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Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:12
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Advanced information overlay technology has long been the preserve of futuristic film and TV fantasies. Here, Peter Warren, reveals how a pioneering California-based company is turning science fiction into hi-tech reality for the masses via its online data-fusion system – with huge implications for the way we view the world.

Ten years ago, the now defunct 3D company Silicon Graphics put together a 3D astral model of the Milky Way for the American Museum of Natural History.

Called the Digital Galaxy Project, the model allowed visitors to fly through our galaxy, marvelling at the sheer size and scale of the system to which our planet belongs, and of which it is such a tiny part.

Old photo-copier spills defence documents

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Sunday, 18 July 2010 22:05
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By Guy Basnett and Pete Warren

THOUSANDS of office photocopiers containing secret or personal information are being unwittingly flogged off to potential crooks, we can reveal.

Future intelligence and the News of the World expose how Britain’s businesses are carelessly throwing away YOUR personal and financial information that has been left stored on used office equipment.

The end of privacy?

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Thursday, 02 April 2009 22:03
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Forget Street View, there is a far more subtle – and pervasive – invasion of your private life being carried out – this time through your mobile phone.

When the furore about Google Street View washed across the UK last month, Google must have been pleased. For a much more sinister invasion of privacy had gone unnoticed. A week before, Google had, without any fanfare, released 11 software applications for mobile phones that spell a fundamental change in our lives, Pete Warren reports.

City of London loses to Olympic Games in power stakes

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Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:35
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London's lights grow dimmer as Olympic torch gets closer

When the UK won its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, Tony Blair was jubilant – but he probably little thought that he was shackling the City of London, the UK’s top money earner, by denying it access to the national grid.

Lack of concern over growing cybercrime angers UK businesses

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Thursday, 19 July 2007 22:11
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British industry leaders have called for urgent government intervention over the failure to deal with escalating online crime.

A failure that has seen some of the UK’s largest corporations are being told to report multimillion pound international cybercrime incidents to their local police stations.

The shambles over cybercrime

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Thursday, 05 July 2007 22:17
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Despite the increase in online fraud, enforcement of the law is a mess since the dissolution of the specialist agency set up to fight it, says Pete Warren

Been the victim of online fraud? Until recently you would have reported it to the police, but now the onus on investigating such crimes lies not with the boys in blue but with the banking industry. Without a hint of irony on April 1, the Association of Chief Police Officers announced that it would no longer be responsible for investigating e-crime. That move marked the final straw for some.

Hackers target top executives at home

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Thursday, 15 February 2007 23:01
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One of the UK’s leading banks has been forced to admit that organised hacking gangs have been targeting its executives. For the past year, Royal Bank of Scotland has been fighting systematic attempts to break into its computer systems from hackers who have sent personalised emails containing keyloggers to its senior management.

Yahoo restructures technology in bid to upstage Google

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Monday, 08 May 2006 22:32
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Internet search company Yahoo is set to go head to head with rival Google in a bid to win control of the multi-billion pound internet advertising market.

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