Yesterday, the Daily Mail carried this story about a hapless - and innocent - chap who was arrested by gunpoint after a member of the public mistook the MP3 player in his pocket for a gun.
The story unfolds like an episode of 24, with this poor chap being followed on CCTV cameras, which seem to […]

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As reported in the Times, and followed up by CrunchGear, the Government here in the UK is considering forcing ISPs to take action against any of their users who are downloading copyrighted material. This is how the proposal will work (from the CrunchGear article):
Users “suspected” of having illegally downloaded something will get an e-mail from […]

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Following the news of recent layoffs, and Terry Semel’s departure, both Marketwatch and Reuters are reporting that Microsoft have just offered $44.6 billion in cash for Yahoo.
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If you’ve unlocked your iPhone, because you wanted to choose which airtime provider to use, or because you live outside the US, then be warned; Apple will be disabling your handset with their future software updates.
Not only will Apple’s future updates turn a working handset into a brick, users who suffer this because they […]

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So, Steve Jobs has called on the music industry to start selling music online without any DRM?
I think this has less to do with Steve wanting what’s best for the consumer and more to do with the recent news that Norway declared Apple’s DRM - specifically the way iTunes is locked into iPod - violates their consumer […]

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A worker from Boeing has been fired, after their laptop was stolen. The laptop was holding data for nearly 400,000 retired Boeing workers, and included home address, home telephone number, social security and salary details (I’m guessing that person had something to do with the Boeing pension scheme….).
My first reaction to this story was, […]

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