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Ten reasons Linux is the best choice for kids

...any differences. You could probably sit a child down with a Gentoo box running CDE or AfterStep and he or... Read more

17 October, 2010 by Jack Wallen

European ISPs fight network child-porn blocking

...Internet service providers are lobbying the European Parliament over child pornography website-blocking requirements that are due to be introduced to European... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Child protection chief quits ahead of crime agency merge

...The head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Jim Gamble, has tendered his resignation to... Read more

5 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Scottish parliament allows child offender DNA retention

...has approved legislation to enable police to retain the DNA of certain child offenders. Under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill, which was approved... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Kable

Scottish care body rapped by ICO

...that the organisation that investigates the care of Scotland's most vulnerable children twice failed to protect sensitive child welfare information. In January 2011 the... Read more

6 September, 2011 by Staff

CSA IT failures cost £40m per year

...Failures in a computer system used by the Child Support Agency are costing the agency about £40m per year in additional... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Microsoft set to pull support of CEOP, says chief

...Microsoft is considering withdrawing its support for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, according to the taskforce's outgoing chief... Read more

12 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Ofsted calls out school data sharing failings

...not making the best use of a national IT system to identify children missing from school. A survey by Oftsted found that the School to... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Kable

Scrapping of ContactPoint database begins

...the deletion of the entire database of details of 11 million UK children. ContactPoint, an information-sharing project that was established in the wake of... Read more

6 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Facebook adds safety alarm for kids

...Social-networking site Facebook and UK child-protection authority CEOP have launched a panic-button app, after months of... Read more

12 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government defers ContactPoint database cancellation

...Department for Education has said it will temporarily maintain ContactPoint, the controversial children's database, but scale back its use. Tom Jeffery, director general of... Read more

21 June, 2010 by Kable

Police set to launch three £30m e-crime hubs

...in November, will focus on online crime, with the exception of online child abuse, which is already covered by units that specialise in the area... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Sade Laja

ISPs prompt parents over blocking internet porn

...parental controls on their broadband connections, in a move aimed at protecting children online. TalkTalk, BT, Sky and Virgin Media are to remind people they... Read more

11 October, 2011 by David Meyer

TalkTalk launches network-level security protection

...mobile phones, tablets and games consoles. "This is especially important now that children are regularly using devices like phones, and not just the main family... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Government data bungle comes under fire

...HM Revenue and Customs, the Child Support Agency and the Department for Work and Pensions have been criticised... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Kable

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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....

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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...

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Burn-IT

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

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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

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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?

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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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archerthom

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

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