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29 May 2009
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With more people accessing websites like Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and Twitter, one expert has suggested the world could be seen as getting smaller when it comes to travel.
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Neal's Yard Remedies' decision not to answer questions from online critics is a bad PR strategy, according to Max Clifford
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About three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps) according to research commissioned by the BBC.
The government has promised to provide all homes in the UK with speeds of at least 2Mbps by 2012.
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US media giant Time Warner says its board has approved plans to spin off its AOL internet division as a separate company by the end of this year.
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Millions of people are failing to relax on holiday because they cannot stop updating social networking sites.
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A recent story by the BBC has highlighted the possible hazards of using social networking sites, particularly during work hours. The article, published on the 22 May, discussed the recent case where a teacher in the area of Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site. Many of the posts featured information about her classes and students and were posted during school hours.
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Tory leader David Cameron would welcome some key technological changes to the way that Parliament makes its business available to the public.
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Andy Pipes at Channel 4 has published some of the results of in-depth research carried out for the Channel into how young people relate to the web, gaming, the telly and each other. It's got some insights that would dispel some of the myth mongering that will take place in this summer's education conference circuit.
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According to new data from Inside Facebook, users over the age of 55 haven’t been as actively using Facebook over the past two months after triple digit growth in that demographic earlier this year. The report has resulted in speculation that while older people are trying Facebook, they’re not sticking around
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It is already being dubbed "Twittergate". The internet communication craze that has swept the world has caused a political furore in Germany, where parliamentary elders will today launch a probe into twittering MPs who broke decades of tradition and leaked news of the president's re-election.
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