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Google has shut its newspaper archive project down, after digitising around 2,000 titles.
The search engine had hoped to create a mass digital library of every article ever written, but Google has announced that it will not be processing any more files.
A spokesperson for Google said, “We work closely with newspaper partners on a number of initiatives, and as part of the Google News Archives digitization program we collaborated to make older newspapers accessible and searchable online.
“These have included publications like the London Advertiser in 1895, L’Ami du Lecteur at the …

Third-party Twitter applications will have to ask users’ permission before processing their private messages following a change in the company’s permissions policy.
Twitter users often use applications (apps) designed by third-party companies to send and receive private messages on Twitter. Twitter will now force some companies to ask users’ permission to serve them their messages and deny other firms any access to the data at all.

“Apps that you use to access your direct messages will ask for your permission again,” Twitter announced on its online blog.

“By the middle of June, applications …

The machine-readable web has come a step closer thanks to open sourcers in the Drupal community.
Drupal 7 has received sign-off – finally – adding the ability to embed semantic meta-data into sites using the open-source content management system.
That means Drupal 7 is adding native support for the W3C’s RDFa – a set of XHTML attributes that are designed to turn human readable data into data that’s readable by machines. That could be data such as a location’s map coordinates. RDFa is already being used by Google (see here).
In a statement …

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Mozilla has pushed out another beta of Firefox 4 – this time one with over 1,000 bug fixes.
Other changes include a simplified bookmark sync set-up, ‘polish’ to the add-ons manager and the usual bout of speed, performance and stability enhancements.

Download @ mozilla.com/firefox/beta/
For those who demand it be installed properly a PPA is also available

Skype is the process of recovering from a major outage that left users across the world unable to log into the VoIP service on Wednesday.

Many computers that act as supernodes, the systems that provide directory information on Skype, were taken offline “by a problem affecting some versions of Skype”.

As a result many Skype users were unable to contact supernodes and therefore unable to log onto the service. Call volumes dropped by half on Wednesday from a typical daily volume of 20 million a day as a result. The snafu affected …

Microsoft has issued a warning about a serious vulnerability in all versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer.
Code to exploit the bug has already been published though Microsoft said it had no evidence it was currently being used by hi-tech criminals.
A workaround for the bug has been produced while Microsoft works on a permanent fix.
Code injection
The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer’s memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets – …

Sony has launched a new music and video download service as it gears up to challenge Apple’s iTunes.
The announcement, made at the IFA technology fair in Berlin, was timed to coincide with an Apple media event in the US.
The cloud-based service will be available on PlayStation 3s, Bravia TVs, Blu-Ray players and Sony’s personal computers.
Initially it will offer movies. Music will be added at the end of the year.
Sony’s online services platform Qriocity has offered video-on-demand in the US since April this year but will now be available in Europe.
The …

Kinect-esque motion control could soon find its way to the iPad as tech firm Elliptic Labs prepares to show off its Touchless Gesture User Interface technology at CES 2011.
Having teased similar technologies for some time and demoed an unbranded device at IFA earlier this year, Elliptic Labs now appears ready to officially out its motion-sensing iPad dock prototype that will allow users to control their tablets without tarnishing the device with fingerprints.
Made possible by ultrasound technologies that create a 35cm “touchless zone” field around the connected device, the dock prototype …