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ICT in the news - w/c 8th December 2008

US shuts down 'scareware' sellers

The US government has moved to shut down sellers of fake security software.

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IWF backs down on Wiki censorship

The online watchdog, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), has withdrawn its objection to a Wikipedia page that contained an image of a naked girl.

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Net firms rebuff filtering plan

Australian government plans to filter net use have been rebuffed by local internet service providers (ISPs).

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Spore at top of the piracy charts

Will Wright's evolutionary epic video game - Spore - has been named the most pirated PC game of 2008, according to the TorrentFreak weblog.

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Cyber crime attack from the East

Reporter Spencer Kelly found out why hacking is big business in Russia and other countries in the East.

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Google tells us what we look for

What do Sarah Palin, Facebook and Euro 2008 have in common? They are all on the list of the top 10 fastest-rising queries on Google during 2008.

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City gets 'crime-detecting' CCTV

Anti-social behaviour has become a familiar sight in some towns and cities across the country. Now there's a new weapon in the fight against it called Smart CCTV.

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BBC's iPlayer 'could be shared'

The BBC could share its iPlayer technology with the likes of ITV and Channel 4, director general Mark Thompson has said.

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PlayStation Home opens its doors

Sony's long awaited next-gen social networking site for PlayStation users goes into open beta today.

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Russian hopes to cash in on ;-)

A series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages - known as an emoticon - has been trademarked in Russia, says a local businessman.

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Don't be 404, know the tech slang

A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them.

For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "clueless".

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