The rumours circulating that Wikileaks is about to be abandoned by its editor aren’t true, a spokesperson for the site has said.

Wikileaks defines itself as a “multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public.”

The rumour was started by a posting made by a “Wikileaks insider”, which accused editor Julian Assange of planning to cease updating the website, stating that Assange was set to move to Iceland to open a new site.

The Wikileaks spokesperson told The Next Web: “We just read your story and can basically only make one comment: Do not feed the troll. There is no substance to this posting at all. We will be issuing a press release soon I think in order to address this bulls**t campaign once and for all.”

The press release in question is expected to be released soon.

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Ebay has come up with a new app for the iPhone which allows its users to sell items when they’re away from home.

Vendors will be able to list items for sale in super-swift time, using barcode scanning technology (via the iPhone’s camera), and they’ll be able to manage items, and organise delivery when sold.

The barcode scanning technology sounds particularly cool, as with a simple snap, you can have your item up there with all the relevant details automatically filled in (an album’s track list, for instance).

Of course, you can also put a picture up to illustrate your goods using the iPhone’s camera as well.

Furthermore, the app puts a number of useful tid-bits of information at your fingertips when listing, such as the average price of the item in question.

The Ebay selling app is a free download, and you can grab it as ever from the iTunes store.

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More news from the Apple grapevine – or should that be Apple tree – this morning, regarding the latest hot topic, the next iPod Touch.

We reported last week on the John Lewis leak, which claimed that Apple was planning a 5 megapixel camera, with a flash and HD video recording capabilities, for the upcoming version of the device.

It seems that this might turn out to be much as it sounded, rather too good to be true, according to sources who have spoken to 9to5 Mac.

These apparently well informed sources say the camera will be a 3.2 megapixel affair, more along the lines of the one to be found nestling in the iPhone 3GS.

It does also make sense that Apple would want to leave its new iPhone 4 with a technological lead over the iPod Touch.

The John Lewis source also claimed the upcoming iPod Touch will have a gyroscope, and second camera plus FaceTime, though there’s no clarification on those points of speculation.

We should find out for sure in September at the latest, when Apple is likely to confirm the relevant tech specs.

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Google has entered the final testing phase with its App Inventor, a tool which allows anybody to create applications for the company’s Android operating system.

It requires no programming knowledge whatsoever, working with self-contained blocks of pre-designed code which users can combine to visually construct their app.

Each small building block contains a nugget of code designed to tackle a specific task, such as storing information, repeating actions, reading your GPS coordinates, or talking to a social networking site.

These can then be put together to create, for example, an app which tells your friends on Twitter exactly where you are in the world every hour, on the hour. Should you want to create such a thing.

Google gives further examples – it’s easy to create basic games like whack-a-mole, or indeed something a little more complex, such as a guiding a ball through a maze using the smartphone’s tilt sensors.

The App Inventor can also use phone features, and Google suggests producing an app which periodically texts “missing you” to your loved ones. A bit of a rum suggestion that one, as you clearly aren’t missing them if you have to get your mobile automatically contacting them for you.

Google wrote on the App Inventor page: “The educational perspective that motivates App Inventor holds that programming can be a vehicle for engaging powerful ideas through active learning. As such, it is part of an ongoing movement in computers and education that began with the work of Seymour Papert and the MIT Logo Group in the 1960s.”

App Inventor should be available to Gmail users in a few weeks, and you can sign up to register your interest here.

Of course, this will bolster the amount of apps on Android considerably as time marches on – although as to the usefulness of these home-baked concoctions, well, that’s another issue entirely.

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The whole CEOP and Facebook panic button debate has been going on for some time now.

The so-called panic button being a prominent icon that allows a young person to click and report any inappropriate material they come across on the site to CEOP (the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre).

Back in April, the social networking site made changes to its child safety policies after a meeting with the Jim Gamble, Chief Executive at CEOP.

These measures included a Facebook 24 hour police hotline, and a pledge to invest £5 million in an education campaign to raise awareness of online safety issues to both parents and kids.

Facebook stopped short of adding the panic button CEOP ideally wanted. However, now it appears the site has had a rethink, and is now going to provide a ClickCEOP button via an application.

It’s not quite what CEOP originally wanted, as it isn’t an omnipresent button – teenagers on the site will have to install the application before the panic button appears on their home page.

However, Facebook users aged between thirteen and eighteen will be targeted by advertising to make them aware of the existence of the application, and to encourage them to add it for their own safety.

Jim Gamble of CEOP commented: “Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the ClickCEOP button is well documented – today however is a good day for child protection.”

“By adding this application, Facebook users will have direct access to all the services that sit behind our ClickCEOP button which should provide reassurance to every parent with teenagers on the site.”

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