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A hacked called Chriss10011, a member of TheAdipiscing group, hacked an official site of the Big Dance, an event programmed for 2010 and 2012, considered to be the “London dance experience.” The hackers didn’t say exactly which site they breached, but since only the 2010 event was sponsored by T-Mo... |
13 February 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Just like the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick spied on the FBI agents that were investigating him back in the days when he used to illegally access the networks of phone companies, Anonymous hacktivist obtained a recording of a conference call between FBI agents and UK law enforcement officers.
A Pastebin document reve... |
3 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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A couple of tourists made some jokes on Twitter before vacationing in the US. Unfortunately for them, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) picked up on their tweets, considered them a threat to national security, and gave them a not-so-friendly welcome when they arrived.
According to The Sun, Leigh Van Bryan an... |
31 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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As the London Olympics are approaching, security is considered one of the most important aspects by the organizers. To make sure that the volunteers, known as Games Makers, are not tricked into handing over sensitive information, the London Organizing Committee (LOCOG) issued guidelines regarding their interaction wi... |
17 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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A number of 232 hard drives containing confidential information on Brighton General Hospital patients were stolen from a locked storage facility, where they were being decommissioned, and put up for sale on eBay.
The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust appointed the Sussex Health Informatics Service t... |
11 January 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Wanting to make sure that the upcoming London Olympics is an incident-free event, the Metropolitan Police performed a security test to see if they can manage to smuggle a bomb to the main site and apparently they succeeded.
It seems as the organizers have a lot of things to set straight before the big event after a ... |
10 January 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is now available in the UK and Ireland, as promised last year. Users in the two countries will be able to start streaming TV shows and movies from the site or on a large number of devices.
The company announced a few months ago that it would expand to its first European markets in early... |
9 January 2012
05:13 GMT |
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One in three divorces in the UK are linked to Facebook. That may seem like a very alarming number, but it has to be put into context, the divorces are not caused by Facebook activity necessarily, but whatever happens on the social network contributes to the decision.
The report comes from a UK divorce site, so it�... |
5 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Emails that allegedly come from the UK tax organization HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are promising recipients a tax refund if they open an attachment and provide sensitive information. In reality, it’s nothing but a clever phishing scam. Baring the subject “Tax refund notification,” the email, pro... |
30 December 2011
02:30 GMT |
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The Metropolitan Police’s e-crime Unit (PCeU) identified a large number of websites that were set up to scam individuals who are planning to attend next year’s London Olympics.
According to The Guardian, a total of 2,000 websites were already taken offline, but a few hundred still remain under careful su... |
27 December 2011
07:03 GMT |
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Researchers from Barracuda Labs discovered that the official website of Amnesty International UK, the human rights non-governmental organization, was compromised and set up to serve drive-by downloads to its visitors.
The experts say that the attack on the human rights group may be an attempt to spy on activists.
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23 December 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Netflix and the BBC have announced that they've reached a deal to make a number of BBC titles available in the UK and Ireland when the Netflix streaming service launches early next year. A number of older series will be available at launch with more titles coming in later.
Netflix already has a deal with BBC Wo... |
20 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Google may be dominating the search space globally, but 'dominate' can mean quite a different thing from country to country. In the US, Google has about 65 percent of the market. In the UK, its share is at over 90 percent.
While it has been stuck at that level for a lot of time, having gained just 0.68 per... |
15 December 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Sony presented quite a lot of PlayStation 3 bundles in the U.S. ahead of Black Friday and the winter holiday season, but one of the best packages is now available in the UK, where the company is throwing in a PlayStation 3, as well as quite a lot of high quality games, including Uncharted 3, Gran Turismo 5, Battlefie... |
13 December 2011
03:15 GMT |
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An independent study launched by 20 forestry and wildlife organizations from the UK reveals that Britain's woodlands feel the impact of a wide series of threats at an "unprecedented scale." According to the researchers involved in this project, the issues and opportunities UK forests face at this point in time... |
28 November 2011
05:14 GMT |
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A new study reveals that Norfolk and Suffolk Broads are more biodiverse habitats that biologists previously thought. It seems that these areas, occupying approximately 0.4% of UK's entire surface, are the natural home of 66 species that can be found only in this region. Also, researchers are now excited to say... |
26 November 2011
07:13 GMT |
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The net neutrality debate is not one that will die down soon. In the UK though, local regulator Ofcom has said that ISPs can pretty much do as they please, slow down or exclude any service at will.
However, they will have to provide accurate and detailed data on the service they do provide, actual speeds, filters an... |
25 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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Amazon has exported the Kindle Daily Deals across the pond to the UK. The company has said that UK buyers will not be able to get one book each at a discount price.Bargain hunters or those looking for something new to read without investing too much into it will definitely appreciate the new feature.Kindle Daily Deal... |
14 November 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Netflix is coming to the UK early next year, the company has previously confirmed the rumors. Now it's announcing that there will even be things to watch via the service as it boasts about a licensing deal with Lionsgate UK giving it access to a large library of movies, both new and old."[Netflix and Lionsgate] ... |
14 November 2011
08:27 GMT |
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Last week, Nokia held the Nokia World 2011 conference in London, and now the company has announced the availability of free WiFi service for those who live in this city.
Only in a trial phase at the moment, the service will provide users with wireless networking in central London, and should increase Nokia's ... |
1 November 2011
11:03 GMT |
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UK police is putting crime on the map. Quite literally, the British Home Office has launched an updated version of the very popular Police.uk which provides even more data than before and at a greater detail.Officials also say they plan to expand on the idea even more, making the site a hub for any information and da... |
28 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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Amazon has been given the go-ahead to take over The Book Depository. The online retailer made its intentions clear last July when it said it plans to acquire the book seller. Now, UK regulators, the Office of Fair Trading, have announced that they do not oppose the acquisition. The main reason behind their... |
26 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Netflix has announced that it is launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012. This comes after plenty of rumors and speculation about a European assault by Netflix. The company hasn't confirmed other launches, but they are coming soon as well.The company has now announced that its first two European markets wi... |
24 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Flash drives don't often get most recognized for their security capabilities, but this is precisely what happened to the Eclypt Nano, which ViaSat UK just released.Portable storage devices are very handy things, but they aren't precisely very widespread among government agencies and some corporations.That ... |
17 October 2011
10:48 GMT |
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Google is a technology company at heart, but, as it is evident with YouTube, it can make a decent media company as well. Still, when people think of online movies, they think of Netflix, they think of Amazon, they think of LoveFilm in Europe, but rarely of Google and YouTube.
But Google is moving to change that, i... |
7 October 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Several single-letter domain names were up for grabs in the UK, auctioned off by Nominet, which oversees the country's internet infrastructure. But most of the domains available didn't fetch large sums, the average selling price was £39,000, or $60,700 (€45,300).
What's more, Google was o... |
3 October 2011
09:53 GMT |
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White Space spectrum, a portion of the radio frequencies spectrum that has become unused now that TV broadcasters have switched to digital transmissions in many countries, holds a lot of promise for wireless networks.Any free spectrum could be a boost for mobile communication channels, which are rather crowded in mos... |
1 September 2011
11:40 GMT |
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Google TV is not getting much love these days, but it's still pretty much alive. Google is working on the so-called Google TV 2.0 and the platform is getting a reboot soon. In fact, Google is so confident in its TV platform that it plans on offering it in more places, expanding into Europe.
Speaking at the Ed... |
29 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Sony's PlayStation 3 has been doing really well in Europe and its native Japan, dominating its opponents in recent months, but, at least according to the company's new European boss, Jim Ryan, things are bit more complicated in the UK.
Sony has beaten rivals in traditional markets like Europe or Asia by ... |
29 August 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it is transitioning its search engine to Bing in several more countries, this time in key European markets. Yahoo has been switching over to Bing in more and more countries, after it started with the US and Canada a year ago.
"We are now ready to transition Yahoo! organic search results (t... |
2 August 2011
06:21 GMT |
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Netflix is clearly expanding beyond its home market. It has said that much itself, when it revealed that it might launch in 43 new countries, in Latin America, concomitantly. But Netflix isn't stopping here, there are new rumors indicating that it's hitting European shores in early 2012, in Spain and the UK... |
16 July 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Google is dominating search worldwide, with only a few exceptions. But even as it has an over 90 percent market share in some places, it's still growing. Case in point is the UK, where Google managed to get 92 percent of the searches in June.
Google has been doing great in the UK for quite a while now, but it... |
13 July 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has agreed to write for the new UK branch of famous online newspaper Huffington Post.Launched today July 6th 2011, Huffington Post UK is the newest branch in the Huffington Post network, which span over the US and Canada until now.Besides Tony Blair, Huffington Post UK ... |
6 July 2011
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The fight against online piracy, at the expense of personal freedoms, continues unabashed. The Motion Picture Association, a trade-group representing major Hollywood studios, is trying to make 'history' by asking the British High Court to force BT, the largest ISP in the UK, to block a website it says is a ... |
27 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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A bunch of very attractive domain names are becoming available in the UK as Nominet, the country's internet registry, has opened up applications for bids. As expected, the one-letter and two-letter domain names have attracted quite a lot of interest and are expected to fetch a fair bit of money.Among the compani... |
9 June 2011
10:58 GMT |
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A lawsuit involving Twitter is causing a lot of fuss in the UK and elsewhere, since Twitter revealed account details and private data of a Twitter account holder to the authorities. The main concerns is that this puts a dampen on free speech online, however, Twitter acted in full compliance of the law and, like in th... |
30 May 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Despite all of the fuss in the UK over the so-called "super injunctions," court orders that block the press from reporting on the more intimate indiscretions of public persons, and Twitter, the company is still planning to move to London, as it has been for quite some time now, and, in fact, has started moving employ... |
23 May 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Authorities in the United Kingdom hope to lead through the power of example. The nation has just become the first ever to adopt its own greenhouse gas emission cuts, at a time when other countries are still bickering over insignificant aspects of adopting such a measure themselves.The cut that has now become legally-... |
17 May 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Vevo, the music video site venture, is finally crossing the Atlantic and being launched in the UK, more than a year after hitting the US. Brits will now get access to the entire catalogue via the Vevo website not only through YouTube. The site also boasts that it will strive to offer content and an experience catered... |
26 April 2011
10:45 GMT |
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After slashing the price of the PlayStation Portable, more specifically the PSP-3000 version, in North America, Sony has now announced that the price of the portable console will also be cut in Europe by 24 percent.
Sony has been trying to make its PSP more attractive these days, especially since the Next Generati... |
11 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A specialty doctor has recently weighed in on the possible side effects caused by the use of the new Nintendo 3DS handheld console, which have been causing plenty of debates in the last few weeks.
Ever since the launch of the Nintendo 3DS handheld, the console has been linked with numerous reports about it causing... |
7 April 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Owners of Nintendo Wii consoles aren't using the devices all that much, at least according to a new survey released in the UK.
According to Myvouchercodes, the website that commissioned the survey, it seems that Wii owners have forgotten about their console and aren't using it like they did when it first... |
11 March 2011
03:15 GMT |
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The chief scientist of the UK government, Sir John Beddington, said recently that the third world and developing countries cannot afford blocking the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on ethical and moral grounds, given the state the world is in. While avoiding to acknowledge the validity of the argument... |
24 January 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Google has revealed that all of the Street View data illegally, though inadvertently, the company says, collected from unprotected WiFi networks in the UK has now been deleted, as per instructions from the UK Information Commissioner's Office. The data took longer than anticipated to delete, but all UK data is n... |
20 December 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Twitter is currently looking to expand its team globally and is looking to set up an office in Europe with London as one of the main candidates. The site wants to establish a sales team for the region to start selling its advertising products in Europe. Twitter representatives met with the British Prime Minister and ... |
13 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in the UK earlier this morning after he surrendered to the Metropolitan police. An international arrest warrant was issued in his name via the Interpol. He was charged with one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape in Sweden.Th... |
7 December 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Google has been given the go-ahead to delete the personal WiFi data it collected with its Street View cars in the UK. The company was investigated twice by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and found guilty of breaching the privacy of UK citizens by storing emails, passwords and other sensitive data... |
19 November 2010
10:46 GMT |
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UK's Information Commissioner has found Google guilty of breaching the British Data Protection Act with its Street View cars which collected personal data from open WiFi networks. The government, however, will not issue any penalties, but it will request a written guarantee from Google that this won't happe... |
3 November 2010
10:49 GMT |
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A new report commissioned by Google and conducted by Boston Consulting tries to describe how important the web is to the UK economy. The report, titled Connected Kingdom, showed that the internet drives as much as £100 billion for the economy while being the sector with the fastest growth."The United Kingdom ha... |
26 October 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Authorities in the UK are now contemplating imposing hefty fines for the company, even though the investigation into the matter was completed in the country a few months back. Authorities in charge of privacy issues are sure fast to make inflammatory public statements or actions, though it's a bit strange that t... |
25 October 2010
05:10 GMT |
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