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2011-05-23 18:47:54     Ponoko media center - About Us - Ponoko

http://www.ponoko.com/about/the-big-idea

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

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2013-01-19 09:48:33     BBC News - Has chip and pin had its day?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21085738

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

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2011-01-20 18:29:04     BBC News - Rural UK could get cheaper broadband under Ofcom plans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12238569

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

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2010-09-16 15:13:37     Give Work - Our Mission | Samasource

http://www.samasource.org/about/

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

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2011-09-19 15:23:54     Science Exchange // The Online Marketplace For Outsourcing Science Experiments

http://scienceexchange.com/about

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

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2010-02-03 22:42:28     High speed internet in the pipeline for rural villages » The Journal

http://www.journal-online.co.uk/...peline-for-rural-villages

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 ...

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2024-02-10 07:41:22     Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public | France | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ed-to-ban-scrolling-in-public

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,

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2011-05-25 14:50:42     SEMIC.EU - The Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe

http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/snav/About_SEMIC.xhtml

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

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2010-11-21 20:24:45     Internet Eyes, CCTV Monitoring

http://interneteyes.co.uk/

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

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2011-06-03 07:45:37     Of Data Scientists, Big Data, the City and Dancers « Rev Dan Catt's Blog

http://revdancatt.com/...ists-big-data-the-city-and-dancers/

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

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2012-12-04 08:44:56     Emptyage — Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

http://www.emptyage.com/post/286798.../yes-i-was-hacked-hard

So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you s... Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. ... DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least o... someone gained entry to my iCloud account, used it to re... devices, an

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2013-02-05 12:24:12     The Internal Memo That Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../272832/#...

So were you able to keep your job when you got married?
I did get married on the sly. And then in 1951 they ...
The "law" Kolchin refers to is not so much a law but a c ...
ibm1-784x1024.jpg

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2011-07-08 10:01:51     Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

Some business establishments give customers the option o... RFID-based tab to pay for service, such as the Baja Beac... Barcelona.[114] This has provoked concerns into privacy ... they can potentially be tracked wherever they go by an i... to them.

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2010-10-14 12:31:03     Local Public Data Panel response to Health White Paper | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...a-panel-response-to-health-white-paper

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

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2009-10-30 14:22:23     Swishing - Ethical Fashion, Clothes swapping - Home

http://swishing.org/

The Art of Swishing involves getting your friends togeth... clothes and party at the same time. Every lady must brin...
(Large sacks of designer frocks are also gratefully rece ...
"Save money, save the planet, have a party: swishing eff ...
Lucy Shea,

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2009-08-18 10:44:12     Jeff Jarvis: How (and Why) to Replace the AP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...to-replace-th_b_244640.html

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the Intern... fighting the link and the link is the basis of the Inter... Perez-Pena's New York Times story today:
Tom Curley, The A.P.'s president and chief executive ...
Them's fightin' words: quoting

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2023-12-06 15:28:32     English High Court Decision: AI Inventions are Patentable, David Knight

https://briefings.brownrudnick.com/...entions-are-patentable

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

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2011-02-16 10:47:39     Copyright Intellectual Property Form Protection Information

http://www.copyrightprotection.com/history.htm

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

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2013-02-09 13:53:44     MPs call for Government to consider ending use of Cloud amid concerns that US authorities can access information - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...ess-information-8473693.html

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied...
The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ...
US law allo

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2011-07-12 11:21:44     Microchip implant (human) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)

The hand of microchip implant hobbyist Amal Graafstra, j... operation to insert an RFID tag. The yellow coloration c... used to disinfect the hand for surgery.

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2009-08-18 10:44:53     The imperatives of the link economy « BuzzMachine

http://www.buzzmachine.com/...peratives-of-the-link-economy/

The imperatives of the link economy
At a Berkman center session last week about supporting i ...
1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with ...
2. The recipient of links is the party responsible for m ...
... networks to help the recipients

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2010-05-29 16:07:38     ECS - The Institute for Web Science: Statement by Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Professor Nigel Shadbolt

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3223

The Institute for Web Science: Statement by Professor Si...
Issued 17.30, Tuesday 25 May 2010
Yesterday, as part of its £6 billion spending cuts, the ...
The following statement has been issued by Professor Sir ...
... p://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/

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2009-02-05 13:21:18     Google The Internet Bus Project

http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/landing/internetbus/

The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people... Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives... Internet experience to them through a customised Interne... which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

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2011-05-26 16:28:28     McKinsey & Company - Report - Internet matters: The net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity - May 2011

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/intern.../index.asp

The Internet's impact on global growth is rising rapidly... accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth over the last fiv... developed countries MGI studied, a sharp acceleration fr... contribution over 15 years. Most of the economic value c... Internet fa

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2015-09-19 18:30:03     Evernote, the first dead unicorn - Business Insider

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...e-first-dead-unicorn-2015-9

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

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2011-05-21 09:33:21     NHS IT project 'has cost billions without delivering ANY benefits' | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...s-delivering-ANY-benefits.html

The NHS’ controversial project to computerise all pati... cost billions of pounds without delivering any benefits,... damning report.
It warns the project is running years behind schedule an ...

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2011-07-12 11:27:31     This chip makes sure you always buy your round | Science | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...bserver.theobserversuknewspages

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

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2012-05-02 06:52:46     The Crisis of Money and Its Metamorphosis | X.commerce

https://www.x.com/devz.../crisis-money-and-its-metamorphosis

The past several years have not been kind to the world's... working poor. The foundations on which we have built the... commerce—the markets, the banks, and government—have...
Nevertheless, there is one institution that has continue ...
This is the

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2010-07-02 17:20:10     How Best Buy is Using The Semantic Web

http://www.readwriteweb.com/...is_using_the_semantic_web.php

The process of adding RDFa to Best Buy's webpages began ... the company began to look for ways to get more visibilit...
To solve this dilemma, Best Buy gave each store its own ...
Best Buy employees entered information into the blogs ev ...
Best Buy is

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2010-06-28 18:45:49     New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles | data.gov.uk

http://data.gov.uk/...nd-public-data-transparency-principles

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

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