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Today’s lurking Facebook danger is… syphilis?

Today’s lurking Facebook danger is… syphilis?

If the child predators and looming divorces aren't enough to worry about when you log on to social networking site Facebook, an area in northern England seems to be experiencing a 400% jump in syphilis cases tentatively ... continue
Sony Ericsson X10 Vodafone Release Date Confirmed For April

Sony Ericsson X10 Vodafone Release Date Confirmed For April

Vodafone UK has put up a pre-order / pre-release page for the Sony Ericsson showing an arrival date of April 2010, a date that's certainly in line with Japan and Germany release months. The device, which has been ... continue
Rage Against the Machine topple X Factor after Facebook campaign

Rage Against the Machine topple X Factor after Facebook campaign

For the past four years here in the UK, the top of the music singles chart has assumed a predictable shape, with the annual winner of Simon Cowell's X Factor TV show grabbing the coveted Christmas #1 ... continue
British tattoo artist memorializes son with ashes in tattoo ink

British tattoo artist memorializes son with ashes in tattoo ink

A tattoo artist in Britain is paying tribute to his son by mixing the boy's ashes with ink for a memorial tattoo. Mark Richmond, 39, lost his son Ayden to a rare condition that left the boy unable ... continue
Man helps find rapist, donates reward to victim

Man helps find rapist, donates reward to victim

Lloyd Gardner, 22, contacted police in 2006 to help solve a rape case. The victim was brutally raped and left for dead, naked under a truck with a fractured skull. The woman is still confined to a wheelchair. Gardner, ... continue
Brits invent “teacup pigs,” new trend in pets

Brits invent “teacup pigs,” new trend in pets

You might remember not too long ago when pigs were trendy as pets. I think Julia Roberts and or George Clooney may have been pig-owners. But when regular people got pigs as pets, they quickly realized that the ... continue
Retailers slashing price of PSP Go in UK … a week after launch

Retailers slashing price of PSP Go in UK … a week after launch

Sony's PSP Go hardware hit stores on October 1st. Only one week on, and a number of major UK retailers have initiated a price cut. Amazon UK, Game, Gamestation, and HMV have all dropped the launch price of ... continue
Soldier’s best friend honors his wish, shows up to funeral in neon drag

Soldier’s best friend honors his wish, shows up to funeral in neon drag

Private Kevin Elliott, 24, a Black Watch soldier, was killed in Afghanistan on August 31st. Elliott and his best mate, Barry Delaney, had a pact. Whichever one survived the other would attend his friend's funeral in drag. And ... continue
Virgin’s solution to piracy not sitting well with all record companies

Virgin’s solution to piracy not sitting well with all record companies

Well color me surprised but not all of the record companies are happy with UK ISP Virgin Media’s planned subscription service for downloading music. The UK company believes that consumers want to be ... continue
Microsoft RAISING price of Xbox 360 in UK (and including less content)

Microsoft RAISING price of Xbox 360 in UK (and including less content)

Remember how Activision recently announced plans to raise the price of Modern Warfare 2 in the UK? Well, it looks like Microsoft is following suit. Retailers have confirmed to Eurogamer that the price of an Xbox 360 Arcade ... continue
WTF? Activision hiking price of Modern Warfare 2 in UK

WTF? Activision hiking price of Modern Warfare 2 in UK

Apologies for the recent rash of Call of Duty-related posts, but this kind of thing really gets my goddamn goat. First of all, let me say this much: Modern Warfare 2 looks fantabulous, and I've no doubt it ... continue
Mourning mom in UK fined for lingering at dead baby’s cremation

Mourning mom in UK fined for lingering at dead baby’s cremation

It's hard to imagine how a funeral for a five-week-old baby lost to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) could become a more heartbreaking occasion for grieving parents. But Terrie Rouse, 32, was shocked when she discovered she'd been ... continue
The U.K. wants your Twitter chatter under surveillance

The U.K. wants your Twitter chatter under surveillance

Not happy with pushing the EU Data Retention Directive which would make ISPs store communication data for 12 months Vernon Coaker, the U.K. Home Office security minister, now wants all social networking sites and ... continue
Kate Moss is a Wreck (Again?)

Kate Moss is a Wreck (Again?)

Kate Moss + Beth Ditto is such a bad combination; whoever orchestrated that should be to blame for the mess that was the UK's House of Blue Eyes event. Kate quickly went from trying to smoke indoors ... continue
Twitter Kills UK’s SMS — Will That Kill Twitter?

Twitter Kills UK’s SMS — Will That Kill Twitter?

It's all the buzz in the blogosphere today: Twitter has ended its outbound text messaging service for the entire UK, limiting the SMS capability now to only the United States, Canada, and India. The reason all comes down ... continue
Government to Monitor UK Internet Use

Government to Monitor UK Internet Use

Downloading a copyrighted file in the UK could now get you a direct warning from the government. A new plan, just announced today, has the nation's six biggest ISPs working hand-in-hand with regulating group Ofcom. ... continue