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For those of us who seldom show interest in Proton collisions at this time of the year, the coming red-button day at the CERN might have escaped our attention. The fact that a circular tunnel 27 kilometres long under the Swiss / French border will be used this summer to recreate Big Bang conditions pulling […]

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Numbered lists: top ten, top fifty, 5 best ways to… 10 things you should know about… the list, like most lists - goes on.
Lists are a firm favourite on the Net, as a regular glance at the Digg home page will tell you. What gives us an idea of just how popular some lists are […]

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As the French go to the polls today for the first round of the Presidential elections, certain French bloggeurs are preparing to step out side of the law by publishing the names of both candidates through to the second round on the 6th of May, before 8:00 pm in France when the early exit polls […]

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A British report made public recently shows a clear need for concern over Internet security issues in the UK, while another report seems to give credibility to the bloggers shouting ‘timber’ in the debate - digital publishing versus dead wood.
The first is a UK government-backed survey that found 12 percent of adult Internet users fell […]

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This week at the Paris ‘Salon du Livre’ book trade show, Jacques Chirac finally inaugurated Europeana, a prototype of the French effort towards the long time coming, European Digital Library (ELD).

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FireFox’s progression marches steadily on in the Euopean ‘Browser wars‘. The open source underdog has been chewing out lumps of the market from under IE7’s feet for a while and it looks set to continue. A survey carried out between the 5th & 11th of March has shown that FireFox has overtaken IE7 in […]

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France24 - the round the clock TV & Internet news network touted as the “French CNN” - online since December has released figures claiming 3 million visits were made to their website during the last 3 weeks of 2006. Announcing the numbers, Alain de Pouzilhac, France 24’s chairman, said “I’m not happy with those figures, […]

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From the Iron curtain to a Net one. Estonia maybe the smallest of the three Baltic States and one of the smallest countries in the EU, but this hasn’t hampered them in writing another chapter for the Internet world record books.

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