items tagged with United Kingdom
Criminal blunder as UK government loses 84,000 prisoners
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-22 05:51:11
The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-22 05:51:11
The UK Home Office has admitted that a memory stick with the data concerning every single prisoner in the country, all 84,000 of them, has managed to escape. Of course, this being the UK government, the data was not encrypted...
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MillionDollarCu.be: can lightning strike twice?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-22 02:25:30
Perhaps you remember UK student Alex Tew and his million-dollar home page? It triggered a number of copycats back in 2005 and 2006, but none that we've seen have come within coo-ee of matching the original's success. But someone thinks it's time to take another shot.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-22 02:25:30
Perhaps you remember UK student Alex Tew and his million-dollar home page? It triggered a number of copycats back in 2005 and 2006, but none that we've seen have come within coo-ee of matching the original's success. But someone thinks it's time to take another shot.
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Bebo bags Brett
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Appointments
2008-08-21 23:30:31
Social network Bebo has appointed Kelly Brett as head of original productions.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Appointments
2008-08-21 23:30:31
Social network Bebo has appointed Kelly Brett as head of original productions.
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Three nations, one language - but what about their search interests?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-21 21:52:14
Everyone knows that people use search engines to hunt down porn ahead of everything else, right? Wrong, according to Google Insights. But there are some interesting similarities and differences among the search interests of American, Australian and British Googlers.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-21 21:52:14
Everyone knows that people use search engines to hunt down porn ahead of everything else, right? Wrong, according to Google Insights. But there are some interesting similarities and differences among the search interests of American, Australian and British Googlers.
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Vodafone screws users over call costs, senior executive stabbed to death
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-19 10:35:41
Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-19 10:35:41
Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...
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Symantec swallows promising Australian security middleweight
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-08-18 23:52:53
Yet another software company has been acquired by Symantec. This time it's security developer PC Tools, yet another promising mid-sized Australian technology company that has fallen to the deep pockets of a multinational acquirer.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-08-18 23:52:53
Yet another software company has been acquired by Symantec. This time it's security developer PC Tools, yet another promising mid-sized Australian technology company that has fallen to the deep pockets of a multinational acquirer.
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British researchers find direct evidence of solid inner core of Earth
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-08-17 11:50:18
Seismometers in Japan recorded ground-motion waves from a 2006 earthquake in southeastern Africa. A British geophysics team analyzed the resulting data and found “faint yet direct” evidence that the Earth’s inner core structure is solid--something scientists believe but find difficult to directly prove.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-08-17 11:50:18
Seismometers in Japan recorded ground-motion waves from a 2006 earthquake in southeastern Africa. A British geophysics team analyzed the resulting data and found “faint yet direct” evidence that the Earth’s inner core structure is solid--something scientists believe but find difficult to directly prove.
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Metropolitan Police launch pointless Google powered London crime map mashup
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-08-16 16:38:00
Ever wondered just how bad crime is in your neighbourhood? Londoners can now find out thanks to an interactive crime map which has just been launched by the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2008-08-16 16:38:00
Ever wondered just how bad crime is in your neighbourhood? Londoners can now find out thanks to an interactive crime map which has just been launched by the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London...
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The 102 year old Facebook frisbee queen
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-15 05:10:17
Ivy Bean is a gold medal winning frisbee thrower at the age of 102. She also happens to hold another title: the oldest Facebooker in town...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-15 05:10:17
Ivy Bean is a gold medal winning frisbee thrower at the age of 102. She also happens to hold another title: the oldest Facebooker in town...
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No more text Twittering in the UK
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-14 06:32:35
Twitter is all about instant mobile communication between its social network of Twitterers, but not if you are British it would seem...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-14 06:32:35
Twitter is all about instant mobile communication between its social network of Twitterers, but not if you are British it would seem...
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Chip and Pin protection cracked like a rotten foreign egg
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-14 05:10:42
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-14 05:10:42
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...
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Is Gary McKinnon an alien obsessed nerd or a NASA hacking mastermind?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-13 11:03:33
British citizen Gary McKinnon is either a master hacker who perpetrated the biggest US military computer hack of all time or a bumbling nerd obsessed with aliens. Whatever, the Americans want to throw him in jail and throw away the key. The European Court of Human Rights says they cannot have him, at least until the end of the month...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-13 11:03:33
British citizen Gary McKinnon is either a master hacker who perpetrated the biggest US military computer hack of all time or a bumbling nerd obsessed with aliens. Whatever, the Americans want to throw him in jail and throw away the key. The European Court of Human Rights says they cannot have him, at least until the end of the month...
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iPhone bashing BlackBerry making Bold debut in Europe
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-08 08:10:08
There is plenty of talk about Apple wanting a slice of BlackBerry pie with the iPhone 3G and MobileMe. But what is Research in Motion doing to fight back? Being Bold in Europe, is the cryptic but correct answer...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-08 08:10:08
There is plenty of talk about Apple wanting a slice of BlackBerry pie with the iPhone 3G and MobileMe. But what is Research in Motion doing to fight back? Being Bold in Europe, is the cryptic but correct answer...
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730,000 Brits chat on mobile phones during sex
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Peripherals
2008-08-06 10:48:23
In what is probably one of the odder surveys to land in our inbox this month, gadget use in the UK is revealed in some disturbing detail by iGizmo magazine...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Peripherals
2008-08-06 10:48:23
In what is probably one of the odder surveys to land in our inbox this month, gadget use in the UK is revealed in some disturbing detail by iGizmo magazine...
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Foolproof 'Secure' Passports: cloned in less than an hour
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-06 10:00:38
You know those expensive, high tech, secure e-passports that governments the world over tell us will prevent identity theft, stop terrorists in their tracks and all because they are fake proof? Turns out they can be successfully cloned in a matter of minutes...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-06 10:00:38
You know those expensive, high tech, secure e-passports that governments the world over tell us will prevent identity theft, stop terrorists in their tracks and all because they are fake proof? Turns out they can be successfully cloned in a matter of minutes...
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Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking technology
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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Ancient Greeks help build better computer networks
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-08-04 09:11:58
The University of Leicester in England is launching a major programme to help develop a new paradigm for future global computing environments. In order to improve code and data mobility over wide area networks the boffins will, err, study Ancient Mediterranean crafts-people from the late bronze age through to classical times...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-08-04 09:11:58
The University of Leicester in England is launching a major programme to help develop a new paradigm for future global computing environments. In order to improve code and data mobility over wide area networks the boffins will, err, study Ancient Mediterranean crafts-people from the late bronze age through to classical times...
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Apple dreaming of an iPhone nano for Christmas?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-03 08:35:43
The UK’s Daily Mail is reporting that Apple will shortly launch the iPhone nano, and has quoted an expert with a curious idea that’s either brilliant... or stupid.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-08-03 08:35:43
The UK’s Daily Mail is reporting that Apple will shortly launch the iPhone nano, and has quoted an expert with a curious idea that’s either brilliant... or stupid.
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Brits from Birmingham rule the gaming world
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2008-08-02 08:25:56
The Olympics are about to start in Beijing and, to be fair, the British are not expecting to need too big a box to bring their gold medals home in. Shame, then, that computer gaming is not an Olympic event...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2008-08-02 08:25:56
The Olympics are about to start in Beijing and, to be fair, the British are not expecting to need too big a box to bring their gold medals home in. Shame, then, that computer gaming is not an Olympic event...
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IBM Lotus: we're beating Microsoft
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-07-31 18:05:47
IBM's Lotus business claims to be winning millions of seats away from Microsoft's Exchange, including some key wins in emerging markets. Lotus outgrew Microsoft in 2Q08, company officials claimed.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-07-31 18:05:47
IBM's Lotus business claims to be winning millions of seats away from Microsoft's Exchange, including some key wins in emerging markets. Lotus outgrew Microsoft in 2Q08, company officials claimed.
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