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  • 404 - Page Not Found
  • Date: Monday, July 19, 2010
  • This might be because you typed the web address incorrectly. Please check the address and spelling ensuring that it does not contain capital letters or spaces. It is possible that the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted. Ple
  • Topic: Consumer
  • Scammers exploit Apple iPad fever
  • Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
  • Cyber conmen are cashing in on hype surrounding Apple's iPad. Security firms have come across attempts to subvert search engines to catch out those seeking more information about the tablet. Those who follow rogue links are re-directed to pages that scan
  • Topic: Technology
  • Google phases out support for IE6
  • Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
  • Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine. The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work "properly" with t
  • Topic: Internet
  • Manchester United warns about social networking
  • Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
  • Manchester United Football Club has posted a message on its website explaining that its players do not belong to online social networks. It advises users to treat any profiles in the names of its players with "extreme scepticism". The club says
  • Topic: Social networking sites
  • Indian Premier League to be shown live on YouTube
  • Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
  • Internet search giant Google has announced it will stream all Indian Premier League cricket matches live via its YouTube video-sharing website. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will have exclusive online rights over the contents for two years. Bo
  • Topic: Search Engines
  • Microsoft patches hole in Internet Explorer
  • Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010
  • Microsoft has patched a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that may have allowed Chinese hackers access to human rights activists' e-mail accounts. It usually issues patches every month but said the attention the problem had received made it move more
  • Topic: Technology
  • Google set to offer property dimension to UK mapping
  • Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
  • Google is set to launch a property dimension to its UK mapping system. The new service will allow both estate agents and private sellers to put their property as an overlay on Google Maps. The plans were outlined at a conference called Estate Agency Even
  • Topic: Search Engines
  • iPhone orchestra ready for debut
  • Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
  • A group of US students has created an entire orchestra out of separate iPhone applications. As part of their studies, the group from the University of Michigan built the applications themselves and composed music for them. While some of the applications
  • Topic: Technology
  • iPhone worm creator lands software job
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley. Mr Towns has no
  • Topic: Technology
  • India blocks millions of mobiles for security reasons
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons. The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a 15-digit code which appears on the operator's network whenever a call is made.
  • Topic: Technology
  • Microsoft investigates Windows 7 'screen of death'
  • Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  • Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the "black screen of death", which affects its latest operating system. The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen after logging on to the system. T
  • Topic: Technology
  • New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts
  • Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
  • A second worm to hit the iPhone has been unearthed by security company F-Secure. It is specifically targetting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING Direct. It redirects the bank's customers
  • Topic: Technology
  • Face scanners launched at airport
  • Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
  • Face scanning technology brought in at Gatwick Airport will speed up passport checks, the government has said. Home secretary Alan Johnson officially launched the face scanners at the airport in West Sussex on Monday. He said the self-service technology
  • Topic: Technology
  • YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers
  • Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
  • YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels. These inc
  • Topic: Search Engines
  • Girls 'becoming Facebook addicts'
  • Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • Parents fear their daughters are becoming addicted to social networking sites, a girls' school leader says. Girls seem to be "permanently connected" to sites like Facebook and Bebo, president of the Girls' Schools Association Jill Berry said. T
  • Topic: Social networking sites
  • Switzerland takes Google to court
  • Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • Web search giant Google faces a court case in Switzerland because of privacy concerns over its Street View service. The application allows a 360-degree view of any street-level location. "Numerous faces and vehicle number plates are not made suffici
  • Topic: Search Engines
  • Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'
  • Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks. Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that
  • Topic: Technology
  • Windows 7 borrowed 'look' of Mac
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • A Microsoft executive was quoted in an interview as saying "what we've tried to do with Windows 7. . . is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics". The comments, by partner group manager Simon Aldous, appeared in UK computing trade magaz
  • Topic: Technology
  • Xbox console ban is 'permanent'
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • Thousands of Xbox 360 owners who have been cut off from Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have to buy a new console if they want to play online again. Microsoft told BBC News that banned machines will be permanently barred and "unable to connect to
  • Topic: Technology
  • Bing teams up with Wolfram Alpha
  • Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
  • Microsoft has teamed up with a web tool once hailed as a rival to Google to provide results for its search engine Bing. Wolfram Alpha aims to answer questions directly, rather than display a list of links like a search engine. The "computational kno
  • Topic: Technology
  • Video on the internet
  • Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
  • Find out about the revolution of video on the World Wide Web and how websites share and view videos
  • Topic: Multimedia
  • The £100 laptop
  • Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007
  • Low-cost laptops hit rural China and the developing world
  • Topic: Consumer