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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

But as these businesses have grown and gained popularity, security issues have also surfaced. Fears over identity theft, account theft, phishing (typically sending out fake e-mails that copy the appearance of trustworthy Web sites in order to dupe unsuspecting customers into giving out sensitive information) or buying faulty or broken products have always been a problem for eBay.

the online auction site eBay.com is the perfect place to find a treasure trove of hard-to-find products and collectibles.

One of a bidder's worst nightmares is spending lots of money on an item, only to receive the wrong product or nothing at all.

5,000 Windows XP users have to say about their current operating system of choice, why they haven’t moved to Windows Vista, and what they think about Windows 7.

Music is everywhere online, but mostly subject to one huge caveat - it costs. Those who don't pay tend to steal it using one of the numerous unofficial file-sharing download sites.

NEW YORK - Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.

Users will be able to read classic and new comics page by page or frame by frame. Sony says PSP owners will be able to access a range of media through the digital reader service, but it gave no further details.

Apple's third iPhone generation has ousted Japan's own phone manufacturers for the top sales spot in the country,

outsold even more advanced touchscreen phones from the local market, such as the runner-up Sharp SH-06. Of the top ten, the 16GB iPhone 3GS was the only other non-Japanese phone to make the list, occupying ninth place ahead of the Sharp SH001 camera phone.

Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.

The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims . It then runs a Google PageRank type algorithm for each victim looking for the most relevant attackers.

Scala is not really a scripting language — that's not it's main characteristic. In fact, it can express everything that Java can and I believe there are a lot of things it can offer for large systems that go beyond the capabilities of Java

tiniest laser

Nanophotonics may usher in a host of radical advances, including powerful "hyperlenses" resulting in sensors and microscopes 10 times more powerful than today's and able to see objects as small as DNA; computers and consumer electronics that use light instead of electronic signals to process information; and more efficient solar collectors.

new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry,

in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.

Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.

Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.

Both groups are hoping to win the right to sell .eco "top-level domain names", which are similar to .com or .uk.

Big Room also would like to see companies use .eco sites to publish all of their green information.

Big Room, which is endorsed by WWF International and Green Cross, also plans to generate money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund "sustainability projects".

Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses.

Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses.

Canada-based RIM has come top of the magazine's latest annual guide to the 100 fastest-growing businesses.

"At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.

Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.

Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.

Claims of iPhones exploding have surfaced in Britain and France, with at least one person, a teenager, sustaining an eye injury. In addition, KIRO TV in Seattle has turned up 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that include cases of burning or flaming iPods.

There have been many well-documented cases of laptop batteries bursting into flames, so it's plausible that iPhones could heat up too, given that they use the same (or similar) battery technology.

I'm on my third iPhone (having upgraded twice), and I've also owned an iPod Touch. I loved them all dearly, largely because they never exploded into flames, burning me and my family alive. Just saying.

Millions of Africans are using mobile phones to pay bills, move cash and buy basic everyday items.

Setting up a bank account on your phone is straightforward. All you do is register with an approved agent, provide your phone, along with an ID card, and then deposit some cash onto your account.

The 1740 virtual castle was cloned and then torn down to leave it looking like today's ruin.

Second Life is the best-known virtual world on the internet.

People are shown as digital versions of themselves, known as avatars, who can build homes and businesses, buy and sell land and have relationships.

In the UK, full versions of Windows 7 Home Premium -- not an upgrade edition -- are going to cost around £65. That's less than the price the Yanks have to pay just for an upgrade version -- $120 (£72) -- and half what they'll have to cough up for a full version -- $200 (£122).

Anyway: good news, everyone! For once, we can sit back and watch Americans shafting Americans, instead of us. Over pricing, that is. Is this the end of rip-off Britain, or a glorious one-off? Sadly, we suspect the latter, but let us know what you think in the comments.

• Games are getting larger, which meant longer development time and larger staff costs.

the issues Facebook had created in their romantic relationships,"

a good-looking stranger

You don't know your partner's history with this person or the nature of their relationship,