BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts - 0 views
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The mostly male youngsters at this centre all have the same problem - they are addicted to the internet.
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elling, this is where they hope to be cured.
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And through a tough programme of physical exercise, medication and couns elling, this is where they hope to be cured. There has been a lot of interest in these boot camps over recent weeks after two teenagers were beaten up at two separate camps in China. One died, the other was seriously injured.
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Controlling editing on Wikipedia Pages - 0 views
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site will require that revisions to pages about living people and some organisations be approved by an editor.
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The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia
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If a page has a number of controversial edits or is repeatedly vandalised, editors can lock a page, so that it cannot be edited by everyone.
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Music and programming "To the Beat" - 0 views
Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought - 0 views
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"At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."
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"highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"
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that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.
The Net closes in on internet piracy - 0 views
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Seven million people could be criminalised under government plans to crack down on internet piracy,
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The illicit downloading of music and films on the internet,
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persuaded by the argument for tough laws to curb illegal file-sharing after an intensive lobbying campaign by influential people in the music and film industry.
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A Brief History Of Social Media - 0 views
Facebook privacy lawsuit & child protection - 1 views
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a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."
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the minor's medical information may have been stored
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Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,
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West Africa looses and regains internet connection - 0 views
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A cable fault that caused a major blackout
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causing severe problems for its banking sector, government and mobile phone networks.
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Services were severely disrupted or knocked out in Togo, Niger and Benin.
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Large-scale Credit Card Fraud - 0 views
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identity theft
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internet and telephone transactions
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payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain.
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Slashdot IT Story | Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD - 0 views
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The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk.
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the infected CDs
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rather than an actual attack.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Pirates look forward to business - 0 views
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UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact).
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"They have advertising on their sites and, as those sites attract more eyeballs, they are getting more advertising income.
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Isohunt, Mininova and The Pirate Bay.
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 1 views
BBC - dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world - 0 views
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Meet Bustadrive, a home-made hard disk destroyer | PC Pro blog - 0 views
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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.
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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.
'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views
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aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
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Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
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"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.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Exploding' iPhones investigated - 0 views
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iPhones and iPods heating up or bursting into flames in the US and the UK.
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The system issue alerts for multiple products every week, sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but often with no consequence.
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"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.
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Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views
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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.
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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.
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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.
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