Packet switching is one of the crucial technologies that made the internet possible. It's 40 years since the technique was invented by a team at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Bushy Park, Middlesex, led by professor Donald Davies (pictured ...
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The logo of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom. Confidential data on 30 million German phone users could be consulted on the Internet as a result of an error until the phone company locked access, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said ...
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The touch of flippancy in Babygrrl's entry is chilling. "Oh that scar looks really great, my cuts never get so deep. Hot!" says the online note in response to a red and gory picture of a slashed wrist bleeding profusely. Tabishia's entry, logged in ...
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The New York Times reports that CBS anchor Katie Couric is getting a bump from her presence on the Internet: Katie Couric has been the most watched, most talked-about network news anchor this election season. Just not necessarily on CBS. Consider ...
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Thank heavens for the Internet; it's put the surprise back in October Surprise. Here is the latest big-picture conspiracy theory, which has been gathering strength on the blogosphere the way a hurricane feeds on Caribbean waters: It is widely ...
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Two years ago, Kanye West called himself the 'the number one human being in music', but since then he's discovered a little humility, with hip hop's most compelling protagonist humbled by the internet, of all things. He leaked his new single, a ...
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Seventy-seven per cent of savers say they will not bank abroad again after 300,000 Icesave customers faced the frightening prospect - now averted - of losing some or all of their money last week. A poll of Guardian and Observer readers on the ...
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