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UK News: Pipex for sale

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:06:25 +0000

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The UK's independent ISP market just keeps on shrinking, with Pipex hawking itself around looking for a buyer. Weekend reports said Chairman Peter Dubens has appointed bankers UBS to find a buyer for the firm,... Read more...

UK News: NTL Announces New Range of Broadband Services

Tom Warren — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:36:37 +0000

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ntl, the UK's leading provider of broadband internet services, today unveiled plans to unleash the potential of its fibre optic cable network by launching three super-speed broadband internet services. Available in early 2005, the new... Read more...

UK News: Sainsbury's suspends online discounts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:37:43 +0000

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Sainsbury's has had to cancel a series of discounts offered to online shoppers after voucher codes posted on a web forum were used by literally hundreds of people. The company had offered online shoppers Â£10... Read more...

UK News: BT ponders music downloads for payphones

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 08:40:25 +0100

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UK telco BT could soon be selling digital music through its 70,000 payphones if talks with a major online music provider prove fruitful. According to a BBC report, the telco wants to allow owners of... Read more...

Kaspersky Labs News: PDAs under attack

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:27:53 +0100

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Kaspersky Labs has detected Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor for PDAs running under PocketPC (based on Windows CE). Brador is a classic Trojan backdoor program: it opens the infected machine for remote administration. Brador... Read more...

News: DS Release And Line Up!

malebolgia — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:20:34 +0100

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Nintendo has announced the preliminary lineup and release date for its' DS console! As memories of this year's E3 begin to fade, we bring you some good news from Nintendo on the... Read more...

UK News: 2.8GHz Prescott finally available

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:31:53 +0100

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RETAILERS IN THE UK, Austria and Bosnia have received stocks of Prescott 2.8 CPUs we learn, and we ghuess the chip is heading for other European territories too. But it seems that this is the... Read more...

UK News: Tiny.COM Prices But Huge Value

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:58:01 +0000

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Tiny Computers re-establishes itself as the leading consumer PC brand in the UK. Tiny Computers, the UK's best value PC manufacturer, and sister-company of Time Group Ltd. and a member of the successful Granville/Time Group,... Read more...

UK News: Private Credit Data to be used by Govn

cheekymonkey — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:36:06 +0000

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So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is... Read more...

UK News: David Brent to Train Microsoft

cheekymonkey — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:01:59 +0000

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"I'm a monopolist first, geek second... probably an entertainer third..." Wernham Hogg's managerial genius that is David Brent has been employed by Microsoft to train its staff in personal development. Although the... Read more...

UK News: Bank of England email scam

cheekymonkey — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:30:53 +0000

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Yup, it's another scam email sent in a spoofy manner by a load of merchant bankers... The Bank of England says it has intercepted over 100,000 fraudulent e-mails masquerading as computer... Read more...

Offbeat News: Spam, SPAM and Saddam

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:01:26 +0000

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It's been a tough week for Hormel. The president signs an e-mail nuisance bill called the CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, ed: now thats a... Read more...

UK News: Metered broadband back on the menu?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:48:30 +0000

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MPs have been alerted to the danger of 'young people swapping files' online, and told that P2P users should be made to pay for their bandwidth demands. The sticky issue of metered broadband services has... Read more...

UK News: Bargain of the year?

cheekymonkey — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:36:46 +0000

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I know this has been posted in the forums but as the Cube appears to be experiencing quite a renaissance (as Nintendo resumes production) I thought I'd post news of a massive bargain from Nintendo.... Read more...

UK News: Freeserve makes first (monthly) profit

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:00:32 +0100

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Freeserve has made its first profit, the ISP revealed today. Exact details were not revealed but it seems that during August, Freeserve made more cash than it spent. The use of black ink comes a... Read more...

UK News: Dixons to Preinstall AOL

cheekymonkey — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:27:45 +0100

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Electrical retailer Dixons is expected to sever its long-standing relationship with Freeserve and instead install AOL's Internet access software on its PCs. Dixons helped create Freeserve during the dot-com boom, and the ISP... Read more...

UK NEWS: Government to ban drivers using handhelds

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:37:03 +0100

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British motorists are to be banned from using handheld mobile phones when driving. From December 1 they will be fined Â£30, rising to up to Â£1,000, if the case comes to court. When the government... Read more...

UK News: How fast is 'high-speed' broadband?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 May 2003 11:00:54 +0100

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The debate over how to define high-speed internet services continues to cause confusion across the industry. NTL, currently advertising a 150Kbps service as 'high speed', is challenging the ruling of the Adverstising Standards Authority (ASA)... Read more...

UK News: Microsoft collects little for Telewest call

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 28 May 2003 20:50:35 +0100

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Microsoft has sold its interest in Telewest Communications for a fraction of what the software giant poured into the U.K. phone and Internet service provider. IDT Corporation bought Microsoft's stake for $5 million, a Microsoft... Read more...

UK News: citizens will be forced to have ID cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 May 2003 09:31:57 +0100

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NEWSPAPERS HERE [UK] are reporting that our Minister of the Interior [Home secretary -Ed] will introduce compulsory identity cards this autumn and citizens will have to pay for the privilege. The Guardian says that David... Read more...