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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

May12
by on May 12, 2014 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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With another week starting, that means it’s time to say goodbye to this past weekend and the two days peace away from your computer screen. But, if you secretly miss staying in touch with the latest technology news and features, then make a coffee, put up your feet for a few minutes, and catch up on everything you missed from the last two days. You can thank us later. News from The Next Web over the weekend Amazing Jailbreak Tweak Brings True Multitasking Support To The iPad Mozilla Defends Plans For Sponsored Tab Pages After User Backlash Facebook Testing Shortcut Numbers to Help You…

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Remember the Anonymous news site project on Indiegogo? A rogue member allegedly took off with $30k

May12
by on May 12, 2014 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Anonymous launched a crowdsourced funding campaign on Indiegogo last year that raised over $55,000, seeking to create a dedicated news site rather than using its existing Tumblr and Twitter accounts. The hacktivist collective had planned for the news site to bring together breaking news, reports and blogs from independent reporters online under its Your Anon News (YAN) branding. A campaign video had also noted it would give citizen journalists the ability to livestream events as they were taking place too. However, the plan for the Anonymous news organization seems to have gone wrong, and it’s only now — more than a year…

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Remember the Anonymous news site project on Indiegogo? A rogue member allegedly took off with $30k

May12
by on May 12, 2014 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

anonymous
Anonymous launched a crowdsourced funding campaign on Indiegogo last year that raised over $55,000, seeking to create a dedicated news site rather than using its existing Tumblr and Twitter accounts. The hacktivist collective had planned for the news site to bring together breaking news, reports and blogs from independent reporters online under its Your Anon News (YAN) branding. A campaign video had also noted it would give citizen journalists the ability to livestream events as they were taking place too. However, the plan for the Anonymous news organization seems to have gone wrong, and it’s only now — more than a year…

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BSkyB channels will be on Virgin Media for at least five more years, coming to mobile-users too

May12
by on May 12, 2014 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

BSkyB (‘Sky’) has extended its distribution agreement with Virgin Media, meaning Virgin subscribers will have access to Sky’s content slate for at least five more years. The deal includes Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Sky News, Sky Movies and, important for many, Sky Sports. With the new agreement in place, however, this also now includes Sky Sports 3 HD, Sky Sports 4 HD and  Sky Sports F1 HD, with the HD incarnations of Sky Sports News and Sky News to follow. Virgin TV Anywhere launched back in November 2012 to rival BSkyB’s Sky Go online/mobile service. Sky entertainment channels…

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