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		<title>Lord Carter, Digital Britain Report Author May Leave Government: UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2009/06/12/lord-carter-digital-britain-report-author-may-leave-government/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2009/06/12/lord-carter-digital-britain-report-author-may-leave-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Lord Carter off to the commercial sector following the Digital Britain Report.]]></description>
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		<title>New Scotland Yard Photographers Protest Today</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2009/02/16/new-scotland-yard-photographers-protest-today/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2009/02/16/new-scotland-yard-photographers-protest-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of concern in the UK about members of the public and journalists being restricted in where and what they can take photographs of in public places. Where previously there hasn&#8217;t been any significant limitations, there is now much concern that the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 contains a clause that allows for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Kangaroo UK VOD Blocked</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2009/02/04/project-kangaroo-uk-vod-blocked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Kangaroo, which was to offer video from a number of UK broadcasters, delivered over the Internet, has been blocked by the UK Competition Commission (CC). Kangaroo was a joint venture with the BBC through BBC Worldwide, ITV plc and Channel Four Television Corporation. The summary of the ruling &#8211; given the power of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some eBay Sellers Still Charging 17.5% VAT</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/12/04/some-ebay-sellers-still-charging-175-vat/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/12/04/some-ebay-sellers-still-charging-175-vat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about being computer-based is that you can move fast and change information quickly &#8230; right? We know these things, don&#8217;t we. This was the basis for us being really confused as to why some eBay sellers are still charging VAT at 17.5%, instead of the new 15% rate. As those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Learning: Free Computers For Children Pilot Areas Announced</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/23/next-generation-learning-free-computers-for-children-pilot-areas-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/23/next-generation-learning-free-computers-for-children-pilot-areas-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government has named the initial areas around England that will pilot their £300m push to provide computer access from home for school children around the country. Starting February 2009, 20,000 pupils from low-income families in Suffolk and in Oldham will be offered grants to pay for a computer, software to run on it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeview HD: Three New Channels For UK</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/21/freeview-hd-three-new-channels-for-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/21/freeview-hd-three-new-channels-for-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Slocombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom gives green light for new BBC, ITV and Channel Four HD channels.]]></description>
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		<title>Gary McKinnon To Be Extradited Despite Aspergers</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/13/gary-mckinnon-to-be-extradited-despite-aspergers/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/13/gary-mckinnon-to-be-extradited-despite-aspergers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon&#8216;s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long. This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon&#8217;s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£17 eBay Camera Contained Top Secret Information</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/01/17-ebay-camera-contained-top-secret-information/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/01/17-ebay-camera-contained-top-secret-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another tale of UK data loss that has to be one for the &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t make it up&#8221; files. An Englishman has bought a Nikon Coolpix camera from eBay for £17 that had lots of secret information stored on it. According to The Sun, list is considerable. a document marked “top secret” detailed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US Likely</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/28/gary-mckinnon-all-legal-routes-exhausted-extradition-to-us-likely/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/28/gary-mckinnon-all-legal-routes-exhausted-extradition-to-us-likely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We heard news from Gary McKinnon&#8217;s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary&#8217;s extradition to the US halted. The temporary prohibition of McKinnon&#8217;s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All 84,000 UK Prisoner&#8217;s Details Lost On Data Stick</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/22/all-84000-uk-prisoners-details-lost-on-data-stick/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/22/all-84000-uk-prisoners-details-lost-on-data-stick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Loss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another UK Government data loss story today. Today&#8217;s is the loss of the names, dates of birth and, in some cases, the expected prison release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in the UK. As well as this shocking amount of data, there was more held on the memory stick that it&#8217;s reported that PA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock The Net CD: UK Release 25 August</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/20/rock-the-net-cd-uk-release-25-august/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/20/rock-the-net-cd-uk-release-25-august/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indi Music Worldwide Fights For Net Neutrality. UK release of Rock The Net CD designed to bring attention to the cause. Net Neutrality We&#8217;ve been covering Net Neutrality for over two years now. We think it&#8217;s essential that the Internet is free and open. It&#8217;s vital that the speed of arrival of each data-packet that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ofcom Gives BT OK For Ebbsfleet Fibre Trial Line Rental Discounts</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/01/ofcom-gives-bt-ok-for-ebbsfleet-fibre-trial-line-rental-discounts/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/01/ofcom-gives-bt-ok-for-ebbsfleet-fibre-trial-line-rental-discounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom are altering the very grandly named, &#8220;Universal Service Condition 1,&#8221; to let BT provide discounted connections to people on their Ebbsfleet Fibre optic trial, which plans to provide network connections of up to 100Mbps. You would have thought that discounting fixed line connections would have been a pretty simple thing that doesn&#8217;t does require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H2O Networks: Fibre Though The Sewer</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/25/h2o-networks-fibre-though-the-sewer/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/25/h2o-networks-fibre-though-the-sewer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[H2O Networks, of Merseyside UK, have got an interesting idea for providing high speed Internet access to homes and businesses &#8211; by running fibre optic cables through the sewer. This apparently initially grubby idea isn&#8217;t new &#8211; we first wrote about the concept back in December 2001, when a company called CityNet was talking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>01: ITU Gives Standard For Mobile Phone Emergency Numbers</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/23/01-itu-gives-standard-for-mobile-phone-emergency-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/23/01-itu-gives-standard-for-mobile-phone-emergency-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed a global standard for storing next-of-kin information in the dialling directories of mobile phones. The idea being that if you are unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident, emergency workers will know who to get in touch with by looking through the contacts on your mobile phone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TheyWorkForYou: Now with Video!</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/02/theyworkforyou-now-with-video/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/07/02/theyworkforyou-now-with-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheyWorkForYou, the Web site that takes what is said in the UK Parliament and makes it accessible to the citizens of the Web, has added a new feature, synchronising the video broadcast with the MP&#8217;s speech. Jolly good it is too. If a debate has been timestamped &#8212; ie the changing of MP speakers synchronised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kangaroo Caught By OFT Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/06/30/kangaroo-caught-by-oft-inquiry/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/06/30/kangaroo-caught-by-oft-inquiry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear, the day before Ashley Highfield takes up the position of CEO of Project Kangaroo, the Internet-delivered TV joint venture between UK companies BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, we learn that the OFT has referred the whole shebang for further inquiry. The OFT is uncomfortable with the idea that Kangaroo, or whatever it [...]]]></description>
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