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Microsoft's Bing to sponsor The Simpsons on Channel 4

Mar 12, 2010 4:43 AM

Microsoft is to replace the Governments Change4Life initiative as the sponsor of The Simpsons on Channel 4 during weeknights.

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Observer sees big circulation drop

Mar 12, 2010 6:45 AM

The relaunch of the The Observer and its accompanying marketing campaign has come just in time, if ABC figures for February are an indication.

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Liberal Democrats unveils election slogan

Mar 12, 2010 8:30 AM

The Liberal Democrats election slogan will be "Change that works for you, building a fairer Britain", the party has confirmed today.

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Why did we build BBC iD?

Mar 12, 2010 9:40 AM

You may have noticed that slowly but surely, we're moving all our existing services to a new sign in system, called BBC iD. You might also notice that anything we build from now on uses BBC iD from the start....

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Marking the World Day Against Cyber Censorship

Mar 12, 2010 9:00 AM

“Against the enemies of the internet” – this is the short but incisive message for today’s World Day Against Cyber Censorship, organised by press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Jean-Francois Jul…

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Amazon objector claims partial victory in One-Click patent challenge

Mar 12, 2010 8:40 AM

Amazon's controversial 'one click' patent has been given the green light by the US Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) after a re-examination.

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Tories will halt IT procurement and try to stop contracts over 100m

Mar 12, 2010 8:40 AM

Government IT procurement will stall after this year's general election if the Conservative Party wins power. Conservatives have pledged to put an immediate halt to all IT procurement and to try to make it harder to award contracts over 100 million.

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Nurofen Express launches latest campaign

Mar 12, 2010 8:15 AM

Nurofen is launching the next phase of an 11m multi media campaign to support Nurofen Express.

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Ex-Tiscali boss takes the helm at home energy monitoring service AlertMe

Mar 12, 2010 6:58 AM

[UK] AlertMe, the Cambridge-based home energy monitoring service, has hired ex-Tiscali UK boss Mary Turner as its new CEO. Turner ran the ISP's UK business from 2001 where she took the company from less than half a million dial-up customers t…

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Nominet plans release of super-short domain names

Mar 12, 2010 11:47 AM

A host of new, short domain names will be made available under the body responsible for domain names ending in .uk, Nominet. It plans to allow the registration of previously-banned domain names consisting of one or two characters.

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#followjourn: Miriam Shaviv/foreign editor

Mar 12, 2010 6:40 AM

#followjourn: Miriam Shaviv Who? Shaviv is associate foreign editor at the Jewish Chronicle. She was formerly editor of the Jerusalem Post. Where? Her articles for the Jewish Chronicle are collected at this link. She has her own website at www…

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Yemen seizes Arab broadcasters’ equipment - from Media Network Weblog

Mar 12, 2010 5:01 AM

Two pan-Arab news channels said today that the Yemeni authorities had seized broadcasting equipment from their Sanaa bureaux by force because of their coverage of the growing unrest in Yemen’s south. A government official told state medi…

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Psion appoints MRM London to handle integrated ad account

Mar 12, 2010 4:55 AM

LONDON - Psion, the handheld computing company, has appointed MRM London to handle its pan-European integrated advertising and digital search strategy.

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New YLE financing on hold - from Media Network Weblog

Mar 12, 2010 4:51 AM

New administrative arrangements and financing reforms for the public service Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE, have been put on hold. The Minister of Communications, Suvi Lindn, announced yesterday that decisions on reforms will be put off un…

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Common currency an impossible dream, says Mindshare

Mar 12, 2010 4:48 AM

The industry will not fully adopt one common currency online, according to Steve Simpson, global leader ofbusiness planning at Mindshare Worldwide.

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Bmycharity to close after failure to find new investment

Mar 12, 2010 4:48 AM

Fundraising website Bmycharity is to close in ten days time if new investment cant be found.

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MPs and peer charged with expenses offences deserve fair trial | Michael White - from Media Guardian

Mar 12, 2010 4:47 AM

When I was a regular court reporter in Queen Victoria's day we took contempt of court seriously. Some papers today ought to refresh their memoriesA wholesome public figure whom we all know said in my hearing this week "there's a crisis of publ…

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