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Data portability: walls go up

16.05.2008

Open data portability may remain further away than was thought, after Facebook barred Google's Friend Connect from accessing its information.

Friend Connect, one of a rash of recently-announced data portability initiatives,...

Category: Google, Other, Social media

MySpace opens up

09.05.2008

MySpace users will soon be able to share information from their profile with third-party websites, the social network has announced.

Using an opt-in system, users will be able to share profile data including basic information,...

Category: Other, Social media

Bournemouth to be UK's first 'Fibrecity'

07.05.2008

Bournemouth has been named as the UK's first city to roll-out superfast fibre broadband for domestic customers.

Communications firm H2O Networks is to use the city's sewer system to carry fibre cabling.

The first stage of the...

Category: Other