Police chiefs have urged websites to remove violent video footage of children fighting, held on such sites as popular video sharing website Youtube.
Panorama found that films showing vicious fights between children are regularly uploaded to sharing websites.
Police say the companies should monitor what is posted on their sites and remove any violent or […]
Posted on July 30th, 2007 by admin
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Japanese game giant Nintendo has seen its quarterly profits rocket thanks to the popularity of its Wii game console.
Nintendo’s net profits hit 80.25bn yen (approximately £323.9m) in the three months to June, up from 15.55bn yen in the same period a year earlier.
The Wii has been successful in reaching non-traditional gamers such […]
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by admin
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Five years after the idea was first proposed, the so-called ‘$100 laptop’ is set to go into mass production.
Hardware suppliers have been given the go ahead to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders for […]
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by admin
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Demand for new products such as the Windows Vista saw Microsoft make profits of $3.03bn (£1.47bn) in the past quarter, up a healthy 11% on last year.
For 2007-8 as a whole, the software colossus reported a $14bn profit on total sales of more than $51.1bn.
Profits in the past three months were dented […]
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by admin
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UK internet firm Pipex has sold its broadband and phone business to Italian competitor Tiscali for £210m ($426.6m).
The sale of the division follows a four-month strategic review of Pipex by investment bank UBS.
The purchase of Pipex’s broadband unit - which was listed for sale in March - is expected to lift Tiscali’s […]
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by admin
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Following in the footsteps of Google suggest, Yahoo Search (.com) now has built-in search suggestions, which could save you some typing. – or help elaborate on your search.
The suggestions starts after you have typed three characters. Typing loa, for example, produces a drop-down list that starts with the most popular search – in this […]
Posted on July 12th, 2007 by admin
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Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the much sought-after deal to sell Apple’s iPhone in the UK.
Reports suggest that O2 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the new phones on sale in time for Christmas the period.
However a spokesman for O2’s owner, Spain’s Telefonica, denied […]
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft has said that it is facing a bill in excess of $1bn after extending all warranty’s on their xbox360 consoles from 1 year to 3.
The company conceded that it had been forced to make “an unacceptable number of repairs” to the consoles after key hardware failed.
Customers who suffer the problems will now […]
Posted on July 6th, 2007 by admin
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Controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has gone down.
The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after Apples iTunes store.
It was the subject of countless lawsuits from British and American record labels that claimed it violated […]
Posted on July 5th, 2007 by admin
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Nintendo’s revolutionary Wii console outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 in it’s Japanese’s homeland by six to one last month, says research.
Nintendo sold 270,974 Wii consoles last month while Sony sold 41,628 PS3s, according to Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher that tracks sales of games consoles.
Nintendo has sold approximatley 2.76m Wii consoles in Japan since the […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by admin
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