Proposals for bilingual juries have been rejected on the basis the idea conflicts with the principle of random selection.

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Peter Chapman, who lured 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall with a fake internet profile, had history of sex offences A serial sex offender was today sentenced to life in prison after he admitted kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenager whom he ensnared using a fake profile on Facebook. Peter Chapman was told he must serve at least 35 years in prison by judge Peter Fox today, following the killing of …

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Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer’s day. Or a solar-powered dress that can charge your MP3 player’ This is not science fiction — this is cotton in 2010.

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Why are we asking this now’

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It took quite some efforts to get little Favour Nwaiwu, an eight year old primary four pupil of Royal Family Academy, Abuja, to pose for a good photo shot. She is not a photo freak and by no inclination into any liking for fashion shows.

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The family of a teenager raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender questions how closely he was monitored by police.

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(One) word from the mountaintop Steve Jobs has spoken: Apple’s ” magical and revolutionary ” iPad will not allow iPhone-to-iPad 3G tethering.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

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Just released is a Google Earth tour by the Pew Environment Group to introduce the 2010 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation that guides you through underwater ecosystems, coral reefs, and shores across the globe as it explains the research goals of five new Fellows who will be exploring our seas over the next three years in an effort to learn how to save them.

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Angelica Mari, Computing , Monday 8 March 2010 at 17:19:00 1) IT could hold the key to the future of publishing 2) Case Study: The Guardian harnesses social and mobile apps 3) How publishers are reacting to the iPad 1) IT could hold the key to the future of publishing Changing patterns of content consumption and falling print advertising revenue are prompting publishers to focus on IT innovation …

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Convicted sex offender Peter Chapman was jailed for life today after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of a teenager he ensnared on a social networking site.

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Tim Buckley Owen, Information World Review , Monday 8 March 2010 at 14:54:00 Click-Use, the licence that for the last decade has authorised anyone to reuse government and Parliamentary information, is to be phased out by May. It will be replaced by a Creative Commons type licence, devised by the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), which is already used on data.gov.uk . Jo Ellis of OPSI …

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allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience

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The Queen warns that businesses in developing nations are missing out because the internet is an “unaffordable option” in many areas.

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As Microsoft complies with new European rules to offer a choice of browsers to Windows users, smaller browsers are getting a boost.

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Members of MIT’s Bits and Atoms lab taught locals in Jalalabad, Afghanistan how to transform bits of trash into stuff they could use to create a high speed wireless network for the area.

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Ditto ‘elite’ Jobsian beta testers Mozilla has pushed out a Firefox developer preview that runs Adobe Flash and other plug-ins as a separate process, hoping to prevent crashing plug-ins from crashing the browser proper.… What is your recession sales strategy’

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As well as bringing you the latest weather across TV and radio. BBC Newsline is now posting regular updates on microblogging site Twitter.

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Recent emergency situations that have arisen in the UK, including severe flooding, extreme weather, and even terrorist attacks have highlighted repeatedly just how vulnerable some sections of society can be in such circumstances. UK researchers suggest that wireless technology could hold the key to remedying this problem.

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SOME businessmen find it difficult to adjust to retirement. Not so Roy McLennan. Since he stepped down from the business he co-founded almost 30 years ago, Highland Office Equipment (HOE), life has been good, he insists.

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Heat is often the enemy of computing and data storage, but a new experiment shows it could help reduce the amount of power needed to store data in magnetic memory.

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A Missouri Dad believes his daughter’s First Amendment rights were violated for being punished for comments she posted about a fellow female classmate, NBCactionnews.com reported.

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Minna — Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger, yesterday said the government had concluded plans to deploy 100 V-sat units across the state in its bid to develop the Information Communication Technology, ICT, sector.

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Thursday 4 March 2010 at 14:30:00 Privacy Dividend report explains how to put a value on personal information The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a new report designed to encourage organisations to prioritise data protection best practice. Launched at a Data Protection Officer conference in Manchester yesterday, the Privacy Dividend report (PDF …

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This year I managed to see 49 of the 65 films that were entered in the foreign language category for the Academy Awards, including all…

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Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Thursday 4 March 2010 at 12:56:00 Gartner predicts growth of 97 per cent in 2010 Gartner has heralded a significant shift in the way people interact with their phones, predicting that sales of touch-screen mobile devices will grow by 96.8 per cent this year to hit 362.7 million. The analyst firm expects touch-screen devices to account for 58 per cent of all mobile device …

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David Ford apologises to the families of Bloody Sunday victims after being criticised for calling the Saville Inquiry “pointless”.

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The icon on my iPod Touch shows that I’m connected to my home wireless network, but I can’t open Web pages or do e-mail. What do I do’

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Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 16:39:00 Vendor bets big on 3D take-up this year HANNOVER: MSI is touting a range of touch-screen devices and 3D technology at CeBIT this year, as the firm predicts rapid take up of the technologies by the end of 2010. The company has showcased several new products on its stand at the show, including an all-in-one HD 3D PC that it said should be …

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Lagos — The outgoing Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe, has leaked his success strategies during his 10 years reign as NCC’s frontline officer.

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Twitter is preparing a new advertising model that will serve adverts in peoples’ feeds and try to supplant third-party services such as Tweetdeck, according to reports. A story at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD says that “Ads will be tied to Twitter searches, in the same way that Google’s original ads were. So a search for, say, “laptop,” may generate an ad for Dell. The ads will only show …

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If I Can Dream to use live streaming, video uploads, myspace auditions, Twitter and blogging It seems all too familiar: five young people move into a house together in a series that follows them as they shoot for stardom in Hollywood. But while If I Can Dream, the new show from the pop and TV impresario Simon Fuller, may sound like a cross between Big Brother, The Real World and Pop Idol, it’s …

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In the lawsuit, Apple said HTC phones running Android violate 20 of its patents, including those relating to the iPhone’s ability to recognize the touch of multiple fingers on its screen at once.

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The very positive stride recorded in the global development of Information Communications Technology has made human existence easier than could have been imagined.

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An application called Buxter allows Facebook friends to share money with each other for small value transactions.

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The government will lift part of the veil on its strategy for protecting the nation’s public and private computer systems.

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Down the hatch, SpiderMonkey Mozilla is brewing a new extension to the Firefox JavaScript engine, hoping to fix a flaw in its setup that occasionally sends the open source browser back to 2007.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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A senior British Airways cabin crew member sued the airline for libel damages today over a “malicious” claim that he admitted stealing 12 miniatures of whisky.

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Lagos — Boss of New Horizon, the biggest computer training firm in the world, Mr. Tim Akano, yesterday commended the giant strides of Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, in Information and Commmunication Technology (ICT) in the state.

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Microsoft’s new mobile phone software, coming at the end of this year, offers “tiles” instead of icons, and has “hubs” for similarly themed functions.

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An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter – but only leads to identity theft and malware Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “this you”” or “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” and other sex-related “direct” messages. Among those who fell victim …

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A paedophile was arrested after he put child porn on his iPod – and then sold it to Cash Converters.

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in its first major change-of-venue case in decades.

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Microsoft has broken its silence on the European Commission inquiry into Google after criticisms that the US giant was orchestrating a campaign against the company founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

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AMERICAN soldiers were yesterday told they can “tweet” if they want to.

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From the moment she wakes in inner-west Sydney, Danielle Warby is online.

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Google on Saturday activated an online “person finder” tool to help relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile.Google on Saturday activated an online “person finder” tool to help relatives and friends to find loved ones following the huge earthquake in Chile.

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Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.

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VMs gets cozy with Apple Xserve Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.… What is your recession sales strategy’

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I have 40 or so books on my Amazon Kindle – among them are: “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It” by Ken Auletta; Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals”; “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin; and David Price’s “The Pixar Touch.”

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Conan O’Brien, the unemployed former host of “The Tonight Show,” has a fervent online fan base. Now he is reaching out to his supporters.

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