UK’s families put on fraud alert  —  Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.  —  The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people.

Source:   BBC
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UK families put on fraud alert  —  Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.  —  The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people.

Source:   BBC
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25m child benefit records lost  —  Alistair Darling has blamed mistakes by junior officials at HM Revenue and Customs after details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost.  —  The Chancellor said information, including bank details of 7m families, had been sent on discs to the National Audit office by unrecorded delivery.

Source:   BBC
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Vodafone blocks iPhone in Germany  —  It’s a ‘pretty poor experience’, so you can’t have it  —  Vodafone has won an injunction preventing T-Mobile from selling the iPhone in Germany.  T-Mobile is Apple’s exclusive carrier partner in Europe’s biggest market.  —  The lawsuit challenges T-Mobile’s exclusivity arrangement with Apple.

Source:   The Register
Author:   Andrew Orlowski
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Amazon Reading Device Doesn’t Need Computer  —  Jeff Bezos knows that the world is not exactly clamoring for another way to read electronic books.  —  “If you go back in time, the landscape is littered with the bodies of dead e-book readers,” Mr. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, said yesterday.

Source:   New York Times
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Firefox version 3 makes beta  —  New features for the brave, or foolhardy  —  Version 3 of Firefox, the alternative web browser of choice, is now available to download for its first beta test.  —  After 27 months of hard work the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine has been integrated …

Source:   The Register
Author:   Bill […]

Open Letter To Senators Hatch & Kohl About Google-DoubleClick  —  Today, US senators Herb Kohl and Orrin Hatch published a letter (PDF) urging the US Federal Trade Commission to carefully consider the proposed Google-DoubleClick deal.  Sure, who doesn’t agree with a careful review?

Source:   Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Firefox 3 Beta 1 Release Notes  —  Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.  —  These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and our testing community to gain feedback before advancing …

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download  —  Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release.  It is intended for testing purposes only.  —  Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download.

Source:   Mozilla Developer News
Author:   Beltzner
Link:   http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007…

Mozilla’s Firefox 3 beta: Improved but imperfect  —  A few months later than had been planned, Mozilla released on Monday night the first beta version of an overhauled Firefox, the widely used open-source Web browser.  —  Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of significant features that Mozilla …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Stephen Shankland
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