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Facebook gets sneak peek at NHS site visits

...allows Facebook and Google to track visits without informing the user, MP Tom Watson said in a letter to health minister Andrew Lansley. The tracking... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ISPs brand Mandelson 'internet villain' of the year

...year, according to UK ISPs, who voted for Digital Economy Act opponent Tom Watson MP as 'internet hero' of the year. Mandelson, the progenitor of... Read more

9 July, 2010 by David Meyer

ARM brews Big.Little tech for less greedy smartphones

...increasing demand for what we'd call low-level types of tasks," Tom Cronk, deputy manager of ARM's processor division, said at press launch... Read more

20 October, 2011 by Jack Clark
IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

IBM at 100: A prosperous failure

...though it is still roughly the size of Microsoft and Intel combined. Tom Watson Sr, who gave IBM its name in 1924 and turned it... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Schofield

Everything Everywhere posts first results

...has been a year of achievement for Everything Everywhere," said chief executive Tom Alexander in a statement on Wednesday. "We continued the rapid integration of... Read more

23 February, 2011 by David Meyer
Activists, artists review state of digital rights

Activists, artists review state of digital rights

Tom Watson MP (second from left; the most visible opponent to the Digital... Read more

28 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Copyright crackdown dominates ISPA 'villain' awards

...Tuesday, ahead of the ISPA Awards ceremony on 8 July. Bridget Fox, Tom Watson and the 38 Degrees campaign group, all opponents of the bill... Read more

9 June, 2010 by David Meyer

Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release

The KDE and Xfce variants of the recently updated Linux Mint desktop operating system could well arrive within a matter of weeks, according to project leader Clement Lefebvre Read more

25 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Privacy watchdog to chase big companies over cookie law

The Information Commissioner's Office plans to quiz 50 large British businesses over whether they are complying with new rules to tell people about cookies on their sites, but does not envisage levying fines at first Read more

18 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

UK Anonymous keeps up DDoS barrage on ICO

A branch of the UK Anonymous group called the ATeam has said it is using 'sophisticated' DDoS methods against the website of Information Commissioner's Office Read more

16 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Adobe makes users pay to fix Photoshop flaw

Adobe makes users pay to fix Photoshop flaw

Photoshop for Creative Suite 5 has a serious security flaw that Adobe is not going to patch, forcing security-conscious users to potentially pay hundreds of pounds to upgrade to Photoshop CS6 Read more

11 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

The Serious Organised Crime Agency instructed its hosting provider to take its website offline after a distributed denial of service attack started to affect other clients Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

The cost of most Microsoft UK volume licences will rise by up to 33.5 percent from 1 July, Microsoft has said, although the implications for public-sector costs have yet to be decided Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Google digs in heels over EU antitrust ultimatum

Google has asked for a precise list of the laws the European Commission thinks it has broken in response to a deadline given by regulators, chairman Eric Schmidt has said while maintaining the company has done nothing wrong Read more

23 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Google gets ultimatum over EC antitrust probe

The European Commission has given Google the chance to avoid formal proceedings by coming up with remedies to antitrust concerns over page-ranking and advertising Read more

21 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

2 hours ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

3 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

6 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

14 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

17 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

18 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

19 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

19 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

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

21 hours 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...

22 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

23 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

24 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
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....

1 day 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...

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

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

1 day 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

1 day ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

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

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
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...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths