Neowin News Feed for: British

Wileyfox offers a 43 percent discount if you accept its lockscreen ads

Dreyer Smit — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 08:44:01 +0000

If you like the idea of getting a substantial discount on a new smartphone, and prominent ads on your new device don't particularly bother you, Wileyfox might just have a deal for you. Read more...

British nationals' web activity snooped on by government, even outside of UK

Jett Goldsmith — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:12:30 +0000

In a recently-released series of documents, the British government apparently asserted their right to snoop on the web traffic of British nationals - even if the website is hosted outside of the UK. Read more...

Starbucks tweet asks Irish customers why they're proud to be British

Andy Weir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:21:00 +0000

Starbucks is the latest big brand to end up red-faced thanks to social media, after a tweet to its customers in Ireland asked why they're proud to be British - a contentious enquiry, to say the least. Read more...

Turing won't receive posthumous pardon

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:27:27 +0000

Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, won't be receiving a posthumous pardon for his 1952 conviction of "gross indecency." Read more...

British Parliament launches a computer game

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000

Young people will soon be able to get a taste of what it is like to be a "MP for a Week", as the Parliament Education Service releases their own computer game. Commons speaker, John... Read more...

Google and BT in talks over ISP video delivery network

Matthew Hopson — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:01:48 +0000

Web search giant Google and British Telecom are believed to be in talks about creating an ISP based video delivery network that would deliver improvements to the quality of online video by storing popular videos... Read more...

British hacker loses High Court extradition appeal

Tom Warren — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:57:42 +0000

Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon... Read more...

Accused British Hacker Gary McKinnon Loses Appeal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:09:30 +0000

A British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers lost a major court battle today and could be extradited to the United States within weeks. Gary McKinnon is alleged to have illegally accessed computers... Read more...

UK could follow French copyright plan: Get legal or get off!

Fred Derf — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:08:14 +0000

Britain could follow France in cutting Internet access to users who repeatedly download music or films illegally. In France, warning messages are sent to those who frequently download music or films illegally. If the messages... Read more...

British drivers could face jail for using mobile

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:16:46 +0000

In the most serious cases, British motorists caught talking on a hand-held mobile phone or sending a text while driving could be charged with dangerous driving, which carries a two-year maximum sentence and an unlimited... Read more...

British Government Apologizes for Data Mishap

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:14:16 +0000

Prime Minister Gordon Brown tried to reassure Britons their personal details were safe Wednesday after the one of the biggest security breaches in the country's history left millions of people exposed to identity theft and... Read more...

British Online Spending Tops £100 billion

Joe Cashman — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:57:07 +0000

Total online spending by British shoppers has hit Â£100 billion, research shows. This figure dates back to April 1995 when e-retail first launched, according to the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG). Britons spent Â£3.465... Read more...

British Music Industry Threatens ISPs Over Piracy

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:23:04 +0000

The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks. The International... Read more...

Google, British Military Discuss Google Earth Use in Attacks

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:08:07 +0000

Google is talking with military agencies after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra, Iraq, appear to have been using aerial footage from Google Earth. It appears that among documents seized in raids on... Read more...

UK ISP to British recording industry: get lost

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:45:07 +0000

One of the ISPs that the British recording industry tried to strong-arm into terminating customers' accounts on accusation of file-sharing has refused. In a letter to the British Phonogram Industry, Tiscali's legal department lectures the... Read more...

British Telecom Purchases Dabs.com

Joe Cashman — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:43:27 +0000

BT, Britain's biggest fixed telecom player has purchased online retailer Dabs.com. While the fee has not been disclosed sources state the deal was worth Â£30million. The move is part of BT's strategy to strengthen... Read more...

British ISPs Must Identify File Sharers

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:29:11 +0000

British record companies applauded Friday's ruling in court that gave them the right to obtain the identities of people who use file sharing programs from Internet service providers. The labels were looking for the identities... Read more...

British Broadband Picks Up The Pace

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:17:33 +0000

BT Broadband is to double its speed for free from later this week. The ISP is to introduce a new, 2Mbps package from this Thursday, February 17, for home customers. Existing 1Mbps customers will also... Read more...

MS wish British Athletes best of luck in the Olympics

Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:01:42 +0000

Birmingham, England, home town to many Neowinians, is also a site of support for the British Olypmic hopes. For the next few days, Microsoft will be offering passers by to write messages of congratulations, commiseration... Read more...

Forget Euro 2004 - British boffins go global!

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:45:49 +0000

With Euro 2004 dreams over, a UK team is hoping to salvage some pride from the Imagine Cup - a global student programming challenge, held by Microsoft. The Brits have made the final in Sao... Read more...

Apple G5 ads banned from British televisions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:35:22 +0000

THE INDEPENDENT TELEVISION Commission decided that the advertising was misleading "because the main claim was based on the results of limited tests" in which, it said the specification of the computers used was configured to... Read more...

SQL Slammer Used British code

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 19:46:17 +0000

Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend. David Litchfield, co-founder of NGS Software, originally wrote the code to demonstrate... Read more...

The British Army in virtual combat

Marcel Klum — Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:18:36 +0000

The British Army is using a specially developed version of the celebrated computer game Half-Life to train its troops. With the first-person shoot-em-up soldiers can try out new weapons and new tactics... Read more...

British launched biggest military combat

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:54:38 +0000

I've recieved a PM from Nick_Jones about this story and I've decided to post it on a main page since this is the first biggest combat deployment of England after the 1991 Gulf War. I... Read more...

British Telecommunications claims to own the Hyperlink Patent

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:33:29 +0000

Watch out, beacause they are claiming they should be paid for every Hyperlink used by millions of websites. /sigh "A British company claimed in federal court Monday that it owns the patent on... Read more...

Century-Old British Census goes online

Wed, 02 Jan 2002 14:23:54 +0000

Modern technology has given Britons a glimpse of life at the turn of the last century with the online publication of the national census for 1901. Doomed Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott,... Read more...

New British payphones to offer Internet access

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:16:20 +0000

British telecom giants Marconi and BT unveiled plans on Wednesday to install a network of 28,000 Internet-ready payphones across Britain. The companies said they were to introduce the new phones, which would... Read more...

British net users spend way to much time online!

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:37:31 +0000

British Internet users log on for an average 446 minutes per month and look at 282 pages (Ed. and what kind of pages would those be....) (during that time, according to a survey Monday from... Read more...