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Google Add to the ‘Google Tool Belt’

Fledgling gesture-recognition software company Flutter announced that it has been “Acquired by Google”. Founded three years ago in San Francisco, Flutter uses a standard webcam to recognise user movement and hand gestures to control apps such as iTunes and Netflix.…

Android 4.4 – KitKat Surprise

Android, the Google owned OS for Mobile technology has announced that the next version of the Android OS software (version 4.4) will be named Android KitKat. This is somewhat of a surprise within the industry as previous indications were that…

New Invoicing Policy

According to a survey produced by OKI we, as small businesses are a long way off being the paperless office we once thought was just around the corner. In an effort to get at least one step closer to this…

Catching or Caching Internal Issue’s

Amazon is the most recent of the high profile online businesses to be having “Issues” Services where offline to visitors of the US & Canadian Shopping Emporium and where greeted with “Oops, we’re very sorry” and a “500 service unavailable”…

Microsoft Made to Change Name of SkyDrive

After a legal battle challenge by BSkyB, Microsoft is to change the name of its cloud storage service worldwide after a “transition period”. Although Microsoft had originally said that it would appeal the High Court ruling made in June 2013…

The Button is Back Windows 8.1 Release

Announced at its annual developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that not only was the new release of it operating system Windows 8.1 available to download (in test version) but that the start button has been reinstated after…

Twitter Expands User Notification Features

Twitter has added yet another feature to it’s notification process. The micro-blogging website now notifies a user when another micro-blogger (twitter user) favourites a tweet they were mentioned in. This update alone is nothing grand nor does it require a big media…

Apple 1 to be Auctioned at Christie’s

The auction is an online exclusive auction and ends July 9 2013. The Apple 1 is part of a number of  other Apple antiquities, including the company’s first attempt of a word processing and spreadsheet program (on floppy disk of course), as well…