Lloyds TSB Visa Debit Cards For Kids Used to Buy Pr0n, Fags, Booze etc

Lloyds TSB Visa Debit Cards For Kids Used to Buy Pr0n, Fags, Booze etcThe UK bank, Lloyds TSB, have kicked up a fuss with their decision to give children as young as eleven years old VISA debit cards – without telling their parents.

While the company is happily dishing out Visa debit cards to kids, furious parents are concerned that their little loved ones will use the cards to go shopping in the murky, dark areas of the Internet.

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Microsoft Stops Selling XP To Major Retailers

Microsoft Stops Selling XP To Major RetailersMicrosoft is set to stop selling its long-serving Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers from today, with the company shunting all new customers on to its newer Vista operating system.

The news hasn’t gone down well with a sizeable slice of Windows users who really don’t fancy being forced into using the resource-hogging, eye candy treats of XP’s successor, but despite Internet campaigns, petitions and exhortations to keep XP soldiering on, Microsoft looks hell bent on retiring its venerable operating system.

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Russian Spam: Come on Google, Sort It Out

Russian Spam: Come on Google, Sort It OutWe’re getting more and more Russian spam. A hideous amount of it. For example, we had 10 of them getting through the gmail filter in less than an hour today.

We say spam, because we assume it’s spam as we didn’t ask for it to be sent to us, but mostly because we can’t read Cyrillic, so we’ve got no idea what it’s all about!

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Digital Tick TV Scheme “A Mystery”: MPs

Digital Tick TV Scheme With the 2012 date of switch off of UK analogue TV drawing ever closer, British MPs have been hearing about the current levels of adoption of Digital TV.

The UK Parliament Public Accounts Committee heard that many TVs that were still being bought, were not Digital ready, with those purchases, totaling millions of pounds, arguably being wasted. Continue reading Digital Tick TV Scheme “A Mystery”: MPs

4cast Weather App For Palm OS (90%)

4cast Weather App For Palm OS (90%)Us Brits are well known for our obsession with the weather, and for those of us who like to know what’s going on in the Cumulonimbus and Cirrocumulus departments at any given point of the day, the 4Cast mobile weather app for the Palm platform is one of the very best we’ve seen.

Able to download the latest Yahoo weather updates via hotsync, Bluetooth or wireless download, 4cast makes it easy to add your own list of city forecasts which can be updated individually or all at once. Continue reading 4cast Weather App For Palm OS (90%)