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Police to test bomb-detecting body scanners

News A new, smaller device has been developed by Qinetiq that is designed to inspect individuals or groups of people, with the image showing the surface of the body and objects under clothing. The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning...

25 July 2005, 9:50

Bid to trademark the word 'Linux' rejected

News An attempt by Australia's peak Linux body to register the name 'Linux' on behalf of Linus Torvalds has failed. The registration would have prevented companies from claiming the name as their own, but would have allowed them to use it commercially...

19 September 2005, 8:47

Christmas e-commerce breaks records?

News Britain's online spending in the run up to Christmas has exceeded expectations, according to the global e-retailing body, Interactive Media in Retail Group. The e-retail body initially anticipated that UK online spending in December would total...

3 January 2007, 9:17

Music industry wants ISPs to stop pirates

News The annual digital music report from music industry body IFPI said ISPs have been "very slow to help" the industry crack down on Internet file-sharers. The music body has been in talks with ISPs for a couple of years but the "discussions have been...

19 January 2007, 9:26

'Burnout' ads banned in UK

News The industry standards body received complaints which centred on two points: firstly that the "reference to and the depiction of violence in the poster was offensive" and secondly that it was "likely to encourage violence, dangerous driving and...

28 June 2007, 8:52

Photos: Nikon D80 comes into focus

News With prices ranging from around £700 for the body alone, Nikon seems to be aiming for the best of both worlds. The Nikon D80 body can be purchased alone for around £700, or as a kit with lens for around £950.

10 August 2006, 10:08

UK government details game rating options

News The Electronic Leisure Software Publishers Association -- the trade body representing games publishers in the UK -- has been fighting in the corner of PEGI (Pan European Game Information), the current nonstatutory pan-European system, which...

Tags: children, role, industry, weight

1 August 2008, 9:39

MP calls for international cybercrime taskforce

News Speaking at the Webroot Spyware Summit in London on Thursday, Palmer said that a UN body could, for example, put pressure on ISPs to exclude servers that host criminal Web sites. The UN needs to have a body to ask ISPs not to link to servers from...

24 October 2005, 9:27

'Cinema-style' ratings to classify videogames?

News The BBFC is an independent body, and currently gives ratings to only a small minority of games released in the UK. GameSpot contacted UK games publisher body ELSPA for a statement, but one was not available at the time of publishing.

Tags: released, government, body, british

12 February 2008, 8:44

Mobile use 'worse than asbestos and smoking'

News During a 14-month-long study Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phone use in recent medical and scientific literature in addition to press and Internet coverage -- and concludes "there is a significant and increasing...

Tags: mobile phones, research, study, body

1 April 2008, 9:08

Photos: Wearable tech at 2nd Skin show

News Friday's show, local artist Sha Sha Higby performed within her ephemeral body sculpture of layered wood, silk, paper, urushi, ceramic and gold leaf. Parkes' Piezing generates power using the natural gestures of the human body in motion.

Tags: body, art, air, designs

28 April 2008, 9:24

High-tech scan reveals mummy's secrets

News The event was noteworthy because it was the first time the public had been able to peek through a mummy's wrappings and see the body inside with such a high degree of detail. And to those who did the painstaking work of the 60,000 scans of Sherit's...

4 August 2005, 10:18

News.blog: eBay axes 'Psycho' land auction

News The property, where a headless body, assorted body parts and clothing made from human skin was found in 1957, remains for sale.eBay regulations also prohibit or restrict the sale of items in more than 80 specific categories, including the sale of...

11 April 2006, 8:37

Employers rein in Facebook 'addicts'

News The TUC trade union body this week urged employers not to overreact by banning Facebook in the workplace but Spencer Steel, IT manager at IT recruitment job Web site Informatiq Consulting, said his company was forced to put restrictions in place...

3 September 2007, 9:16

Photos: Breaking open R2-D2

News Right under R2's dome is the voice-recognition module, and the centre of his body contains the speaker for sound effects. Only two screws hold his head to his body, and they come out easily. Unscrewing the four screws that join the housing to the...

Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body

2 January 2008, 9:33