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• The Virtual Shield: Defending Virtual Borders
  on Aug 9, 2009 in Technology
  The risk to government networks and major financial institutions from cyber warfare is increasing every day but what is being done to defend national borders? Estonia is an online savvy state and champion of so called ‘e-government,’ a pa...
• Archbishop Vincent Nichols criticises Facebook and MySpace
  on Aug 3, 2009 in General archbishop criticise facebook criticise myspace vincent nichols
  Social networking websites, texting and e-mails are undermining community life, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned. Archbishop Vincent Nichols said MySpace and Facebook led young people to seek “transient...
• Mozilla Firefox nears 1 Billion Downloads
  on Jul 31, 2009 in Technology 1 billion downloads mozilla firefox onebillionplusyou.com
  The open-source browser Firefox is expected to pass the billion download mark in the next twenty four hours. The milestone includes downloads of all versions of the web software since its first release in 2004. Figures suggest that Firefox now has ne...
• Spinvox voice-to-text service patents human operators method
  on Jul 29, 2009 in Technology human operator james whatley spinbox voicemail to text
  The voicemail-to-text service Spinvox has applied for two patents which describe the service as being operated by humans, the BBC has learned. Spinvox has previously claimed that state-of-the-art speech recognition technology is the basis of its serv...
• Orange launch ‘Monkey’ service for top-ups to combat piracy
  on Jul 29, 2009 in Technology monkey service orange orange team up top up combat piracy
  Orange is teaming up with Universal and Channel 4 to offer a music streaming service which it hopes will help combat piracy. Dubbed Monkey, the service is aimed at the young mobile customers who are less likely to have expensive handsets or mobile in...
• Orange launch ‘Monkey’ service for top-ups to combat piracy
  on Jul 29, 2009 in General Technology monkey service orange orange team up top up combat piracy
  Orange is teaming up with Universal and Channel 4 to offer a music streaming service which it hopes will help combat piracy. Dubbed Monkey, the service is aimed at the young mobile customers who are less likely to have expensive handsets or mobile in...
• Microsoft and Yahoo seal the Search Engine deal
  on Jul 29, 2009 in General carol bartz google rival jerry yang microsoft rob enderle search engine deal steve ballmer yahoo
  Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google. Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales...
• UK Broadband ISPs are still ‘not up to speed’
  on Jul 28, 2009 in Technology charlie ponsonby internet service provider internet service providers' association ispa not up to speed ofcom simplifydigital slow download slow upload uk broadband uk isp
  Broadband users are not getting the speeds they are paying for, according to the largest survey of its kind ever undertaken by telecoms regulator Ofcom. Nearly one fifth of UK broadband customers on an eight Megabit per second (Mbps) connection actua...
• ATI FirePro V8750 released with CrossFire Pro
  on Jul 28, 2009 in Hardware
  AMD have announced the latest in its high-end professional 3D video cards, the ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation accelerator, promising four times the processing power over rival systems. The FirePro V8750 boasts 2GB of memory with range-topping 115.
• China bans online games that promote gangs
  on Jul 28, 2009 in Gaming General china bans online games godfather green dam filtering software promtoe gangs xinhua news agency
  Chinese officials take the Godfather game to the mattresses. The Chinese government has announced that it has banned online games that glamorize gangs. According to the government, any websites featuring or publicizing online games, which glamorize m...

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