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battling swine flu

"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it,"

The game is played online

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."

In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value

This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.

Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles.In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to $299 and in the UK to £249.99.

new slim-line PS3 would be available from the first week of September. "It has the same features and functionality [as the old PS3], but now it is 32% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% less power," he said.

a new digital reader for the PSP - called Digital Comics - that will allow users to read Spiderman, Fantastic 4 and other DC comics on their portable, along with a range of graphic novels.

be more transparent about what data it collects and why.

privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account

The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.

iPhones and iPods heating up or bursting into flames in the US and the UK.

The system issue alerts for multiple products every week, sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but often with no consequence.

"I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen," he told AFP.

The process of turning off the analogue television signal in Wales begins

It means that viewers who do not have digital will not be able to see BBC Two from Wednesday, and then they will lose all channels within a month

Digital UK said 90% of homes in Wales already had digital TV

If your job involves having to destroy hard disks and make sure that their data is impossible to recover, you’ll know that it can be an expensive business: properly disposing of each hard disk can cost between £5 and £10 and, when you’re managing the IT affairs of potentially large businesses, these costs can mount up.

simply chopping the platter in half wouldn’t remove the data” and confirmed that it could be recovered – but the costs of retrieving any remaining information “would be prohibitive”. That’s because you’d need “something along the lines of an electron scanning microscope” to read the data from the remains of the platter – and those currently sell second-hand for at least £40,000. Tanfield-Johnson also confirmed that, once you’d cracked open a hard disk to extract the platters within, recovering any data would become even more difficult, because you’d need “the same model and make of [circuit] board” to access each track of data on the disk. So, unless you’re willing to spend tens of thousands of pounds, it looks like your data is safe.