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Free satellite TV service begins

A free satellite television and radio service from the BBC and ITV is being launched across the UK.

Freesat is available to 98% of homes, including those that are unable to receive Freeview through a TV aerial.

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Building digital lifelines

A huge quake left at least 500 people dead and thousands homeless in the Ica region, south of the capital Lima. It instantly wiped out electricity, fresh water and communication infrastructures.

But Mrs Hernandez was able to speak to her son in Spain thanks to the work of charity Telecoms Sans Frontieres.

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Women and technology

Are there enough women working in technology?

I don't have any figures to hand, but I think it's safe to say that women are woefully under-represented in the technology industries.

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MySpace lets users share data

The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.

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Pupils suspended over online game

Dozens of pupils at a North East Lincolnshire school have been suspended after downloading a game from an internet site.

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Boom times for virtual playgrounds

Research suggests that there are about 158 online games and virtual worlds in development or up and running designed specifically for children.

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Yahoo search to battle spyware

Yahoo is introducing new technology to its search engine which will warn users if they are about to click on a website that hosts viruses, spyware and spam.

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Burma's emergency telecoms delay

Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms in disaster areas have been prevented from going into cyclone-hit Burma.

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New spectrum to improve health

More radio spectrum will need to be released to cater for breakthroughs in healthcare and transport, said Ofcom. In a report focused on the future use of wireless, the regulator identified hundreds of new applications. They include wireless devices which monitor health and radio frequency ID tags on food products that allow allergy sufferers to shop more safely.

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Fake media file snares PC users

Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee. The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims.

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Victorian 'supercomputer' is reborn

The world of computing could have been very different to that of today had a machine that was designed over 150 years ago been built at the time.

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Child web safety aides launched

New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely have been launched.

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Facebook agrees child safety plan

Facebook is to add a slew of new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyber bullies.

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Torrent spy ordered to pay $110 m

File-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (£56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement.

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NASA set to join petaflop elite

Nasa is making a bid to join the elite group using supercomputers whose power is measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency aims to be running a petaflop supercomputer that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

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Pope will text young Catholics

Pope Benedict XVI will send religious text messages to thousands of young Catholics when he attends World Youth Day in Australia, organisers say.

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Bust up with the boss?

Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers via an online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty, regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime, which bosses can access when vetting potential employees.

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Google faces human rights votes

Google is facing two shareholder motions at its annual general meeting on Thursday. Both insist the company needs to do more to fight censorship and support human rights.

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Google keen on greater Yahoo ties

Google has expressed interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.

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Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering

Regulators in the US are being urged to investigate any potential online advertising and search partnership between Google and Yahoo.

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Power-hungry IT firms change focus

Vapour trails across the sky makes pollution from planes highly visible. Not so the pollution from the computer industry.

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CCTV boom failing to cut crime

Huge investment in closed-circuit TV technology has failed to cut UK crime, a senior police officer has warned

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Bournemouth homes get fast fibre

Bournemouth has been picked as the first UK town to get super-fast fibre via the sewers.

It is part of a plan from fibre firm H20 to extend its underground sewer networks from businesses to consumers.

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EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home

Giove-B, a test satellite for Europe's Galileo system, has sent its first navigation signals back to Earth.

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Climate prediction: no model for success

This week, about 150 of the world's top climate modellers have converged on Reading for a four day meeting to plan a revolution in climate prediction.

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