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One million act to block nuisance calls

News One million households have hung up on nuisance calls by signing up to BT's privacy service. The telecom company said registrations are currently running at up to 30,000 every day, with a new registration roughly every three seconds.

22 August 2005, 9:57

Yahoo outages block users worldwide

News Outages across the world left many registered Yahoo users without email or instant-messaging capability on Tuesday and Wednesday. While the company acknowledged an early morning outage on Wednesday, many Yahoo user reports indicated that services...

22 June 2006, 9:07

GyroBike kids to flywheel round the block

News GyroBike wants to eliminate the wipeout. The company, a spin-off out of Dartmouth College, is coming out later this year or early next year with a gyroscope/flywheel that fits into the front wheel of a kid's bike.

28 April 2006, 9:54

MP demands ISPs declare child porn blocks

News A Labour MP is intent on forcing Internet service providers to block access to websites that contain images of child pornography. Speaking to CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com, she said the reading had gone "very well" and hopes it will set in...

27 October 2005, 9:45

NY's 'Halo 3' launch nearly starts riot

News But a block away at the Best Buy store on 5th Avenue and 44th Street, the fans waiting for the launch of Microsoft's Halo 3 videogame couldn't have cared less. With only 20 minutes left before midnight, three camo-clad bikers atop all-terrain...

25 September 2007, 8:14

No 'Second Life' at work?

News Security company Sophos said it has received requests from several big companies to have the ability to block corporate network access to Second Life, a virtual world which claims to have 4.8 million 'residents' across the world.

22 March 2007, 10:00

Apple's Tiger unleashed in San Francisco

News PST, 200 or so people lined up for more than a block. By the time the doors opened, the line stretched for a block down Stockton Street. A block away, amid some balloons but far less fanfare, retailer CompUSA also put the new OS on sale, offering a...

3 May 2005, 9:02

UK to incorporate new biometric standards

News Use of the standards should ensure that one company's equipment will produce a biometric data block in a format that can be compared directly with data produced by another company's equipment. These four standards are the first, and probably the...

30 August 2005, 9:15

Academics crack Great Firewall of China

News By forging the source address of a packet containing a 'sensitive' keyword, people could trigger the firewall to block access between source and destination addresses for up to an hour at a time. If an attacker had identified the machines used by...

4 July 2006, 8:44

Yahoo goes drag-and-drop for mapping

News API and a set of Building Block APIs for Yahoo Maps, which require more programming skills than the Simple Publishing API released in June, The Syndication and Building Block APIs will allow developers to embed a Yahoo map into their own Web page...

3 November 2005, 9:05

Microsoft invents new mobile keyboard

News To spell an 'h' a user starts in the neutral space (the centre, or block 5), sweeps his or her finger or a stylus to block 3 (for letters g, h, i, j and k) and then to block 2 (because h is the second letter in previously selected group 3).

4 May 2006, 9:11

Microsoft to lock Vista pirates out of PCs

News In XP, the piracy-busting features only put a block on downloading additional programs from Microsoft's Web sites. During this grace period warnings will be displayed and Vista will block access to the Windows Defender antispyware tool, ReadyBoost...

5 October 2006, 10:29

Legal music network struggles with illegal content

News The new service is supposed to identify unprotected versions of the record labels' copyrighted works as they are being downloaded, and block them before they reach a computer's hard drive. The issues are reminiscent of the last major...

3 November 2005, 9:02

What's Google censoring in China?

News Google said in a statement on Wednesday that its filters are "intended to block the minimum required to comply with Chinese laws and regulations. But while both MSN and Google deleted pornography and political sites from search listings, Google...

27 January 2006, 10:56

Buy Vista for the security, Allchin says

News This is an attempt to block unwanted software such as rootkits from nestling deep into the PC. For businesses, Vista will offer tighter control over removable storage devices by letting administrators centrally block the installation of, for...

30 January 2006, 10:14

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Format wars: The tech that should have won

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