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RSS mobile banQwerty vs touch, WFH, iPhone 2.0, Segway madness
News Calls to lift UK Segway ban And a story that suggests the silly season has arrived early, after peers in the House of Lords called for a ban on Segways being used on roads and pavements to be lifted - and demonstrated how safe the mode of transport... [30 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Also, the government's latest surveillance plans have had readers up in arms… and finally the recent calls by Lords to lift the Segway ban in Britain has divided readers… Calls to lift UK Segway ban Let them do it - the people that they need... [22 May 2008]
Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users
News More than half of respondents said they believe inconsiderate use of mobiles in public should be punished - with the most popular option being a 12-month ban on using their phone in public. Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud... [09 May 2008]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News The government ban on the movement of encrypted data triggered a performance slump at the UK's driving safety agency and forced it to temporarily revert from electronic to paper-based processes. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) saw... [04 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…
Comment Simple: Ban all paperclips! Just to be sure, also ban wire.and laptops. Perhaps the technology should be referred to as something other than a mobile phone. Internet on mobile - rubbish. The next killer app on mobile, to gain proper share, is sat-nav. [06 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment Schools, colleges and universities advise against - or even ban - the use of wi-fi, and services are closed down as a potential health risk. In the mean time I'm off to install my own mobile base station so I can increase the power level to my... [04 Mar 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on the big... [28 Feb 2008]
Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
News He said nearly all MoJ laptops are now being encrypted in the wake of the Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted data imposed following the Ministry of Defence data loss last month that resulted from a stolen laptop. [19 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment The ruling stated the UK IPO was wrong to blanket-ban computer programs and said if the method was patentable, then the program itself should be patentable too. In each of the five inventions considered - Software 2000 and laser printing, Astron... [13 Feb 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News A spokesman for the Cabinet Office said: "The ban applies to any mobile device with storage capacity that contains personal data. Government BlackBerrys and PDAs have been grounded by the Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted personal... [04 Feb 2008]
Motorists told: Switch off mobiles when switching on ignition
News The government is urging drivers to switch off their mobile phones before setting off on a journey to cut down the number of motorists still flouting the law by using a mobile while behind the wheel. Road safety minister Jim Fitzpatrick launched... [01 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25 million people whose records it lost on two CDs and the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 600,000 records prompted a ban on all... [30 Jan 2008]
US plane security turns on batteries
News New rules from the US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) that took effect in the US on 1 January ban travellers from carrying loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. Most batteries for mobile phones and laptops meet this requirement. [04 Jan 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. [11 Dec 2007]
Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban
News The ban on using a mobile phone when driving came into force in December 2003 and the latest Ministry of Justice motoring offence figures show 126,768 fixed penalty notices were issued by police in England and Wales in 2005 - up 52,800 on the year... [04 Dec 2007]
