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Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
February 2009
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Wardens kill murderer's Facebook connection
23 Feb 2009 -
Romance defies recession as Interflora sales bloom
20 Feb 2009 -
Teenage hackers put the fun back into computer crime
10 Feb 2009
Facebook has the power to connect users with anyone, anywhere - even a murderer in a Guernsey jail. Craig Rouget, who was convicted of murder in the island's capital of St Peter Port in 2007 when ...
Well it seems the recession did not affect Valentine's Day business for florists. According to ScanSafe, web traffic to popular online flower store Interflora this Valentine's Day was 300% higher ...
Security firms would have us believe that joyful teenage hackers have been replaced by ruthless organised professional criminals, but the puerile variety has definitely not gone away. To prove it, ...
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Stephen Fry gives Twitter the stamp of approval
10 Feb 2009 -
ITV discovers there is such a thing as too many ad breaks
10 Feb 2009 -
Google finds something it wasn't searching for
10 Feb 2009
Twitter is the new Facebook. For readers who don't know, Twitter users have 140 characters, and no more, to write a message about anything they wish.For those thinking that it sounds like a ...
Viewer of last week's Merseyside derby were probably already feeling disgruntled as a spectacularly boring football match stretched into extra time towards the seemingly inevitable spectacle of ...
Google's "Don't be evil" motto may be weighing a little heavy right now. Privacy campaigners are less than impressed with its technology that allows users to track friends and family on their ...