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Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders.
[10 Apr 2008]
News Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their email address to be passed on to social networking websites to stop them using the sites. In a statement, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We are...
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment It disturbs me that I might consider excluding certain people from consideration because of sex, race or age. With spring and recession in the air, a CEO's fancy turns to pruning costs - and for the Naked CIO's department that means job cuts.
[03 Mar 2008]
News Digital Blunders 2: Text pain and sex on the brain silicon.com's classic Digital Blunders series highlighted some of the tech howlers and tales of woe that can all too easily result from failing to engage your brain before sending an email or using...
[11 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Quick recap: Mac guy is young, hip and very pleased both with himself and his purchases; PC guy is dull, flabby and obsessed with spreadsheets and very likely to be unsuccessful with members of the opposite sex.
[01 Feb 2008]
News One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor.
[24 Sep 2007]
Round-Up In a similar manner to another figment of the imagination - Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw - FSJ has been churning out all manner of Apple-eyed musings on men ("He's a judge. If you end up taking things further with your date - if you think you...
[10 Aug 2007]
News This is a goldmine of data for the bad guy community - the bad guys now have the name, age, sex, geography, likes, family member's names. Security experts are warning of a drastic rise in personalised phishing campaigns, with social networking at...
[05 Jul 2007]
Comment Many visitors to virtual words go there because they want to do things they can't do in the real world - like be a 50-foot giant, try on the body of the opposite sex or fly around press conferences. Looking at someone's digital personality - made...
[19 Jun 2007]
News UK counties, for example, whose names end in 'sex', such as Essex and Sussex, experienced serious problems in the early days of spam filtering when crude Bayesian filtering detected that word. Voluntary Services Overseas, the global charity, has...
[11 Jun 2007]
News One of the items participants were instructed to buy was a sex toy, something they might be inclined to keep private. Would you pay a little more for that book you bought online if it meant lowering your chances of being hassled by marketers...
[08 Jun 2007]
News Drugs. Prostitution. Guns. And now essay writing services: all items Google will refuse to carry advertising for. The search giant confirmed to silicon.com it will not carry any advertising for companies offering dissertation or essay writing...
[23 May 2007]
Comment Written on BA2192 flying Dallas Fort Worth to London Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via my home wi-fi connection the next day Mobile phone users never cease to amaze, frustrate and entertain me.
[27 Feb 2007]
Round-Up In this context does it mean discriminating against 'gender' or 'sex' (in the 'put your trousers back on, that was great' sense of the word)? However, employers who refuse a job applicant, or discipline or transfer an existing employee who has...
[16 Feb 2007]
News The female flight from IT may not be a question of sex discrimination but more about poor working conditions, say silicon.com readers, as the IT workers suffer from a lack of flexible working schemes and the threat of losing their jobs dues to...
[23 Jan 2007]
News The attorney general suggested "reasonable" data retention is necessary to help investigators of online sex crimes, and members of Congress and state attorneys general voiced support for legislation mandating the practice.
[19 Jan 2007]
Comment The favourite phone search term is a mirror of its internet equivalent apparently - people are looking for sex. In between running to catch up with the great and the good of telecoms, I've been hunkering down with my laptop wherever I can.
[06 Dec 2006]
News Patients will soon be able to book appointments at London's Royal Free Hospital 24 hours a day via text message. The genito-urinary medicine (GUM) and sexual health clinics are to run a four-week pilot of the scheme through January.
[30 Nov 2006]
News Erotic adult entertainment is big business - sex sells! Like the internet before it, it looks like mobile's content explosion will be kicked off by porn. Adult content on mobile devices will be worth $3.3bn by 2011, up from $1.4bn this year...
[28 Nov 2006]
Round-Up Now, if we're seeking a perfect point of balance between the use of high-tech gadgets and 'whip 'em off now, love' sex-appeal there is really only one person who even comes close. The Round-Up asks because research from Sheffield Hallam University...
[17 Nov 2006]
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