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iCracked officially brings its on-demand iPhone repair service to the UK

Nov27
by on November 27, 2014 at 10:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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In this age of 24/7 connectedness, where there’s a problem, a solution is usually not too far behind. This is certainly the case with iCracked, a Silicon Valley-based company founded in 2010 that delivers an on-demand repair and trade-in service for phones and tablets. So, if you smash your iPhone screen and need it fixed pronto, you call on iCracked using the website or iPhone app (if your iPhone is working), who dispatch an ‘iTech’ to come out and fix it. That’s the essence of the service in a nutshell, at least. Now, the Y-Combinator company is officially landing in…

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The first Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer hits iTunes tomorrow

Nov27
by on November 27, 2014 at 10:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Disney, Episode VII, Insider, star wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

If you were worried you’d miss out because the first Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was only showing in a cinema far, far away, worry no longer. As well as debuting in US cinemas, the first trailer for Episode VII will be released on iTunes tomorrow. The Force is with you on #BlackFriday when #TheForceAwakens teaser hits @iTunesTrailers. — Star Wars (@starwars) November 26, 2014 The official Star Wars Twitter account has confirmed that the trailer will also appear on Apple’s trailers site. There’s no indication of precisely when the teaser clip will drop but you can expect millions of Jedi across…

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Europe wants Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ to be applied on global search results

Nov27
by on November 27, 2014 at 7:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Right to be forgotten

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The European Union wants Google to wipe search results mentioning people who invoke their ‘right to be forgotten’ across all its sites, and not just its European versions, reports Reuters. Having started accepting removal requests in Europe in May and actually wiping results in June, Google is now facing pressure to ensure that the removal applies not just to European versions of its search engine like Google.fr in France and Google.de in Germany, but also across the world on Google.com. The company previously said that it believed search results should be removed only from its search engine’s European versions, as…

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