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Vodafone Australia customers on the company’s new Red plans will soon gain access to 4G in Vodafone’s networks in the UK, New Zealand, and parts of Europe for just AU$5 per day extra. The company’s roam like home options were launched last year, and would only allow customers to ro
Netflix’s attempt to bring its video streaming service to Time Warner Cable set-top boxes “is on hold now that the cable operator is being sold,” Bloomberg reported today, citing anonymous sources. Comcast last week announced it has a deal to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion
PlayStation Plus was introduced four years ago as a premium subscription service that would net subscribers free games and game discounts every month. It was totally unlike Xbox Live in that online play was still free and Plus was just a nice perk. With the PS4, PlayStation Plus is a lot more like X
Europe could create its own communications network to prevent data passing through the United States and falling into the hands of surveillance organisations such as the NSA, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Speaking on her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said Germany had been in dis
Australia is edging toward a “graduated response” system after the attorney-general declared his country’s government would consider such measures to help curb online piracy. George Brandis, who serves in the dual role of attorney-general and minister for the arts, told a gathering last Friday he wa
Two weeks ago, a group posted almost 13,000 IP addresses its members said hosted vulnerable Asus routers. They also published a torrent link containing more than 10,000 complete or partial lists of files stored on the Asus-connected hard drives. The guerilla-style hacking disclosure comes eight mont
Samsung has filed a lawsuit demanding $9.4 million in compensation from the British appliance maker Dyson because it claims it was depicted as a copycat. The lawsuit, filed last week in the Seoul district court in Korea, were filed against Dyson because its “previous litigation has hurt Samsung’s co
People have talked about Dogecoin having potential as a micro-currency for transactions and ‘tipping’ on the Internet, and it seems like it is gaining credibility among investors. Dogecoin founder Jackson Palmer says he has rejected $500,000 investment proposals following early discussions with at l
If you’re looking to unplug from the grid, you might want to head to Eigg, a small island off the coast of Scotland. Eigg intends to become the first island to rely entirely on renewable energy sources, Al Jazeera reports. The island, part of the Hebrides archipelago, is in the process of creating a
All presidents of past and present have their great moments including this latest one from PayPal president David Marcus, who threatened to internal PayPal employees in the San Jose, California offices that weren’t regularly using or recommending the PayPal app to use the PayPal app more or fi
Tagging is a useful features for blogs, music, and even games as it helps identify and refine the search process. For example tagging a game with “RPG” would allow those searching for an RPG game to come across said title, but unfortunately it seems that some have gotten a bit carried away when it c
When you are sleeping, chances are you have plugged your phone in to charge for the night. However since you are sleeping, it also means that your phone is not being used, meaning that there is a lot of unused processing power. But what if you could “share” that processing power in the name of [&hel
