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Deaf users campaign for US-style video relay service

...written an open letter published in today's Times newspaper. They are campaigning for a universally-accessible video relay service of the sort that the... Read more

11 May, 2012

Schmidt: UN treaty a 'disaster' for the internet

...has crossed swords with regulators in the EU and elsewhere, has been campaigning against more internet regulation for years. Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Ben Woods

Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds

...shape or form but Stallman aims to change this status quo by campaigning for people to make small gestures – such as refusing to open Word... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

MEPs back cheaper European data-roaming rates

...roaming and arguing the Commission's wholesale caps were still too high.Campaigning group Europeans for Fair Roaming also welcomed the MEPs' move, even though... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Unite and Fujitsu end long-running dispute

...means Fujitsu will not punish employees for participating in industrial action or campaigning; will grant small pay increases to Manchester staff, backdated to 1 August... Read more

20 January, 2012

SOPA: Cheat Sheet

...profile web companies and organisations, including the likes of Google and Wikipedia, campaigning to stop them making it into law. Internet users and dot-coms... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

Book review: Republic, Lost

"Love makes the odds irrelevant," writes Lawrence Lessig at the end of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress —... Read more

9 January, 2012

Net neutrality gets European Parliament backing

...The French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net has long been campaigning for net neutrality. It views the motion's acceptance of anti-congestion... Read more

18 November, 2011

Net neutrality heads for European Parliament vote

...the issue of net neutrality should ensure a common European approach". The campaigning group La Quadrature du Net welcomed the committee vote. Its spokesman Jérémie... Read more

21 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Anonymous posts face legal shake-up

...to the post.Index on Censorship is one of the key organisations campaigning for reform of the UK's libel laws. While it welcomed the... Read more

20 October, 2011 by David Meyer

RIM explains BlackBerry downtime as outage spreads

The messaging and browsing downtime, which RIM attributes to a core switch failure, is now reportedly being experienced in North America as well as South America, India and the EMEA region Read more

12 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Pirates storm Berlin parliament

...also calling for free public transport and votes for over-14s, while campaigning against secretive privatisation deals. Under-30s apparently accounted for most of the... Read more

19 September, 2011

FixMyTransport sets complaints in motion

...micro-activism". "Whilst the site intentionally doesn't contain any language about campaigning or democracy, we encourage and provide tools to facilitate the gathering of... Read more

31 August, 2011
The overlooked risk to the internet

The overlooked risk to the internet

...the risk to networks, as groups turn to online attacks for political, campaigning or criminal ends. The typical methods used in these attacks rely either... Read more

8 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Julian Assange's extradition appeal kicks off

Julian Assange's extradition appeal kicks off

...journalists outside the courtroom. Speaking to ZDNet UK before the appeal hearing, campaigning journalist and Assange supporter John Pilger said: "I hope justice is done... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

49 minutes ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

2 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

6 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

6 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

22 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
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I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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