I realise there’s a lot of acronyms in that headline but bear with me. The BBC has just gotten permission from its overlords – the BBC Trust – to do a deal with a minor demon (ITV) in an …
Following on from last week’s scare into Wi-Fi being potentially harmful for kids, today we have another one, with a leading government advisor claiming that kids should not place laptops on their laps when using Wi-Fi.
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Director John Carpenter says horror films do not cause violence and do not need regulating.
Steve McQueen’s 1963 Ferrari is expected to fetch between $800,000 and $1.2m at auction in California.
Prosecutors dismiss a car theft case against Daniel Baldwin, star of TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
The ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan are due to be launched into space from a site in New Mexico.
Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood dominate the nominations for the Bafta Cymru awards.
Laptops with wireless internet links should not be put on children’s laps, a government adviser says.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s slave trading past gets a
human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts
putting the personal histories of the victims online for the
first time.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry will
start filtering “immoral” video and audio messages sent via
mobile phones, state television reported on Saturday.
Half a virtual mouse brain has been built on a supercomputer by IBM researchers.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Looking for the perfect watch? The
Internet has a wealth of resources to find just the right
accessory for your wrist — new, gently used, antique, or
custom-made.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Telecommunications Ministry will
start filtering “immoral” video and audio messages sent via
mobile phones, state television reported on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s slave trading past gets a
human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts
putting the personal histories of the victims online for the
first time.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Norwegian company that supplies
search technology to business users is looking to help
newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising
without sharing it with big Internet services.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. said on
Friday some batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook
computers may have performance problems, but they do not pose a
safety risk.
Bristol City Council overrules film censors to allow under-18s to see the new Shane Meadows film This Is England.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A leatherback turtle
called Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica
to the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 3 or 4 mph
(5-6 kph), organisers said on Friday.
The former head of the failed South West Film Studios is jailed for fraudulently obtaining £1.87m of EU grant money.
The OFT recommends that BSkyB’s purchase of a 17.9% stake in ITV is referred to the Competition Commission.