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I have no smart phone, so not familiar with how the Apps you can download for free work. In my case, the app was on a Kindle Fire. But after a couple of weeks, I started seeing advertising on the screen. Is this fairly normal for the free apps? Do paid apps not behave this way?

This advert for IE9 has recently started showing on UK TV. Looks pretty cool IMO...

Today's changes may seem enormous to some of our normal members. But they have been done to improve traffic and streamline the site. You will find that core functionality is easily accessible and still around. We will be testing the current look for a little while with this platform. Some of...

Bad news coming over the forum wire. Due to the unforeseen circumstances of economic worldwide recession and a massive drop in visitor levels according to both our independent analytics data, as well as internal monitoring data, we have taken the unusual and emergency steps of enacting...

Google’s Form 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Link Removed, contains an unexpected $500 million charge for the first quarter that wasn’t reported in the company’s quarterly results. The filing says the charge was taken this month, and applied to the quarter ended...

Foot traffic at Microsoft's retail stores must far lower than expected if the company has decided to start going door-to-door. This evening Microsoft will kick off a new advertising campaign intended to persuade consumers to upgrade their old "good enough PCs" to new ones running Windows 7. More...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

Over the past four seasons, "Mad Men" has become a pop culture phenomenon, putting viewers in a martini-soaked time machine back to the golden age of the advertising industry. But for one viewer, the show is more than a glimpse back in time -- it's a glimpse into the family photo album...

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) supports two separate technologies for restricting access to information related to a user's online activity. One of the privacy features was recently prompted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Both technologies involve the way...

Link Removed due to 404 Error YouTube announced that it bought Internet television company Next New Networks to improve content for the Google-owned video-sharing website. The New York City-based startup was launched four years ago and is home to popular networks, such as "Barely...

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Freeware verses crapware: Optimization programs. Hello everyone, Starting today, I’ll be writing a series of articles on the comparisons of freeware, crapware and commercial software, and how freeware often times comes out on top. For my first article, I decided to compare the...

The back-and-forth between AT&T and Verizon over the quality of their wireless services ended up making its way into some high-profile primetime commercials. But it's not the only fight that Verizon has been waging with competitors. The company also took issue with advertising run by Time...

Yves St Laurent perfume ad banned in Britain Britain's advertising watchdog has banned an Yves St Laurent perfume advert, which showed a woman appearing to simulate injecting drugs. A total of 13 viewers complained about the TV commercial for the perfume Belle D'Opium, which shows a...

10 most stupid mistakes in high-tech Why are some of the largest transactions in the world of high technology does not destined to happen, but the most promising products and remain only in the plans? Because the relevant people and companies either do not understand what is missing, or is...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Sega has announced that it’s testing consoles called “Toylets” in urinals around Tokyo. The novel hardware asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games. For now, Sega has installed Toylets in...

You know those ads where some vacant kid declares that Windows 7 was his idea? Well, they have them in the UK, too. read more Link Removed