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Mobiles on the moon? NASA, Brits dial up a plan

Mobiles on the moon? NASA, Brits dial up a planActually there is escaping the ringtoneIn space... no one can hear you scream

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Brits, NASA, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

iPhone's price tag curbs Brits' interest

iPhone's price tag curbs Brits' interestSo, let's seeApple says that they want to get 1% of the mobile phone market. About 2% of the people in the survey say they are considering the iPhone.But, that's bad news because 76% of the people say they'll never buy one.Um, OK. I guess...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Brits

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

Brits try text-messaging parents of truants

Brits try text-messaging parents of truantsCool, now if we could just auto-deduct the fine from their account...NT

Tags: Brits

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

Most popular sites among 40-something Brits: Premium TV, Abbey National, Genes Reunited

Most popular sites among 40-something Brits: Premium TV, Abbey National, Genes ReunitedAnother ZDNet head scratcherI've got to wonder what makes ZDNet believe that this stat is worth posting for American visitors?Even more curious, is the fact that if you visit www.zdnet.co.uk there is no display of this item on the...

Tags: Blogging, Brits, Genes Reunited, Premium TV, American Visitor

Discussion threads 2006-03-15

Net outage hits Brits

Net outage hits Britsyep, happened to meWith Karoo up here and hull and I was major peeved so find my internet go off! I thought it was another Karoo problem as my internet has been down more than it has been up since I got it in September. =(I'm...

Tags: INTERNET, Manufacturing, Karoo, Brits

Discussion threads 2005-12-01

U.K. mobile service strained after explosions

U.K. mobile service strained after explosionsI know of several using TeamSpeak...That's how they reached friends and family.same thing happened on 911.I feel sorry for the Brits. This is a complete tragedy.I'm sure there are some terrorist apologist here though.yea or voip servicesGood stuff and great a backup when people hog...

Tags: Corporate insurance, Homeland security, Business security, VOIP, Brits, mobile

Discussion threads 2005-07-07

10,000 Brits under 30 went bankrupt in Q1 2005

PricewaterhouseCoopers said personal bankruptcies among the Brits under 30 years old accounted for 15% of all failures in 2003-2004. That figure was almost double that of 2001-2002 as more people chose bankruptcy as a way of eliminating their debts. More than 10,000 people went bankrupt in Q1 2005, the highest...

Tags: Q1 2005, Brits

Blog posts 2005-06-11

France puts on business-friendly face

France puts on business-friendly faceThe face looks like a donut NTntFrance from an Anglo-Saxon point of viewIt's quite obvious that France has things in place that Anglo-Saxons read Americans and Brits find hard to cope with from a principal point of view.But all systems have their issues, don't they? ...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Brits, JUST $140, quality of life

Discussion threads 2005-05-24

Senators don't want 1898 tax to hit Net

Senators don't want 1898 tax to hit NetNever seen a tax they didn't likeSo why not do away with the 1898 tax completely so the threat does not exist? I know thw reason do you?Our government just can't stand no taxing the internet.It seems to go against their very...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, U.S. Congress, Brits, Nothing, tax, Internal Revenue Service

Discussion threads 2005-04-11

Brits hit by surge in phone-charge Net fraud

Brits hit by surge in phone-charge Net fraudOne good reason not use dial upNo problem with ADSL or Cable.Rogue Dialers bypassing AVOur PC here has Norton AV, AdAware, and Spybot, all up-to-the-minute updated, and Windows is fully and automatically patched by Microsoft. PC was swept this weekend. I...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Litigation, Network technology, Brits, defence

Discussion threads 2004-06-23

Additional Resources

Texting? Pull Over ...

Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...

Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Texting? Pull Over ...

So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash. That's bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the...

Tags: Train, California, U.K., Wreck, Bicyclists, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Marketing, Manufacturing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-02

How many techs does it take to change a lightbulb?

How many techs does it take to change a lightbulb?no complainningthat waste energy, u are causing the carbon foot print to grow:)RE: How many techs does it take to change a lightbulb?You Americans complain about us taking your jobs, but it's clear that Indians work harder, are better educated, work...

Tags: Desktops, lightbulb

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Would you abort George Clooney

Would you abort George ClooneyWowNot willing to take on controversial topics, are you? Good luck with this one. :)Here's my two cents: Genetic research and the possibility of using it to "purify" the gene pool using whatever criteria can be justified reminds me of an episode of the old Muppet...

Tags: George Clooney, gene

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

It's official: my broadband nightmare is over

It's official: my broadband nightmare is overGoodbye to Mr. Angry ;-)Glad to see you back online Z (I can confirm that he has indeed been Mr. Angry ).Glad too that you have gone with O2. I see that they have just announced a joint fixed-line and mobile broadband package. Hope...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, broadband nightmare, Bobby, broadband

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

What do the British really believe about global warming?

There is much doubt, confusion and belief among the British who cling to arguments not supported by science. Sound familiar? Here's the result: most Brits do NOT think human acitivity is causing global warming. And that coincides with the very informal results of our own poll among readers...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-26

UK prisoners to train for career in IT

UK prisoners to train for career in ITuhhh...what?That, without a doubt, is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.You’re taking convicted criminals, who have already been proven to have a “bendable” view on moral right and wrong, and teaching them how to commit potentially huge crimes from relative safety….or go...

Tags: Professional development, prisoner, information technology, career

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Globalization's discontents

I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...

Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF

Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...

Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-16

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15