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Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.

different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.

different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.

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.

aimed at countries where broadband is limited.

Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.

"Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.

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.

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.

The Booklet also has integrated Bluetooth, GPS, a webcam and an SD card reader. Nokia claims it has a 12-hour battery life.

"The presence of this internal wireless modem is why the Booklet 3G is a natural extension to Nokia's traditional phone handset product range."

"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility," said Kai Oistamo, Nokia's executive vice president for devices.

The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals

Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.

For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.

MySpace will acquire the popular music discovery service iLike that allows users listen to and share music across social networks.

The company has 55 million registered users and has been prominent on most social networks apart from MySpace

limit application developers' access to user information,

deactivated account information should be deleted

Americans who only gets TV signals over the air, you may find yourself with some new options,

The cold economic facts are that broadcasters collectively spent $10 billion just switching over to digital TV. And content is expensive: Producing just one evening newscast can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

we've got the digital TV," Copps says. "Now what are we going to do with it?"

and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."

She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.

Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.

The study, conducted by LegitScript, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn, an Internet compliance company, found that 90 percent of the reviewed Internet pharmacy advertisements were from fake or illegal Internet pharmacies.

"We were able to purchase potentially addictive drugs without a prescription or any age verification via Bing.com ads," LegitScript President John Horton told CNET News. "We also received counterfeit medication. Microsoft profits from these illegal ads, which put Internet users at risk."

"the Internet has become a haven for drug seekers and abusers, particularly (regarding) controlled substances. It is a much more serious and dangerous phase of the Internet."

Their reports feature alongside those of full-time Afghan journalists to ensure the election and reporting of it is as "free

The Alive in Afghanistan project plots the SMS reports on an online map.

The text messages are collected via a free-platform known as FrontlineSMS, developed by UK programmer Ken Banks.

violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.

alleges the social-networking site

The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,

Thrasher is accused of posting a photo of a teenage girl, along with personal information about her, in the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist

the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.

It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.

The CD is not a fair fight with the download.

The controller uses a microphone combined with visual and infrared cameras to control the onscreen action.

Two demos were on show at gamescom for people to try out, including a playable version of Burnout Paradise in which users control cars using an imaginary steering wheel, moving their feet forwards or backwards to control the speed.

Microsoft has allowed the public to get their hands on its new hands-free games controller for the first time.The US firm showed off the "Natal" technology, designed for use with its Xbox 360 console, at the European games convention gamescom in Germany.