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    No Tweets please, we're British MPs

    AFP, Published on 20/01/2011

    » Lawmakers in Britain's lower house of parliament were on Wednesday banned from using the Twitter microblogging website while sitting in the chamber.

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    EU disarray makes it easy for carbon credits hackers

    AFP, Published on 21/01/2011

    » Europe boasts that its control of polluting rights makes it a leading light in moves to save the planet, but patchwork national systems for trading carbon credits have simply left hackers licking their lips.

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    Social network fans look to calm the update storm

    AFP, Published on 17/03/2011

    » Social networking fanatics deluged by updates and posts are turning to services that promise more intimate communities increasingly tied to real world activities.

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    Activision Blizzard ends 'Guitar Hero' gig

    AFP, Published on 10/02/2011

    » Activision Blizzard said it is bringing the curtain down on a "Guitar Hero" music videogame franchise that lets players pretend to be rock stars.

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    ICANN grants .xxx but delays opening domain gates

    AFP, Published on 19/03/2011

    » The group in charge of Internet addresses on Friday opened the door for websites ending with ".xxx" but delayed deciding whether to open the floodgates for other suffixes.

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    Symantec boosts authentication

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010

    » After 27 years of providing security for end points, Symantec has launched a new logo and acquired a number of companies that together will provide the trust, strong identity and encryption it needs to protect a world where servers are virtualised and are somewhere in the cloud outside of the company's data centre and where CIOs need to be responsible for data that flows readily to their employee's personal smart phones.

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    Microsoft as an unfamiliar underdog

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 17/11/2010

    » With tablets becoming all the rage, I, like many, wondered what happened to Microsoft.

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    The Game Layer

    Mylife, Adrian Hodges, Published on 27/12/2010

    » Throughout human history games and game play have been a huge part of social development. In the last 30 years since the advent of personal computing we have seen the exponential spread of gaming consoles, platforms, and handheld devices. With the spread of Internet access alongside faster connections and speedier hardware the spread of gaming has reached all corners of our day-to-day lives. Powerful smart phones, or 'super phones' and other devices are now offering users permanent 'always-on' connections. Processor speeds and graphic chip expansion is allowing access to immersive gaming and play worlds as never before. We can now play games on the bus or train, in the car and on the move. Social networks such as Facebook offer access to a range of gaming 'apps'. The gaming company Zynga is leading the way - producing games for Facebook and MySpace. Founded only three years ago Zynga now has 1300 employees worldwide and a shadow share market valuation of approximately $5 billion. Tapping into the human desire for play and games is proving to be an emerging next step in the spread of the Web and global connectivity. Alongside this new wave is evolving research into the use of games and gaming in the realm of learning.

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    Flaws in the scramble for safer driving

    Database, James Hein, Published on 01/12/2010

    » Imagine the uproar if the government announced that all cars would need to have scrambling technology installed so that drivers - and, by extension, passengers - could not use a mobile phone while the car was in motion.

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    A journalist's work never ends

    Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 29/12/2010

    » Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva got one very special Christmas present, one he was probably not counting on, thanks to the netizens of Facebook.

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