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Webroot: social networkers open to ID theft - PC Advisor
25/6/2009 | external link
A third of social networkers have at least three pieces of information visible on their profiles that could make them vulnerable to ID theft, says Webroot . Research by the ...
Pop-up as a chef at home - Evening Standard
25/6/2009 | external link
Out of the frying pan: Alison serves the main dish to a living room of guests at their monthly underground supper club Secret and operating at the edges of legality, pop-up ...
Neda Soltani Is Alive - Anorak
25/6/2009 | external link
The living Neda Soltani was disturbed to suddenly see her image being used everywhere, online, on television and in the press? Because of the confusion, the ?real? Neda ...
'Wailing of wolves' in Iran as cries of Allahu akbar ring from roofs - Times Online
25/6/2009 | external link
At about 9pm each day Nushin, a young housewife, performs the same curious ritual. She climbs up the stairs to the roof of her Tehran home and begins shouting into the night ...
Woolworths returns as online business - Daily Telegraph
25/6/2009 | external link
Toys, children's clothing, computer games and CDs, alongside sweets such as white mice, mallow twists and fizzy cola bottles, will all be sold at Woolworths.co.uk which opens for ...
Full squad train as England eye hosts - FA.com
25/6/2009 | external link
After learning that they'll face hosts Sweden in the semi-final,  the Three Lions trained in the sunshine Varberg on Wednesday morning. All 23 of Stuart Pearce's squad trained on ...
UK retailer Woolworths reborn online - The Guardian
25/6/2009 | external link
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Woolworths, the 100-year-old sweets-to-DVD retailer that collapsed earlier this year, will on Thursday be revived as an online business by Britain's ...
Roger Federer is a man in real hurry - Belfast Telegraph
25/6/2009 | external link
Perhaps Roger Federer wanted to check that all was well with his heavily pregnant wife, Mirka, who was feeling under the weather and had decided not to go on court for his second ...
Heads of top U.S. companies snub blogs, Facebook - study - Reuters UK
25/6/2009 | external link
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The heads of the top U.S. companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they're switched off when it comes to social media, according to a new study that ...
Woolworths makes online comeback - The Guardian
25/6/2009 | external link
Britain's Woolworths brand has made a comeback as an online shop complete with pic 'n' mix sweets and Ladybird children's clothing. The woolworths.co.uk site launches with the ...
Iran cuts access to Facebook as election looms - Guardian Unlimited
24/5/2009 | external link
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The blocking of the popular social networking site Facebook in Iran has prompted critics of the president to condemn it on Sunday as an apparent attempt to ...
Khatami throws weight behind Iran ex-premier - Al Arab Online
24/5/2009 | external link
Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami on Saturday openly threw his weight behind ex-premier Mir Hossein Mousavi, who is contesting the June 12 presidential election ...
David Cameron sacks Andrew Mackay as voters demand clear-out - Guardian Unlimited
24/5/2009 | external link
Andrew Mackay, the first top Tory to quit over expenses. Photograph: Carl Court/PA David Cameron lost his first big scalp to the expenses scandal today when Andrew Mackay, his ...
57 days after Jade Goody's funeral and 'reformed' bad boy Jack Tweed ... - News of World
24/5/2009 | external link
TRAGIC Jade Goody's hubby Jack Tweed is to be let out of prison this week after serving time for drunken assault - and will celebrate with a boozy nightclub bash. The 21-year-old ...
Hardeep Singh Kohli: It's Hard-eep Cheese as my Twitter chums melt ... - Scotland on Sunday Online
24/5/2009 | external link
Online social networking is now part of the fabric of our society. Even those of us who haven't formed umbilical cyber-cords to our PCs and PDAs know that the idea of new, vibrant ...
Boy, 13, Quizzed Over Footballer's Murder - Sky.com
24/5/2009 | external link
Scotland Yard confirmed the teenager was being quizzed over the death of Jahmal Mason-Blair. The 17-year-old died after being stabbed in the neck. Police found him shortly before ...
JAILBIRD JACK READY TO PARTY - Daily Star
24/5/2009 | external link
JACK Tweed is planning a ?night of party mayhem? to celebrate his release from jail this week. Less than two months after the death of his wife Jade Goody, fun-loving Tweed has ...
Bebo lines up brands for third edition of Sofia's Diary - New Media Age
15/4/2009 | external link
Bebo is approaching brands and agencies to drum up advertising for the third series of its hit cross-platform drama Sofia's Diary , which goes into production this month. The AOL ...
Free Twitter applications and tools - Webuser.co.uk
15/4/2009 | external link
This compact Desktop widget lets you view the latest tweets, or switch to show replies or direct messages. You can archive tweets, and view friends and followers. Twhirl also ...
When bricks meet clicks - Revolution
15/4/2009 | external link
LONDON - Smart retailers are finding innovative ways to blur the line between the in-store and online experience to ensure that consumers get the best of both worlds, writes ...
Tributes paid to crash cyclist - Islington Gazette
15/4/2009 | external link
A CYCLIST killed when she was trapped by a cement mixer has been named. Rebecca Goossen, 29, a trainee architect, was on her way to her job at Metropolitan Workshop in Cowcross ...
Tributes pour in for DJ who died in road crash - Cornish Guardian
15/4/2009 | external link
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Saltash DJ who died in a road accident on Saturday. Lloyd Williams died when his vehicle crashed in the early hours of Saturday morning on the A38 ...
Report finds Tap Tap Revenge most popular iPhone app amongst users - MacWorld UK
9/4/2009 | external link
With Apple providing only infrequent updates to the status of the App Store, and with those largely confined to telling us simply how many applications are available for sale, it ...
Cashing in on convergence - Revolution
9/4/2009 | external link
For the majority of brands, multi-platform campaigns are now commonplace. So why, asks Victoria Furness, do some soar and others fall flat? Convergence is one of those industry ...
Hacker intrusion on US power grid sparks security fears - The Independent
9/4/2009 | external link
Spies hacked into the US electric grid and left behind computer programmes that would let them disrupt service, exposing potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities in key pieces of ...
Britain's Got Talent offers intelligent targeting ad spots - New Media Age
9/4/2009 | external link
FremantleMedia Enterprises has launched intelligent targeting on the Britain's Got Talent website, enabling advertisers to target audiences via themed content packages. The ...
AOP interview: Tony Hallet, CBS Interactive - NetImperative
9/4/2009 | external link
Q. What do you think are the biggest threats to B2B publishers during 2009? And conversely, what are the biggest opportunities? 2009 will be challenging year for all publishers ...
Festival Hall?s sculpture is by child sex murderer Colin Pitchfork - Times Online
9/4/2009 | external link
Many a concertgoer has stopped to admire the exquisite paper sculpture of an orchestra on display in the Royal Festival Hall and attributed to an anonymous prisoner. The creator of ...
Suharto's ex-henchman Prabowo Subianto to fight Indonesia election - Times Online
9/4/2009 | external link
Prabowo Subianto is a man of many skills, none of them very appealling. As a general in the Indonesian Special Forces he ran a lethally efficient terror regime in East Timor ...
Obama's DVD gift to Brown - it's the thought that counts - Guardian Unlimited
5/4/2009 | external link
Well, what would you buy Gordon Brown ? He's not a man known for pleasure - rather as the sort to take an afternoon's summer holiday before heading straight back to work, so it ...
Applications let mobile phones do so much more - Daily Telegraph
5/4/2009 | external link
When Apple released its iPhone in 2007, few envisaged what its impact on mobile phones would be. Over the past three years, 30 million users have discovered that the device and its ...
Egypt arrests 30 people ahead of nationwide strike - Al Arab Online
5/4/2009 | external link
Egyptian authorities have arrested 30 people and deployed extra police around the country as part of a security plan to prevent a nationwide strike planned for April 6. "Police ...
Doubletake Studios' customers not smiling - This is Money
5/4/2009 | external link
Photography studio signs up Facebook generation for makeover shoots - but some are far from happy
Ex-Pa. senator convicted of 137 corruption counts - AP - Guardian Unlimited
24/3/2009 | external link
Associated Press Writer= PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vincent Fumo, once one of the most powerful figures in Pennsylvania politics, was convicted Monday of more than 130 counts of ...
Editor's View - New Media Age
24/3/2009 | external link
There's a long tradition of Hollywood remaking French films, but Eyes Without A Face wasn't one them. This creepy 1960 film features a mad scientist who removes the faces of women ...
Jade Goody: Flood of online tributes prompt Facebook 'message wall ... - Daily Telegraph
24/3/2009 | external link
Several groups were created on the site following the news that the reality television star had died following her public battle with cancer. The 27-year-old passed away with her ...
Skittles devotes US site to social media apps - New Media Age
9/3/2009 | external link
Skittles has given its US brand site over to social media and incorporated its Facebook, Flickr and YouTube pages in place of its traditional site. The .com site of the Mars sweet ...
Morph tribute to TV presenter Hart - MSN UK News
9/3/2009 | external link
Nearly 200 of the small orange models drew an even larger crowd of human onlookers at the Tate Modern gallery on London's South Bank. Each one was formed in the shape of children's ...
Yobs invade 'Facebook' party - The Sun
9/3/2009 | external link
HORDES of drunken youngsters rampaged through the streets after a failed bid to gatecrash a private party they discovered on the internet. More than a dozen police officers and an ...
Rogue app ruins Facebook's weekend - ZDNet UK
9/3/2009 | external link
Social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with new security issues on Friday that could compromise personal information and communications from friends. Facebook said it ...
Facebook users 'at risk' as hackers target site - Technology.timesonline
9/3/2009 | external link
Facebook users are at risk from malicious hackers targeting the site, online security experts warned. Account holders have been hit by several different hacking attempts in the ...
Making Sense of Polling on Job Insecurity - Al Arab Online
9/3/2009 | external link
According to a recently released AP-GfK poll, 32% of Americans are crazy. Oh, sorry. The poll actually revealed that 47% of those asked worry "a lot" or "some" about the ...
Blogging etiquette gets personal - Guardian Unlimited
8/3/2009 | external link
A discussion that began on a journalist's personal blog has sparked a wider debate on ethics in the age of social media as the lines between journalists' professional work and ...
Tony Hart fans take Morphs on the march in his honour - Times Online
8/3/2009 | external link
Fans of the late children's television presenter Tony Hart paid tribute to him in London yesterday by creating hundreds of models of his sidekick Morph. A ?Plasticine army? of ...
Sky News appoints Twitter correspondent... - Guardian Unlimited
8/3/2009 | external link
I'm in two minds about the creation of a Twitter correspondent by Sky News . This is, to be clear, not someone who reports solely on Twitter (though recent mainstream press ...
Banks Gives Up Journal Dreams - femalefirst.co.uk
8/3/2009 | external link
Supermodel-turned-talk show host Tyra Banks has abandoned her desire to keep a diary of her innermost thoughts - because she's afraid her words will come back to haunt her in the ...
Youngsters urged to go to free open house music session - Luton News
8/3/2009 | external link
Young musicians in the Urban Orchestra will be holding a free open house event at Dunstable's Grove Theatre soon. The orchestra will be rehearsing in public from 10am to 2pm, on ...
Two charged with murder after fire - Ananova
25/2/2009 | external link
Police have charged two men with murdering a teenage girl and her grandmother in an alleged arson attack. Shannen Vickers, 17, and Pauline Adams, 57, were overcome by smoke as they ...
Experts sound scam threat warning - BBC News
25/2/2009 | external link
Fake software, fake scan but the cost is real enough. Experts are warning of an increase in the number of fake anti-virus websites. Hackers are tricking people with a false warning ...
A little less action, a little more conversation - Media Week Online
25/2/2009 | external link
Ten years ago, the Cluetrain Manifesto crashed into existence, subtitled "The end of business as usual". Its ideas attracted a vast amount of attention and as many passionate ...
Twitter's rapid growth raises regulation issues - New Media Age
25/2/2009 | external link
The hugely popular micro-blogging site Twitter is a child safety and privacy disaster waiting to happen, according to online safety experts. The site - which has had a yearly 974 ...
Mrs Trellis: will you please drop me a line - Daily Telegraph Blogs
25/2/2009 | external link
This seems the best way to reach one of our regular blog comment writers, Mrs Trellis. I would pick up the phone, or write a letter; call directory enquiries or search the internet ...
'Challenge' star offered 'Nuts' shoot - Digital Spy
25/2/2009 | external link
The winning captain on this year's series of University Challenge has been asked if she would pose for a "tasteful" shoot for Nuts , it has emerged. Oxford student Gail Trimble, 26 ...
'Sunday best' tradition will be lost within a generation, researchers ... - Daily Telegraph
25/2/2009 | external link
Having Elevenses, taking afternoon tea and playing parlour games are also set to be consigned to the history books. These quintessential British pastimes are being replaced by ...
Gail Trimble in action during the University Challenge final - BBC UK News
25/2/2009 | external link
The team, captained by 26-year-old Gail Trimble, beat Manchester University by 275 points to 190 in the BBC television quiz chaired by Jeremy Paxman. Much of the college's success ...
Determined Obama vows to renew US - BBC News
25/2/2009 | external link
Across this new electronic landscape, the headlines about Barack Obama's congressional address were being written before the final draft of the speech went off to the printers at ...
Cops: Man tries to steal laptop to check Facebook - AP - Guardian Unlimited
25/2/2009 | external link
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff's officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account ...
MPs use web to talk, but don't listen, says Hansard. Are you surprised ... - PublicTechnology.net
25/2/2009 | external link
A new Hansard Society report, MPs Online: Connecting with Constituents , shows that MPs are using the internet primarily to inform their constituents rather than engage with them ...