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Twitter has suffered a widespread security breach that has prevented some users from accessing their accounts. read more »
Alan Turing is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London to mark the 100th anniversary of the computing pioneer's birth. read more »
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For £159, the Get Online @ Home scheme offers customers a refurbished Windows 7 desktop PC with a 15-inch monitor, keyboard, mouse, CD drive and USB ports, as well as a 1-year broadband contract with TalkTalk that comes with a monthly 40GB usage allowance and a telephone line with free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines. read more »
Retail industry analyst Pablo Saez Gil of ResearchFarm is convinced that Apple's iWallet digital wallet will use Bluetooth 4.0, eliminating the need for Near Field Communication (NFC). read more »
A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that the bittorent website has been suffering for the last 24 hours. read more »
UK internet service providers (ISPs) must now block access to popular Swedish BitTorrent file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, following a ruling by High Court judge Mr Justice Arnold. read more »
Hacker group Anonymous has been threatening since February to "shut the Internet down" by launching a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) on Saturday (31 March). The attack will target the world’s 13 DNS servers so that Internet users will be unable to perform domain name lookups , thus temporarily disabling the Internet. read more »
Tesco is selling the new iPad (nicknamed the "iPad 3") for just £49.99, according a product entry on the Tesco Direct website, which crashed just half an hour after our development team spotted it in a post on the Liverpool FC forums. read more »
Channel 4 is to launch a new catch-up TV channel that will give viewers the opportunity to catch up on the most popular content they have missed in the past seven days, without having to access online catch-up services. read more »
Lawmakers and regulators in both Europe and the US are proposing a potential clampdown on high frequency trading. read more »
Labour MP Tom Watson is the trending topic this afternoon on Twitter, after having had his account @tom_watson hijacked by a parliamentary intern while he was away from his desk in a meeting. read more »
WHSmith are moving their business away from real high street books and will sell two ebook readers from next week, in partnership with Canadian retailer Kobo. read more »
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In conjunction with the long-awaited launch of Amazon’s first tablet computer, the Amazon Kindle Fire in the US, comes the release of new Kindles, the Amazon Kindle (£89), the Amazon Kindle Keyboard (£109) and the Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3G (£149). read more »
Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has banned automatically renewable contracts (ARCs), which approximately 15 percent of UK consumers are thought to be locked into. read more »
Hewlett-Packard has informed its webOS Global Business Unit (GBU) employees that it will be split in two immediately, according to two leaked memos obtained by PreCentral.net. read more »
Leading multi-platform music-streaming app Spotify has finally turned its luck around and will likely report its first profit when it publishes the 2010 results later this year, according to industry expert Martin Scott at Analysys Mason. read more »
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