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Is tech saturation good or bad for the modern teenager?
Arguments can be made either way, but there’s no debat ...
People aged 18-34 have an average of 319 online connecti ...
Pew also recently reported that 63% of teenagers text me ...
... to help or

It has become increasingly common for sponsors of resear... in the UK) to mandate that the publications from that re... access’ that is, available freely to anyone who wants ... – public money has funded this work and it was ridicul...
Yet public

Jaron Lanier's book, You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto, ... feathers in the US. The book takes a swipe at Web 2.0, a... destroying individuality, destroying creativity and dest... middle-class professions. On the cover of the book are t...
"It's early

Jeff Randall: Here in Britain we’re very good at comin... but not very good at turning them into money-making busi... that?
Martin Knight: I think it’s because we underfund early ...

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, fo...
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur acr ...
Pendo Luisi, 27 years old, borrowed $175 to open a cafe ...
Kiva was born of the following beliefs:
... r 2009, Kiva has facilitated

Last summer, I deleted my Dropbox account after the comp... horrifying security breach. This week, I reluctantly ope... account. Within minutes, I received a message from Dropb... their back-end processes are still problematic. Here’s... concerned.

Last Wednesday was a landmark moment for the tech industry, or at any rate for that part of it that aspires to do business in the EU. It was the day when six of the biggest companies in the world had to start complying with the EU’s Digit...

Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists... to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or... “ism” and start exploring how technology is changing... of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about metho... powerful te

Microsoft has admitted that it will hand over data to th... if properly requested, even if that data is stored somew... the U.S.

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an ...
Cory Doctorow at 10:06 PM April 8, 2010
From the you'd-have-to-laugh-or-you'd-have-to-shoot-your ...
The Right Honourable Stephen Timms is the UK's "Minister ...
... imms MP doesn't know what an

Misinterpretation of the Technology Adoption Lifecycle Model
There are two versions of the technology adoption lifecy ...
The second version is an adaptation of the original that ...
Both versions of the technology adoption lifecycle are u ...
... hungry

Monday 22 March 2010
Speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future
A transcript of a speech given by the Prime Minister on ...

More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

Most of us don't even realise it, but the home pages for... heavyweights such as Amazon, Facebook and YouTube have c... recognition since they launched.
Likewise, most of us don't remember that Google once had ...
With their plain colour schemes and emp

MUMBAI, India - It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th ... unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet... which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux ope ...

New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it t... minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data

NotFound page The project changes 404 pages to display i...
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Trafficked young 'missing in UK'
... missing children on the well-known 404 Not Found pages.

Of course I said yes and said my rate would be £75 for the usage (I wasn’t sure on what to charge, so I checked with some professional photographers what the rate was. They all said between £75 and £90, so I went in at the lower end of...

Our ambition is to become the world leader in open data,... accountability revolution that the internet age has unle...

Over the past few years, one of the most important shift... world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semicl... that use the Internet for transport but not the browser ... It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model ... computing,

Part of the Dairy Crest group, milk&more is your same fr... milkmen – now online. In addition to fresh milk and ev... offer a huge and ever-expanding range of essentials to o... homes all over the UK. From bread and milk to the freshe...
We’ve bee

Perceived usefulness, ease of use, and usage of informat...
Source MIS Quarterly archive
Volume 16 , Issue 2 (June 1992) table of contents
Pages: 227 - 247
... Peter A. Todd

Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to...
It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials su ...
We kicked off at TechCrunch40 at the end of 2007 with a ...
The core of this vision is the trade in product designs ...
... nstead

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" ...
"I personally won't use

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.

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

Scotland's most remote communities could soon gain acces... broadband, according to researchers working on an intern... program.
The Tegola Project, run jointly by the University of Edi ...
Professor Peter Buneman of the School of Informatics at ...

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,