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In the melee of the last days of the Labour government, ...
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All this was set out in the Digital Britain reports that ...
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Example 2 – A Truckie has an empty backload from Sydne ...

DarkPatterns.org was set up by Harry Brignull. Dark Patt... interfaces that are intended to trick people. The purpos... to spread awareness, and to name and shame sites that us...

Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

Amazon is forcing British publishers to cover the cost o... on ebook sales – even though the true VAT cost to the ... only a fraction of that amount under its generous Luxemb... regime.
The firm is able to wield such power over publishers bec ...

he online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why... less than happy?

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By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ...
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As students cut costs by buying books from cheaper onlin... downloading e-textbooks, campus bookstores sell fewer an... That's triggering an identity crisis for one of the olde... campus and leading some college officials to ask: If tex... does the ca

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HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on... 'Science and the Citizen'. In typical provocative style,... medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalis... He claims that reports in newspapers are unreliable and ... people migh

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African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th...
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"Communities need libraries more than they ever have don... are in a superb position to help [during difficult econo...
"People who say 'we don't need libraries because it's al ...

At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal.
In this century it's as likely to be graduates.
There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ...
Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

Ross Anderson, an academic in the Computer Laboratory at...
"It's a complete non-starter," he told the BBC.
"You can't just change all the systems because you come ...
He does however agree that there are "significant risks" ...
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In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks ... give out, estimates suggest.
Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which t ...

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Trafficked young 'missing in UK'
... missing children on the well-known 404 Not Found pages.

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times.
But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ...

Rural UK could get cheaper broadband under Ofcom plans
Fibre-optic cable, Eyewire The proposals could benefit a ...
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... and under plans set out by the communications regulator.

Cyber criminals who are alleged to have made $14m (£9m)... fraud have been arrested in Estonia.
The FBI alleged that the gang infected more then four mi ...

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

Egyptian town's 'zero unemployment'
Despite the ongoing global economic turmoil, one Egyptia ...
The people of Damietta attribute this to the quality of ...
Christian Fraser visited one of Damietta's many workshop ...

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