An USB memory stick containing personal information of tens of thousands of prisoners from the UK has been lost, as the British Home Office confirmed. Although some of the objectives of the institution are related to safeguarding "people's identity and the privileges of citizenship," important information, such ... |
22 August 2008
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It is rumored that Playlouder, a website that offers, via BitTorrent, free music downloads to British users, will partner with Virgin media to give a wider range of playlists to its subscribers. Although people don't pay anything to listen to their favorite songs, the artists and distribution companies are retri... |
18 August 2008
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The challenging economic environment is also reflected in the Internet use behavior in the U.K. People seem, now more than ever, inclined to navigate to webpages that offer discounts and saving tips. A snack-food business recorded an astonishing growth rate of 2,575% from last year, since its management decided to of... |
1 August 2008
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Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, gett... |
7 July 2008
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Dell started a trend among the desktop and laptop manufacturers and vendors that, for the first time ever, threatened Windows' position on the OEM market. Dell did the unthinkable and launched several types of computers not with Microsoft Windows installed, but with a Linux distribution named Ubuntu, that is ver... |
1 August 2007
05:59 GMT |
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There are many things flying wildly on the Web about the green computing nowadays. As a general rule, because no standardization exists yet, they do more in the way of confusing users and hardware vendors, than in the way of helping reduce pollution. This is one of the main causes that led to the forming of a compute... |
23 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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