Without a doubt the biggest talking point on ToyNews Online and our Twitter feed this week has been the mooted Gangnam Style toy. The Psy action figure can recreate all the dance moves from the video, which has scored over 420 million ...
Tags: gangnam style, Toys, Blog, Toynews
What you see before you is the first in a series of regular blogs that the ToyNews team - myself, Samantha and Dominic - will be writing for you every Friday. We very much hope that you’ll enjoy them and would love to hear what you ...
Tags: Toys, blog, techpet, top drawer
A planned network of regional patent offices and the effects of new legislation are expected to slow the recent proliferation of patent lawsuits between big-name tech companies, Rebecca Blank, U.S. acting secretary of commerce, said on ...
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This week, consumer electronics vendors are once again congregating in Berlin for the IFA trade show, where products based on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 and RT are expected to set the trend. The next couple of months will be an ...
The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
Tags: Blocked, cyber attack, Gmail, Google, Security
Google has said it is shutting down its online marketplace for TV ads, and will focus instead on web advertising including its own Google TV. The TV ads programme, launched in 2007, was promoted by Google as a great way for small ...
Tags: Google, Google TV ads, Online advertising, TV ads
Thanks to the popularity of Apple's iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the Objective-C language has overtaken C++ in Tiobe's monthly assessment of programming language popularity. Objective-C, the language used for developing applications to ...
Tags: popularity, Apple, iPad, iPhone mobile devices, C++
Google,working in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority,posted about 5,000 images of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls online Tuesday. Pieces of the text going online include one of the earliest known copies of the Book of ...
Israeli and Palestinian forces have taken to the Internet to accelerate their wartime propaganda via social media. As the forces continue their conflict on the ground, they’ve also launched a war of hashtags, English-language tweets ...
Tags: cyber war, Facebook, Internetsocial media
Editor's note: This story has been changed since it was originally posted to correct the price of the Nexus Q. It is $299, not $199. Google's new consumer media streaming device, the Nexus Q, poses little threat to Apple's growing Apple ...
The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)'s consumer website has released a new YouTube video, Meet Norman, that shows how bottled water bans are having an unintended effect by shifting consumption to less healthy drinks packaged ...
A new approach to mobile Internet protocols could improve the usability and reliability of mobile applications. At the annual Usenix tech conference last month in Boston, two MIT researchers formally unveiled a new protocol, and a remote ...
Tags: mobile Internet protocols, new approach, MIT
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with Samsung’s mobile executives — and likely discuss the latest patent clash with Apple — while in South Korea for the launch of the Nexus 7 Android tablet. At a press ...
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The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
Tags: Cyber spying, Middle East, Skype, Spying, Syria, video
Google has bought Wildfire Interactive,a social media marketing start-up that provides a platform for organisations to manage all of their social media output on one system. The software is used to help companies run and measure their ...
Tags: Google, Social Media, Software, Wildfire