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BT to save iconic red phone boxes for £1

News Letters only went out to local authorities yesterday and Wednesday. A plan has been hatched that could save iconic red BT phone boxes for as little as a quid -- or just 1.3 per cent of the cost of installing a BT landline in your home.

Tags: cent, scheme, colour, wish

1 September 2008, 10:06

EU telecoms vote tackles file sharing

News Such legislation, enthusiastically backed by many in the content industry, would have Internet service providers (ISPs) issue warning letters to those customers they think have been illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted material, before...

Tags: package, providers, service providers, strikes

8 July 2008, 8:57

UK ISPs fight file-sharing laws

News Virgin Media recently became the first ISP to voluntarily address the problem of file sharing by agreeing to send out letters to households where music is being illegally downloaded or shared. The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws...

Tags: industry, sharing, file sharing, government

19 June 2008, 8:43

News.blog: Virgin Media to 'educate' downloaders

News A joint release posted on the British Polyphonic Industry (BPI) Web site said Virgin Media broadband customers using their accounts to illegally share music will receive letters from Virgin Media and the BPI.

Tags: industry, downloading, customers, letters

9 June 2008, 8:55

News.blog: Email autocomplete causes $1bn oopsie

News That's the one that guesses who you want to send the email to by looking at the first few letters you type. I've always been leery of Microsoft Outlook's autocomplete feature. It's right most of the time.

Tags: bar, note, microsoft outlook, autocomplete

7 February 2008, 9:26

New 'bonkers' tech tax changes

News Technology professionals have reacted angrily to tax changes announced this week by chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. The changes, announced on Tuesday, will penalise people who start technology companies, by abolishing so-called 'taper...

15 October 2007, 9:48

Anti-plagiarism tech catches cheaters

News The organisation has also sent letters to schools warning about the new plagiarism detection tactics. University admissions body Ucas is using automated detection technology to spot plagiarised applications from students.

2 October 2007, 8:29

Digg in hot water over copyright debacle

News Digg, after all, is no stranger to cease-and-desist letters. It has been a whirlwind two days for the social news site Digg, complete with a cease-and-desist letter, a mutinous user base and speculation that it might get sucked into a legal battle.

3 May 2007, 8:59

The death of the smiley?

News These are emoticons (or emotive icons), the arrangements of letters and symbols that have been inserted into emails, message board posts and instant messages since the fledgling days of the Internet. Author Vladimir Nabokov said in a 1969 New York...

14 March 2007, 10:41

Woman sues Yahoo for using her image

News According to documents provided to CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, Yelsky sent two letters to Yahoo in November asking that the company cease using her image in the message. A woman in the US is demanding $20m (£10.25m) from Yahoo for allegedly...

5 March 2007, 9:02

Microsoft set to unveil Windows Mobile 6

News Among the most visible changes is the ability to type in a few letters of a song, contact or email subject and have the phone automatically show only matching results. With its latest operating system, Microsoft is promising improved search, better...

8 February 2007, 9:16

Has SpiralFrog taken too big a leap?

News New management, headed by SpiralFrog's founder, Joe Mohen, countered by issuing letters notifying the absent executives that the company understood this to mean they had resigned. Shortly after Christmas, music start-up SpiralFrog appeared to be...

25 January 2007, 9:07

Apple calls lawyers over phoney iPhones

News Among those which have received lawyers' letters have been Mach5Products, which makes the Profit Pod, a device for collecting data from vending machines and Liquid Air Tab, which was on the receiving end of a preliminary action for using the term...

16 January 2007, 9:11

Users get more creative with passwords

News The average password is eight characters long and 81 per cent of those in the sampling consist of both letters and numbers, Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, wrote in an article published on Wired News on...

18 December 2006, 11:19

Doctors text appointment reminders

News As well as appointment reminders the system can send health messages such as invitations to receive flu jabs or attend asthma clinics, and saves time for staff by reducing the need to send letters or make phone calls.

24 November 2006, 9:43