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CNET.co.uk has 193 stories on risk
News.blog: Scrabulous returns to Facebook as Wordscraper
News Many other games on Facebook bear strong-but-not-too-strong resemblances to board games such as Battleship and Risk, but so far haven't encountered the same corporate scrutiny. In the school playground of Facebook apps, Scrabulous is like that girl...
Tags: points, board, facebook, creators
31 July 2008, 9:28
BT to upgrade 10 million homes with fibre
News That's why we're saying that we would set a rate of return that reflects that risk. BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast Internet.
Tags: industry, generation, silicon, return
16 July 2008, 8:15
Mobile broadband boosts fibre diet
News And they need a time horizon that gives them a degree of assurance for a realistic period in the future; that they know, for example, that the regulator will not suddenly change the rules of the game to reduce the returns just as the rewards for...
Tags: rate, generation, communications, businesses
7 July 2008, 9:32
Virgin Media loses 3,000 customers' details
News Protection Act and also "risk losing the confidence and trust of their customers". Virgin Media has lost a CD containing 3,000 customers' unencrypted personal and banking details, it has emerged. According to a spokesperson for the...
Tags: loss, details, customers, protection
26 June 2008, 8:49
T-Mobile UK cuts EU data roaming costs
News Reding gave the mobile industry a 1 July deadline to voluntarily slash data roaming prices or risk regulation. T-Mobile UK is the latest mobile network to crack under the steely gaze of EC telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding and slash the price of...
Tags: customers, networks, cent, sending
23 June 2008, 9:02
Mobile Internet use booming in Europe
News February, she said: "Consumers should be warned by appropriate mechanisms so they no longer risk receiving shock bills of several thousand euros. Europe has taken to 3G faster than any other region in the world and usage is growing rapidly as...
Tags: research, services, cent, broadband
12 June 2008, 9:08
Flood alerts now available by text
News Biddle, head of flood risk process management at the EA, told CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com it is a vital system for the five million people in England and Wales living in flood risk areas. People will be able to sign up for flood alerts...
Tags: risk, alarm, services, alerts
30 May 2008, 8:52
Facebook execs explain profile redesign
News The company will unveil design changes at the risk of angering application developers that rely on Facebook for distribution and member usage. Facebook plans to unveil a redesign of profile pages in the coming weeks, to help members cut down on the...
Tags: beta, feed, feeds, distribution
22 May 2008, 9:58
Report: Apple wants more mobile music
News If the record companies ask too much money for ringtones and other features, they risk losing sales to the growing number of iPhone owners. Apple is in talks with the largest record companies as it attempts to boost the iPhone's offering of...
Tags: labels, industry, companies, itunes
20 May 2008, 9:41
Stolen computers 'phone home' to police
News McInnes said: "The more widely this technology is used, the more the risk goes up and the more it will devalue the attractiveness of computer theft. Computers that 'phone home' after being stolen are guiding police to the doorsteps of thieves...
Tags: tracking, computers, property, theft
15 April 2008, 8:49
Mobile tumour study 'very selective'
News He also fails to mention many of the other long-term animal studies, which found no overall increased cancer risk," said Rowley, referring to research that had been carried out with funding by the GSMA and the European Commission.
Tags: mobile phone, study, industry, research
2 April 2008, 9:14
Mobile use 'worse than asbestos and smoking'
News The risk may be as great as a two- to four-fold increase of developing a tumour on the same side of the head as the 'preferred side' for mobile phone use, the report warns. Australasian College of Surgeons, points out that previous studies which...
Tags: mobile phones, research, study, body
1 April 2008, 9:08
Videogame ratings update recommended
News Based on her research, Byron concludes that "the arousal brought on during some game play may have the same impact on children as high levels as stress", although "there is no clear evidence of desensitisation [to violence] in children".Ed Balls...
Tags: age, children, gaming, standards
27 March 2008, 13:41
'Manhunt 2' finally wins UK release
News We twice rejected Manhunt and then pursued a judicial review challenge, because we considered, after exceptionally thorough examination, that it posed a real potential harm risk. Today, in the end of one of the longest legal dramas video gaming has...
Tags: case, certificate, classification, granted
14 March 2008, 13:20
ID cards put off until 2015
News Smith will also set out plans to issue ID cards to people working in airports and other high security risk areas from next year -- a plan that has come under fire from trade unions. A government u-turn has ditched plans to force people to get a...
Tags: details, force, register, identity
7 March 2008, 9:23
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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