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UK Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds

August 26, 2008 08:59

If that title hasn’t already got you excited, I don’t know what will. I have done some lists like these before but felt it was time to do a bigger one, based on all the bodies listed as “Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies”...

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Google: We’ll only support 2 most recent browser releases (IE,Safari,Firefox, Chrome) from 1 August.

July 06, 2011 09:36

This is a problem I only became aware of when I got access to Google+, and is one that it potentially about to force me into using yahoo/hotmail as my default mail client and god forbid, Outlook for managing my rss feeds. What am I talking about? I’m talking about Google’s announcement...

ECJ rules on Library Case

July 01, 2011 09:05

Not very often that the European Court of Justice talks about Libraries, but it did this week. The Court had been asked to rule on the interpretation of the concept of ‘remuneration’ paid to copyright holders in respect of public lending, as set out in Article 5(1) of Council Directive 92/100/EEC...

Virgin’s call for ASA to put stop to misleading broadband ads works - with its own ad

June 29, 2011 08:39

Oh, you have to laugh. Yes, if you want to look really stupid to the industry include test in your ad telling Ofcom to crack down on misleading advertising, and then create an ad that is potentially misleading on just about every level. Brilliant. The Advertising Standard’s Authority (ASA)...

Ofcom fines adult chat service licensee

June 24, 2011 13:27

Back In January, I blogged a prediction that Satellite Entertainment Limited SEL would have their UK broadcasting licences revoked (by Ofcom) by June. It seems Ofcom and SEL have proved me wrong. Today, Ofcom fined SEL a total of £90,000 for code breaches in respect of its Essex Babes, Northern...

02: Customer champion in hacking scandal?

June 21, 2011 11:39

Last week , Ms Julie Steele, Head of Fraud, Risk and Security, Vodafone UK, Mr Adrian Gorham, Group Head of Fraud, Security and Business Continuity, Telefonica O2, and Mr James Blendis, Vice President Legal, Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile UK) appeared in front of the Home Affairs...

Second centipede too much for BBFC

June 08, 2011 16:26

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) had banned the DVD The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) from sale in the UK, refusing to classify the film due the ‘ unacceptable content runs throughout the work’. The film is a sequel to film The Human Centipede (First Sequence),...

Publications - A Missing link in LinkedIn

June 08, 2011 11:21

I like LinkedIn. The business social network is a useful tool and a good window to advertise your own profile to prospective employers, people in the media who may be looking for an expert in a field, and people just needing basic bio information. You profile can be as limited or a broad [...]I...

The Emperor’s New Clothes - Putting the ‘N’ into Cuts

June 06, 2011 16:23

Madame Swempski: I don’t like this innuendo. Groucho: That’s what I always say: love flies out the door when money comes innuendo. [Marx Bros – Monkey Business] A glance at many of the UK’s newspapers today might lead you to believe that the broadcaster Sandi Toksvig uttered the...

Bailey Report

June 06, 2011 14:30

Reg Bailey has published his report of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood. These are the four sections that interested me the most from a Media and communications stand-point. Ensuring the content of pre-watershed television programming better meets parents’ expectations. There...