Russia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a law to give the government the power to shut down internet sites without trial. If offending websites cannot be shut down, the law allows authorities to force internet service ...
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Microsoft has revealed its Windows 8 operating system (OS) will launch on 26 October. The date was announced at Microsoft's annual sales meeting and was published on its blog shortly after, according to the BBC. The launch date also ...
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Amazon has reported second quarter income of just $7m, down 96% compared with the same period the year before. The company blamed the fall on an estimated $65m loss from its acquisition and integration of robot-maker Kiva systems in a ...
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UK- With viewing figures approaching three million, BBC1's Saturday Kitchen is one of the most successful Saturday morning television shows of the past decade. Recently its production company, Cactus TV, started working with Prolink ...
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Magnetically sensitive sharks don't like samarium, neodymium, and praseodymium, according to a report by BBC on a company that is experimenting with rare earth elements to protect swimmers from getting bit. Eric Stroud, who runs Shark ...
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The government is to publish details of its controversial plans to make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The Queen's Speech in May revealed that the government would go ahead ...
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International oil company Saudi Aramco claims to be over a cyber attack on 15 August and maintains that oil production was not disrupted. The company said around 30,000 workstation computers that were hit by a virus attack are back ...
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A BBC report claims O2 is rushing to launch its own 4G service, following Everything Everywhere's announcement of an imminent roll-out. EE, the new brand for Everything Everywhere, has announced it will roll out superfast mobile ...
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And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
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YouView, the broadband digital TV box service that launched two years later than planned in July this year, has lost a High Court appeal to keep using its name. Following a legal dispute that began in 2010 between the company and billing ...
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More than half of the peak-time traffic to the London 2012 Olympic Games' web servers came from mobile devices – a huge demonstration of the consumer switch to mobile at the highest–profile sporting event of the year. Users ...
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Microsoft has announced it intends to "retire" its instant message chat tool Windows Live Messenger in favour of Skype's messaging tool. The announcement comes just 18 months after Microsoft announced plans to acquire internet telephony ...
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Award winning journalist Fredrik Skavlan hosts the most seen talk show in Scandinavia with over 3m viewers and so it came as no surprise when BBC Entertainment decided they wanted to film some of the new series in London. Since the TV ...
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International and mobile users have surprising impact online. ORLANDO, FL, August 01, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Amidst the hype surrounding the first fully digital Olympics this past weekend, millions of viewers around the world tuned in ...
Tags: digital Olympics, computers and mobile devices, multi-camera streams
The Ghost Shell group, an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking collective has published the log-in details from 1.6 million accounts. The credentials were stolen from a series of hack attacks on Nasa, the FBI, the European Space Agency and ...