Marion Cotillard, a French actress, gasped in pain after Frédéric Mitterrand, the Culture Minister, accidentally stuck a pin in her chest as he awarded her the Order of Arts and Letters.

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Language is forever changing — and forms such as tweets and text messages are no less valid than any textbook version, says the linguist David Crystal, whose latest book encourages children to engage with the possibilities of their lingua franca.

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The 2010 Census, which is hitting mailboxes all across America this month, may well surprise you with its findings — specifically how increasingly diverse our…

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Chinese authorities warned major partners of Google’s China-based search engine that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not, an industry expert with knowledge of the notice said.

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Nintendo Wii consoles could help cut the number of elderly people suffering falls each year and save the NHS £1 billion, according to researchers.

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Watch the latest energy news live through our curated Twitter lists. These tweets span many perspectives and include prominent energy voices, organizations, and news outlets.

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When Baroness Ashton said she could speak for Europe with one voice, she had not reckoned on the fall-out of the Sarkozy affair. The President of France arrives in Britain to discuss the apocalyptic global financial crisis with the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The two statesmen speak to the international press. The question asked of Sarkozy is whether his wife, Carla, is sleeping with a …

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Our digital doctor solves your technical troubles

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A government minister responded to a statement from Google’s chief executive that “something will happen soon” in a standoff over Internet censorship.

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DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. Besides burning video files to DVD it also allows you to create individually designed DVD menus. It is Open-source Software and is completely free.

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Microsoft has lost a second appeal in a case that will see it pay $240m (£160m) in damages to software firm i4i.

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Upgrade now, thankyouplease Mozilla has begun shepherding Firefox fans through the browser door marked 3.6, in a move to encourage users to upgrade to the open source outfit’s latest surfing tool.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

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A key member of Congress says federal workers should be paid more for using their bilingual skills at work, and he’s introduced a bill to boost those folks’ pay by 5 percent. Rep. Michael M. Honda, California Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said those bilingual workers deserve to be rewarded for their extra skills – something the government doesn’t …

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After Yahoo! breach ‘paralyzed’ Veep campaign Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will testify in person against the college student accused of breaching her Yahoo mail account and leaking some of its contents online, according to published reports.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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STAMFORD — As part of the mayor’s budget cuts, the number of Spanish-speaking employees in the Town Clerk’s Office is set to be reduced by half, from two employees to one, according to city officials.

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CPU hog Adobe v HTML5 When Steve Jobs badmouthed Adobe Flash to The Wall Street Journal , he said it was buggy, littered with security holes, and a “CPU hog.” It’s hard to argue with the first two, but a new study claims the Apple cult leader was wrong about the hog bit.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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A ferret with hundreds of internet “friends” is one of eight to have escaped from a network of hutches.

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While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that has not stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses.

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The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

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Merseyside Police is criticised for not referring earlier its handling of the case of a known sex offender who killed a teenager.

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SDK lands with a bump Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package – Jetpack – by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.… What is your recession sales strategy’

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CALEY Thistle moved to within six points of league leaders Dundee thanks to a treble from Adam Rooney.

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

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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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Despite widespread deployment, nearly a third of Americans have not embraced broadband, said an attendee at the Digital Inclusion Summit, an event co-hosted by the Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation.

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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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