- Nov 27, 2008
- Online shops are suffering the same fate as the high street with fewer customers spending money.US net measurement firm comScore found that online shopping was in decline for the first time since it began measuring it in 2001.Online shoppers in the U...
- Nov 26, 2008
- An Apple iPhone advert has been banned by the advertising standards watchdog for exaggerating the phone's speed. The advert boasted the new 3G model was "really fast" and showed it loading internet pages in under a second. The Advertising S...
- Nov 24, 2008
- Hi-tech thieves who specialise in card fraud have a credit line in excess of $5bn (£3.35bn), research suggests.Symantec calculated the figure to quantify the scale of fraud it found during a year-long look at the internet's underground economy....
- Nov 20, 2008
- Digital television is spreading faster in Britain than in France, Canada, the US, Germany, Italy and Japan, according to UK communications regulator Ofcom.Research suggests that 86% of homes in Britain can now receive digital on their main set, while...
- Nov 9, 2008
- The world's first commercially available bionic hand has been recognised as one of the top inventions of 2008.The hand, developed by Livingston company Touch Bionics, was named alongside the Super Hadron Collider in Time magazine's top 50 innovations...
- Nov 9, 2008
- At 6:30 p.m. on a Friday, Park Sang Pil and three of his colleagues at South Korea's BCcard rush to play a round of golf together. Although their tee time is just 10 minutes away, they still haven't decided on which course they will be playing. Not t...
- Oct 31, 2008
- For centuries adults have been deriding young people for their laziness, venality, sexuality, shallowness and lack of moral fibre. Now they've added another item to the classic list of youthful failings: a lack of respect for their own privacy.For ye...
- Oct 31, 2008
- Laptop-makers including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 Sony-made batteries due to fears they may overheat or catch fire.Sony said the recall came after 40 instances of overheating, including four cases where users had minor bu...
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