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A UK woman is offering eBay users the chance to choose her name.Nokia launches N96
Nokia Australia this morning announced the availability of its flagship N-Series handset, the N96.Scandal as UK crime domain sold to German
The now-defunct UK government agency responsible for investigating computer crime, the NHTCU, no longer owns its domain name after it was sold to an enterprising German internet marketer.UK gov't loses personal data on 4M people in one year
The U.K. government has lost the personal information of up to four million citizens in one year alone.Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet
Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.Should we care about Web censorship in China?
Aside from air pollution, the one issue that has occupied the final days before the Beijing Olympics is Internet censorship.Is your mobile phone trying to kill you?
Don't look now, but your mobile phone is out to get you. This deadly device can cause accidents, give you cancer or even kill you, according to a rising chorus of alarmist reports.Coding green for the future
We know that some computer hardware -- PCs and servers, for example -- are greener than others. They are built to be more energy efficient and easier to recycle, plus they use fewer hazardous materials. Certifications such as Energy Star and EPEAT make it easy to find at least some of those machines.Mobile phones and the digital divide
Whether you're building an application for the 3G iPhone in the United States or trying to figure out how to deliver health information via SMS (Short Message Service) to a rural community in Botswana, the mobile space is diverse and exciting in equal measure. It touches on more fields than you could throw a phone at: anthropology, appropriate technology, electronics, programming, telecommunications, geography, literacy, gender and poverty to name a few. It's this diversity that makes it so exciting. Yet, at the same time, it's this same diversity that presents us with many of our greatest challenges. In many ways, the mobile world -- particularly in the ICT4D (ICT for Development) field -- is fragmented and often misunderstood.Open Web Foundation formed
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