Young surfers are being encouraged to practise safe computing and use common sense online on Safer Internet Day today.Safer Internet Day is a worldwide user education initiative designed to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people .The official theme of 2010's event is Think B4 U post! , as explained on EU organi
The Tories continued their 21st Century bread and circuses election campaign yesterday, pledging once again to jack-up broadband speeds in the UK.This time, Jeremy Hunt, the party's culture spokesman, told the FT that a Tory government would force BT to open its cable ducts to rivals to speed the rollout of new networks - a day after BT said it planned to do just that. Hunt said that should the
Mozilla will ditch support for Appleâs aged Mac OSX 10.4 - AKA Tiger - when it releases the next version of its Gecko rendering engine.The open source browser maker plans to push out Gecko 1.9.3 later this year, and at the same time support for Tiger will be dropped altogether, even though the Mozilla Foundation estimates that nearly 1.5m Mac OSX 10.4 users are surfing the web with Firefox 3.5.
Google has opened up a US support number that will be answered by a human being, as well as tweaking the small print to make its mobile phone more attractive.Not that Mountain View will be providing technical support as such, only enquiries into the ordering and shipping process will be dealt with by Google - everything else gets directed to HTC or T-Mobile as appropriate.But if you've got an out
China's aggressive crackdown on internet smut and dissent continues - yesterday a man was sentenced to 13 years prison for renting a US server for distributing pornographic material Huang Yizhong, from Jiangmen, was fined 100,000 yuan (£9,400) and sentenced to 13 years for copying and distributing pornographic material. He used a rented US server to download 1,000 films which he edited into clip
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Google Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own.Goojje's home page is adorned with a Google-styled logo and the familiar paw print logo of China's top home-grown search engine, Baidu Inc.The website, whose name is a play on words with the final syllable jje sounding like the Chi
Like the look of the recently released Motorola Milestone but not sure if you want to take the plunge? Well, how about a nice shiny promo video to help you make that all important decision? Well, it’s Motorola to the rescue as the manufacturer has released just that; a short but sweet clip showing off [...]
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