British journalist Paul Martin freed by Hamas
A British journalist detained in Gaza by Hamas was released without charge
today, the Foreign Office said.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:48:49 +0000 Dutch duo behind Fantastic Man launch sister title
This morning, I started my day in the local Pret A Manger huddled over a skinny latte and a gay porn magazine called Butt. I can't think of many porn mags, gay or straight, that I'd be happy to read at 8.30am in Pret, if at all. But then Butt, with its apparently unpretentious Courier typeface, small format and smiling cover boy isn't really like the rest. Did I mention that it's printed on blushing pink paper too?
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 US city schools locked down after Australia online threat
A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking sites led to the lockdown on Wednesday of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis, officials said.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Current Twitter trends: 'texts I hate', 'don't call yourself...', PlayStation Move
The term "#nowplaying" is garnering the most discussion in the Twitter charts on March 11 for the second day running as people share the names of songs and artists they like to listen to.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Bing gains US search market share for ninth straight month
Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing slightly increased its share of the US search market in February, the ninth straight month of modest gains, online tracking firm comScore said Wednesday.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Your location is a commodity for internet companies, advertisers
Location-based services have superseded the real-time web as the driving force behind internet innovation this year.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Radiation murder libel payout for Boris Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 High Court libel damages today over claims on a
Russian TV broadcast about the radiation poisoning murder of Alexander
Litvinenko.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:40 +0000 Watchdog dismisses complaint over sex 'gel' ad
Complaints about a television ad for a sex lubricant that appeared before its
11pm restriction were not upheld by a watchdog.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:45 +0000 Heads must roll at the BBC, says Geldof after Ethiopia aid report
Bob Geldof upped the ante in the row between Band Aid and the BBC yesterday by calling for the director of the BBC World Service, Peter Horrocks ? who is also the BBC's director of global news ? to be sacked.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Martha Lane Fox: 'I used to think the internet was just a tool. Now I know it can change society'
Martha Lane Fox bursts through the door of the caretaker's office in a Birmingham council block. "Hello, I'm Martha," she says with a brisk smile and outstretched hand.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 TV licence fee to increase to £145 from 1 April
The cost of the BBC licence fee will increase by 2 per cent to £145.50 from 1
April. This year's rise from £142.50 for the colour licence is part of a
six-year BBC funding settlement agreed in 2007.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Paedophile 'alarm button' was rejected by Facebook, say police
Senior police officers last night accused Facebook of having inadequte child protection safeguards following the rape and murder of teenager who met her killer on the networking site.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 From goggle to Google: TV meets the internet
So I'm back from holiday, and I need to catch up on a couple of weeks of American Idol. The older shows I found via file-sharing services and watched on the laptop last night; the most recent are safely stored in the cable television's digital video recorder, so I'll settle on the sofa for those tonight.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 UK hails the year of catch-up
Catch-up television over the internet has proved hugely popular in the UK, with the BBC's iPlayer leading the way, but most households are limited to watching on a computer screen. Yet all that is set to change in 2010, according to industry experts.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Clifford accepts £1m payout from tabloid
The PR agent Max Clifford has accepted a £1m settlement in return for dropping his legal action against the News of the World amid claims his voicemail messages were hacked into, it has been reported.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 The Big Question: Should we act to eliminate the risks in using social networking websites?
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Current Twitter trends: 'Sexual Attractions,' 'Bitch It's Bad'
The meme "nowplaying" has sprung back into the top of Twitter's most talked about topics on March 10 after a few days' absence from the charts.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 BBC Trust chief accuses Sky of misrepresentation
The satellite broadcaster BSkyB was today accused of misrepresenting its
position in the market place in order to benefit commercially from the
current debate over the future of the BBC.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:32 +0000 Facebook fears after sex offender logged on to murder
Questions were last night raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders after it emerged that a convicted rapist was able to use the social networking site Facebook to befriend a vulnerable teenager he then raped and murdered.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:01 +0000 Vigilantes could murder Venables, says judge
Jon Venables could be murdered by vengeful vigilantes if his new identity is
revealed, the judge who granted his anonymity warned last night.
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