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UK Police Now Allowed To Hack Into Your PC

Desire Athow — Mon, 05 Jan 2009

The UK Home Office has increased the powers of police, by allowing them to routinely hack into citizens’ personal computers without even a court warrant.

Government May Hand Over Web-to-Phone Database To Private Firm To Cut Costs

Desire Athow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009

The former director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, has told the Guardian that the government's plan to plough billions into a giant database and then hand over control to private firms to slash costs.

Internet Classification Proposal Attracts Controversial Comments On Fellow MP's Blog

Desire Athow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009

Labour Party MP for West Bromwich East Tom Watson called, back in December 2008, for internet users to comment on the idea of a "cinema-style age ratings" as proposed by his fellow MP, Andy Burnham.

Google To Roll Out UK Street View Feature In Spring 2009

Desire Athow — Mon, 29 Dec 2008

Search Giant Google is set to debut Street View for UK some time next year as the mind-numbing process of collating and processing millions of photographs of Britain's streets and roads continues unabated.

5 reasons why Cinema-like ratings For English websites will Ultimately fail

Desire Athow — Mon, 29 Dec 2008

Andy Burnham, UK's Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, is backing plans to introduce Cinema-like ratings for websites, amongst a number of things which has attracted a number of comments (and even prompted Mike Butcher from Techcrunch UK to "steal" the culture Secretary's Twitter account.

IP Troll Sues Microsoft, Apple And Google Over Image Previews

Desire Athow — Mon, 29 Dec 2008

A small Indiana-based firm has sued some of the biggest tech behemoths, including the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Apple, saying that it owns a patent on general previewing feature used by most of the operating systems and browsers to show small images of the files before opening them

Websites Should Get Movie-like Ratings Says UK Culture Minister

Desire Athow — Sat, 27 Dec 2008

The Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, Andy Burnham, is set to announce a number of new proposals to protect younger members of the society from "harmful and offensive material" which can be easily found on the internet.

Psystar Says Mac OS X Is Not Protected By Copyright

Desire Athow — Wed, 24 Dec 2008

In a fresh set of allegations, Mac clone maker Psystar charged Apple with inadequate handling of copyrights of its Mac OS X.

Podcast : Managing Passwords Made Easy

Desire Athow — Mon, 22 Dec 2008

Ben Chai of Incomingthought.com interviews Udi Mokadi, discusses how to dynamically protect the administrator passwords for your databases, OS and network devices.

Orange iPhone Exclusivity Deal Suspended in France

Desire Athow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008

The French competition regulator has temporarily suspended a deal between France Telecom and Apple Inc. over the distribution of iPhone 3G, which is made available exclusively to customers of France Telecom's Orange service.