Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Square is, nearly, open for business. Clearly not content with having just one world-changing innovation under his belt, his new mobile payment service lets vendors collect cash from a usual credit card using a mobile phone.
It’s not been a good day for free content fans. Earlier today we told you how Google is planning on charging for TV on YouTube and now we bring you the news that the search engine supremo is to offer newspaper publishers an option to limit the number of free clicks to their content.
Data centres. They’re not glamorous and they’re certainly not eco friendly, gobbling up electricity like Robbie Coltrane tucking in to finger food at a free buffet. But that’s all about to change. A Finnish IT firm is to open the most eco-friendly data centre on earth – situated in a bedrock cave underneath a 19th century Eastern Orthodox Cathedral in Helsinki. Not your average file vault. Read on for all the info.
The Apple rumour mill is whirring into gear again with the latest Mac Tablet gossip starting to fly in the run up to Christmas. This time, it’s a new name for the most hyped gadget to come out of Cupertino since the iPhone three years ago. So what do we know so far about the MacTablet?
Has the morning dragged on? Not to worry: we’re hear to lift your spirits with a stash of all the latest tech news from around the world. Want to know what’s been going on? Read on and find out in the lunchtime lowdown.
Facebook has confirmed a new privacy shake-up, letting users select exactly who gets to see the individual pieces of content you slap onto profile pages. The social networking giant has also announced plans for simplified privacy settings, dropping regional networks and making it easier to control the details you post.
It might not be the first turn-by-turn satnav effort to land on Apple’s blower, but the TomTom iPhone app is without doubt the most talked about. The Dutch mappers’ effort had some teething problems at launch, but now it’s up and running just dandy, the question is, is it really worth the price? Read our TomTom iPhone app review now and we’ll tell all.
