for Twitter have been targeted by Hackers. It has announced that 33 accounts have been hacked into including those belonging to President Obama and Britney Spears. This follows a phishing scam on the site which encourages users to click on a fake twitter webpage. The first signs came on [...]
Hackers have managed to get into the e-mail system of one of the leading climate research unit. Emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) including personal emails appeared on the internet last Thursday. A spokesman from the university has confirmed that the system had been hacked and information taken without permission. [...]
As more and more people turn to the internet to get the latest news updates the daily papers are beginning to feel the pinch. Rather than paying for the news people are getting free content online. Larry Killman from the World Association of Newspapers is determined that this doesn’t mean the end for the papers. [...]
