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14th July 2008 marks 150 years since the birth of Emmeline Pankhurst - the outspoken reformer committed to securing women’s suffrage in Britain. She was jailed on numerous occasions for her protests at the lack of political rights for women in the UK.
Universal suffrage in Britain was granted only in the year of Pankhurst’s death, [...]

Yet again, its time for another hot products sweep, as we track down what people are searching for, discovering and buying across our world wide network of terrific shopability. As the seasons change more discernibly from winter into spring/summer, it is perhaps unsurprising that all of a sudden on the TV and in adverts its [...]

Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and technology. Last year, Phorm made a loss of $11.6 million -yet somehow they have raised [...]

Just ask google - that’s us, we are making the internet finer. Its official. Google knows. Do you?

Here are some ideas for those of you planning a prank before midday tomorrow. Beware though -several April Fools‘ Day pranksters have been jailed for causing public nuisances and devaluing major companies! The safest way to prank is to use a name or series of words that are anagrams or pnuemonics of APRIL FOOLS or [...]

You know you’ve got a lot of diverse content within your network when you can look through pages and pages of the words people used to access some or all of your sites and find some real gems.
Here is a collection of strange(?) terms that are hot today:
Is Why Bird from Playdays Welsh?
There have been [...]

Following our piece on the campaign against Phorm software proposals, I e-mailed my local MP, William Hague, asking him to represent my views to the relevant authorities. A speedy response appeared in the post, direct from the House of Commons. Here is the text of the letter:
Dear Ms Haywood,
Thankyou for your email received 18th March, [...]

BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the [...]

There has been much made of Facebook’s irresponsibility towards the privacy and control of individual’s data over the last couple of months, the main gripe being that it is nigh on impossible to have your account and information permanently deleted. Part of this is due to Facebook having failed to register as a Data Controller [...]

Gung hei fat choy! Today marks the beginning of a fifteen day celebration to mark the Year of the Rat. 7th February is a new moon and the festival will end with the full moon on Friday 22nd February -the Lantern Festival.
Those rats amongst us will now be 1, 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, [...]