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Facebook Launches Verified Celebrity Accounts

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK Tech

You used to know you had made it when you got invited to turn on the Oxford Street Christmas lights, or open an envelope. It's the digital age, ba...

Twitter Updates Privacy After Copying Entire Address Books

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK Tech

Twitter says it will make privacy guidelines more explicit after it admitted copying entire address books from people's smartphones and storing the in...

Mobile World Congress 2012 Preview: Top Ten Tech Things To Expect

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 16.04.2012 | UK Tech

Mobile World Congress 2012, the trade show for all thing mobile phones, communications, play and advertising is like the fashion week circuit for the ...

Myspace Gains 1 Million New Members

The New York Times | Melanie Hick | Posted 16.04.2012 | UK Tech

Since December, when it introduced a new music player, the site has signed up one million new users, the company is expected to announce on Monday. An...

Privacy Score Website Tracks How Much your Favourite Sites Know About You

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 16.04.2012 | UK Tech

You're careful not to reveal crucial personal details, but if you imagined your life online was in any way totally private, think again. A new web...

Chrome Browser Now Available For Android Phones

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 15.04.2012 | UK Tech

Sick of your iPhone-owning pals bragging about how hot their browser options are? We are too. Get one up on those bores with the new Google Chrome...

St Valentine's Day Google Doodle

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 15.04.2012 | UK Tech

Is there such a thing as too much lovey dovey cuteness on St Valentine's day? Google says, no way, and has thus animated it's famous doodle to celebra...

Top Six Most Dangerous St Valentine's Day Scams

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 15.04.2012 | UK Tech

Are you a fool for love? Whether you're desperately seeking someone, or head over heels in co-dependency, don't be an online ninny today. St Valen...

Naked Snow Lovers' Facebook Page Banned - PHOTOS

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 14.04.2012 | UK Tech

Who knew that posting photos of yourself naked, in the snow, would get you kicked off Facebook? Well, probably anyone who has read the Facebook te...

Jan von Holleben's Super Cute Giant Machines

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 14.04.2012 | UK Tech

Your phone and laptop may be shrinking, but the machines that rule the dreams of photographer Jan von Holleben are tonnes of fun. Jan von Holleben...

Top Things You Need To Know About The Acta Protests

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 13.02.2012 | UK Tech

Protesters against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) took to the streets of Europe on Sunday to protest the act which aims to streamline ...

Steve Jobs Gets A Grammy

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 13.04.2012 | UK Tech

Steve Jobs's passion for music was honoured at the 2012 Grammy Award. The posthumous Trustees Award was in honour of his creation of Apple iTunes. ...

Google Home Entertainment System

Guardian.co.uk | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Google is planning a major push into home entertainment with a new music streaming system controlled by Android smartphones....

Cue Songs, Peter Gabriel's Venture To Save The Music Industry

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Tech

Can Peter Gabriel save the music industry with his new digital music project, Cue Songs? EMI has just been sold for a handful of brass knockers, to...

Top Eight Pinterest Tips

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK Tech

Have you start pinning yet? Do you know your dip-died French braid from your red velvet whoopie pies? Once you join Pinterest you will. Then, like man...

Boris Says We'll Never Have A Zuckerberg. Will Nobel Prize-Winners Do?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Tech

Boris Johnson says the UK will never have a Mark Zuckerberg, but would a range of Nobel Prize-winners and quietly successful tech firms do? In Joh...

Boris Johnson: We'll Never Have A Zuckerberg In The UK

Telegraph | Melanie Hick | Posted 07.04.2012 | UK Tech

Of all the appalling confessions I have made on these pages, what follows is perhaps the most damaging. I have never used Facebook. Never in my life h...

Anonymous 'Hacks Into Phone Call Between Scotland Yard And FBI'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech

A phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard has been intercepted by hacking group Anonymous, revealing a conversation about cybercrime. The cal...

Kim Dotcom Denied Bail And Admits Female Prisoners Made Unwanted Advances

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech

Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload has been denied bail in a New Zealand court, The Guardian reports. The court in Auc...

Hackers Break UK Bank Security

BBC | Melanie Hick | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Tech

Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. ...

Twitter's Nine Golden Rules

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick, Andrea Mann | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech

Are you sitting on just a handful of followers? Have you never had a re-tweet? Do people tweet at you with the hashtag #pleasestoptweetingyoumakemewan...

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Online Game Thief Locked Up In Real Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech

The Dutch Supreme Court has determined that online video game theft is just as much of a crime as real life theft. Two thieves who stole from a Ru...

Facebook IPO: Top Five Things You Should Know

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook has just filed an IPO request in the United States to raise US $5 billion in the largest tech float since Google's. The social media firm ...

Read Mark Zuckerberg's Full IPO Letter

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Tech

To accompany Facebook's IPO file delivered to the US Securities And Exchange Commission, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a compelling letter to let would-be sha...

Facebook Launches £3 Billion IPO

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook has today announced its IPO plans to become a publicly listed company. The float will make Facebook the largest tech IPO since Google. The...