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Virgin Media 50 Mbps Broadband Speeds Up Monday, December 15th, 2008 - 14:24:16 - Ehud Rattner Virgin Media is widely expected to unveil a 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) domestic broadband service. It is the first of Britain's ISPs to roll out a... read more

Broadband Users Reach Their Limit Monday, October 27th, 2008 - 14:55:21 - Ehud Rattner One million UK consumers have exceeded or come close to exceeding their broadband usage limit, research from consumer group uSwitch has found... read more

Giant Database Plan 'Orwellian' Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - 10:06:11 - Ehud Rattner Proposals for a central database of all mobile phone and internet traffic have been condemned as "Orwellian". UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the... read more

Unsafe Chargers 'Flooding' the UK Sunday, July 20th, 2008 - 16:29:31 - Ehud Rattner Hundreds of thousands of unsafe chargers for mobile phones, games consoles and music devices could have made their way into the UK. Trading standards... read more

Modern Computer Turns 60 Saturday, June 21st, 2008 - 20:27:50 - Iddo Genuth Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester. The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the... read more

BBC: UK Towns Triumph in Broadband Tests Thursday, June 5th, 2008 - 10:16:02 - Ehud Rattner London's broadband users can go online at average speeds nearly twice those in Wales and Northern Ireland, a survey for BBC News suggests... read more

UK Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - 10:06:47 - Ehud Rattner The Greater Manchester Police force is looking for friends -- on Facebook. It has created a Facebook application to collect leads for investigations... read more

Approval for Mobiles on Aircraft Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 - 15:09:49 - Sarah Gingichashvili The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace has been given approval by UK regulator Ofcom. It has issued plans that will allow airlines... read more

Breast Cancer Treatments: Fewer But Bigger Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 - 12:26:09 - Ehud Rattner A lower total dose of radiotherapy, delivered in fewer, larger treatments has been shown to be as effective as the international standard of a higher... read more

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