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Pervert viewed child porn at public library
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-24 09:43:55
Thank goodness that not all paedophiles are clever, cunning and stealthy. Some are just plain and simple morons, which makes catching them all that much easier. Take the case of Mark Bowness, caught viewing child porn images at his local public library, for example...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-24 09:43:55
Thank goodness that not all paedophiles are clever, cunning and stealthy. Some are just plain and simple morons, which makes catching them all that much easier. Take the case of Mark Bowness, caught viewing child porn images at his local public library, for example...
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Bonkers Boris and Gormless Gordon go all Internet on your ass
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-24 07:52:22
Boris Johnson is either the Mayor of London or the bumbling oaf from TV quiz shows depending upon who you are talking to. Gordon Brown is the washed up UK Prime Minister according to just about everyone. Neither have taken much of a public nor political interest in the Internet, until now...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-24 07:52:22
Boris Johnson is either the Mayor of London or the bumbling oaf from TV quiz shows depending upon who you are talking to. Gordon Brown is the washed up UK Prime Minister according to just about everyone. Neither have taken much of a public nor political interest in the Internet, until now...
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iPhone 3G dominates mobile data in Australia
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-09-23 01:40:25
iPhone owners use far more data than do users of other mobile devices, according to a new study.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-09-23 01:40:25
iPhone owners use far more data than do users of other mobile devices, according to a new study.
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Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-22 10:11:19
BT is off the hook over those secret spying trials it conducted without bothering to inform, or should that be inphorm, customers about them until it was caught red handed. It looks like a very bad day for privacy, and a very good one for the monitoring of online user activity without consent.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-22 10:11:19
BT is off the hook over those secret spying trials it conducted without bothering to inform, or should that be inphorm, customers about them until it was caught red handed. It looks like a very bad day for privacy, and a very good one for the monitoring of online user activity without consent.
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Stephen Hawking and the giant time-eating grasshopper
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-09-21 10:30:55
One is an inventor who made his fortune from developing the kettle thermostat, one is a world famous physicist who made his name explaining time, and one has been dead for 232 years. Together, this unlikely trio have brought us perhaps the oddest clock on the planet.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-09-21 10:30:55
One is an inventor who made his fortune from developing the kettle thermostat, one is a world famous physicist who made his name explaining time, and one has been dead for 232 years. Together, this unlikely trio have brought us perhaps the oddest clock on the planet.
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Tesco cocks up with Dell 12 incher
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-09-12 10:10:28
Tesco, the British supermarket giant, is currently advertising a new Dell netbook online. Nothing unusual there, you may think, but this is not the much publicised Inspiron Mini 9. This is a 12 incher that Dell has yet to announce to the world. Now that's what I call a cock up...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-09-12 10:10:28
Tesco, the British supermarket giant, is currently advertising a new Dell netbook online. Nothing unusual there, you may think, but this is not the much publicised Inspiron Mini 9. This is a 12 incher that Dell has yet to announce to the world. Now that's what I call a cock up...
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Banned: The Vodafone advert just too fast for radio
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-11 04:24:29
Let me repeat that, a little slower. A radio advert for a Vodafone mobile phone contract deal has been banned in the UK because the actress speaks too quickly.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-11 04:24:29
Let me repeat that, a little slower. A radio advert for a Vodafone mobile phone contract deal has been banned in the UK because the actress speaks too quickly.
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Bad Phorm: Detectives question BT over secret trials
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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Auntie developing ad-backed bbcTunes music download service
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-05 04:00:21
The BBC is planning a music download service so fans can pay for tracks that have been broadcast on TV and Radio for free. Has Auntie gone stark raving mad?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-05 04:00:21
The BBC is planning a music download service so fans can pay for tracks that have been broadcast on TV and Radio for free. Has Auntie gone stark raving mad?
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Majority of British business planning to go virtual
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2008-09-03 08:53:34
A new survey reveals that 38 percent of British business has already adopted virtualised infrastructures, and of those who have not some 52 percent are planning to do so.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2008-09-03 08:53:34
A new survey reveals that 38 percent of British business has already adopted virtualised infrastructures, and of those who have not some 52 percent are planning to do so.
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Brits suffer from discomgoogolation
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-03 08:07:05
New research suggests that the British are becoming increasingly addicted to the Internet. So much so that discomgoogolation has been identified as a major new cause of stress by one psychologist...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-03 08:07:05
New research suggests that the British are becoming increasingly addicted to the Internet. So much so that discomgoogolation has been identified as a major new cause of stress by one psychologist...
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Owned: National Hi-Tech Crime Unit website
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-09-03 07:07:18
When the BBC recently reported on the extradition battle of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon, it linked to the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit website. Indeed, many news and security sites around the world do the same. Yet visit NHTCU.org today and you can book a German holiday. What the heck is going on?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-09-03 07:07:18
When the BBC recently reported on the extradition battle of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon, it linked to the UK National Hi-Tech Crime Unit website. Indeed, many news and security sites around the world do the same. Yet visit NHTCU.org today and you can book a German holiday. What the heck is going on?
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Some email names attract more spam: researcher
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-02 22:09:47
A researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory asked the question "Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?" The answer may surprise you.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-02 22:09:47
A researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory asked the question "Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?" The answer may surprise you.
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How much would you pay to sit on a PlayStation 2?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-02 14:36:06
In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-09-02 14:36:06
In what it claims as a world first, a UK company has announced a chair made from 100 percent recycled plastic from a single source. Oh yes, that source happens to be the Sony PlayStation 2 games console...
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UK Pay and Go iPhone 3G arrives September 16th
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-09-01 16:17:54
It has been less than two months since the big Apple iPhone 3G launch, but the long wait for Pay As You Go users will soon be over according to O2. The UK mobile carrier has announced it will start selling the PAYG iPhone 3G on September 16th. But how much will it cost?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-09-01 16:17:54
It has been less than two months since the big Apple iPhone 3G launch, but the long wait for Pay As You Go users will soon be over according to O2. The UK mobile carrier has announced it will start selling the PAYG iPhone 3G on September 16th. But how much will it cost?
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Math preschoolers calculate better at 10 years
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-01 09:06:07
A British study has concluded that children who learn math in preschool are better in mathematics at the age of ten years than those who didn’t learn math in their early education.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-01 09:06:07
A British study has concluded that children who learn math in preschool are better in mathematics at the age of ten years than those who didn’t learn math in their early education.
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UK bank pulls down pants password
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-09-01 00:56:22
One of Britain's major banks changed a customer's telephone banking password when he used it as a way of expressing displeasure with the company. The incident has led to the dismissal of a staff member.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-09-01 00:56:22
One of Britain's major banks changed a customer's telephone banking password when he used it as a way of expressing displeasure with the company. The incident has led to the dismissal of a staff member.
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UK Population 60 million, UK Mobile Phone Connections 70 million
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-29 10:52:59
Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has today published a new consultation document which reveals there are 10 million more mobile phone connections than there are people in the United Kingdom...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-29 10:52:59
Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has today published a new consultation document which reveals there are 10 million more mobile phone connections than there are people in the United Kingdom...
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iPhone 3G: all your Internet parts are not belong to us
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-26 21:31:26
Oops - the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Apple iPhone 3G ad claiming that “all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone” after two complainants pointed out the iPhone lacks Flash and Java. Good decision or bureaucracy gone mad?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-26 21:31:26
Oops - the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Apple iPhone 3G ad claiming that “all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone” after two complainants pointed out the iPhone lacks Flash and Java. Good decision or bureaucracy gone mad?
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One million bank accounts going, going, gone for £35 on eBay
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-26 05:55:02
When Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England successfully bid £35 for an old computer on eBay he wasn't expecting to have the details of a million bank accounts thrown in for free...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-26 05:55:02
When Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England successfully bid £35 for an old computer on eBay he wasn't expecting to have the details of a million bank accounts thrown in for free...
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