Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
ISPs hijack BBC in tiered services push
Cash-strapped ISPs have begun a campaign to use the launch of the BBC's iPlayer on demand service to squeeze more cash from web TV viewers.
The iPlayer is still in beta and due to be fully launched in autumn. It expects to have 500,000 users before the big marketing push.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 14, 2007 at 12:21:00 PM CEST
Girl overdoses on espresso coffee
A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.
Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family's sandwich shop.
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Topic: TOYS - on August 14, 2007 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Boss in Chinese toy scandal kills himself
The Chinese toy factory owner at the centre of the storm over lead-tainted Sesame Street figures has committed suicide, the state-run media reported yesterday.
Zhang Shuhong, boss of a major supplier to Mattel, hanged himself at the weekend after his export licence was suspended and 1.5m products were withdrawn because of fears about toys sold in the US, the UK and other parts of Europe.
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Topic: WEB - on August 14, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.
In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations.
wired.com List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations
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