bloglog » Tuesday 08 July 2008
08 July 2008
dwp slammed for fraud computing failure
08-07-08
10:00
GMTMPs blame slow improvements
The Department for Work and Pensions has failed to measure benefit fraud properly because of its slowness to improve IT.?
mayor boris to cover porsche costs in co2 tax brouhaha
08-07-08
10:00
GMT£25 Greengestion charge deep-sixed
London's new mayor, the former knockabout media rascal and MP Boris Johnson, has ended the city government's legal dispute with German luxmobile firm Porsche. Johnson has scrapped plans set by his predecessor Red Green Ken Livingstone for hefty £25 daily charges on all higher-CO2 cars entering the capital, and agreed to repay the motor manufacturer's £400k legal fees relating to a planned judicial challenge agai
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malware infects merriam-webster
08-07-08
10:00
GMTFanboys drop dirty bomb on collegiate dictionary
Worshippers at the altar of Jobs rejoice: Merriam-Webster's latest edition of its Collegiate Dictionary has embraced fanboys among more than 100 new entries gracing its updated pages.?
ips ditches e-passport system
08-07-08
10:00
GMTWrites off £10.8m
The Identity and Passport Service has written off £10.8m in dropping a scheme for electronic passport applications.?
bbfc says pegi is just "a couple of blokes"
08-07-08
10:00
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truecrypt 6.0 released
08-07-08
09:59
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ruphus13 writes "While most of the US was celebrating Independence Day, the true fellow geeks over at TrueCrypt released version 6.0 of TrueCrypt over the long weekend. The new version touts two major upgrades. 'First, TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating s
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zimbabwe talks to resume under mbeki mediation: government
08-07-08
09:59
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HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and Zimbabwe's opposition are to resume talks to resolve the country's political crisis, state media reported on Tuesday.
iran to "hit tel aviv, u.s. ships" if attacked
08-07-08
09:59
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
mcconaughey's girlfriend has baby boy
08-07-08
09:59
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Matthew McConaughey's Brazilian girlfriend has given birth to a boy, People magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
the birthday party is finally over for lindsay
08-07-08
09:58
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sugar land teen katie armiger on verge of stardom
08-07-08
09:57
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Katie Armiger turned 17 last month, which means she probably should be gabbing about prom dresses and college plans. But music is her focus.
verizon reportedly drops loren feldman over technigga
08-07-08
09:49
GMTLoren Feldman is embroiled again in the middle of a controversy, and this time it doesn’t have anything to do with puppets. Close to a year ago, Loren produced a series of videos under his 1938 Media banner entitled TechNigga, in which he attempted to bring to light the lack of black people in the [...]
the importance of being linked
08-07-08
09:49
GMTAfter examining his biggest traffic sources, Louis Gray has noticed that links from blogs simply aren’t that important any more. I agree with his conclusions, although I don’t think that the data set he uses really proves his point.
The fact is, there are links and there are links. A fleeting reference to a blog [...]
eu: i won't be bullied by sarkozy, says mandelson
08-07-08
09:48
GMTPeter Mandelson risked reigniting his public row with Nicolas Sarkozy today when he warned that he would not be bullied by the French president
russia supported alexander litvinenko's murder, says bbc report
08-07-08
09:48
GMTThe Russian state supported the murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it was reported last night
simon mann case: the princess, the king and the lord
08-07-08
09:48
GMTThe ramifications of Simon Mann's attempt to launch a coup in Equatorial Guinea are getting more exotic by the day, reports David Pallister
nickelback sign live nation deal
08-07-08
09:47
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Canadian band Nickelback become the latest act to sign with concert promoter Live Nation. 




