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White Paper The radio boom in the 1920s led to a new genre of advertising, despite early pressure to ban direct advertising from the radio airwaves. Throughout the history of mass media, technology and the advertising industry have... [30 May 2009]
2008: The year in mobile
News BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban 2008 was a year of change in the mobile sphere - not least for the iPhone which switched from being exclusively a shiny consumer toy to a business-friendly... [30 Dec 2008]
Qwerty 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 -... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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.... [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... [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... [04 Jan 2008]
