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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @05:29PM from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Submission + - UK Police ask blogger to delete pictures. (shkspr.mobi)

Submitted by

nbannerman

on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @06:10PM

nbannerman writes: "UK Police are at it again, this time asking UK citizens to delete photographs and give in their details. Worryingly, the Police are operating under the false belief that they have the right to do this. The full story has spread across twitter, with the original blogger giving his side of the story here : http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2009/06/police-camera-action/"

Comment Re:I for one... (Score 2, Interesting) 187

by nbannerman on Sunday March 08, 2009 @08:17PM (#27116073) Attached to: Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker

Well to be fair, region locking makes sense.

Why should I, as a UK TV licence payer, fund programs for other people to watch?

Additionally, I believe that since the BBC co-producers shows with other broadcasters in other countries, the licensing agreements currently in place mean the BBC has to take steps to stop (for example) a co-Canadian produced drama appearing for free before it is shown in Canada.

Oh, and the BBC is not a state-run tv channel. It is a public broadcaster, but aside from the BBC Trust (which is more advisory), Government input is limited. Indeed the BBC have a very long and strong history of taking the Government (be it Tory or Labour) to task.

It should also be noted that there isn't a 'TV tax' in the UK. The TV licence is only payable if you actually own a TV capable of receiving BBC programming. Now whilst the licence system could use a bit of modernising, it isn't a blanket tax.

Comment Re:This only punishes the foolish (Score 5, Funny) 438

by nbannerman on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @07:15PM (#24221277) Attached to: Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users

Someone should get an ass-kicking for this.

Agreed. I'll certainly be asking for my money back...

Submission + - TV-Links.co.uk Raided, Owner Arrested (thenewfreedom.net)

Submitted by

nbannerman

on Sunday October 21, 2007 @05:53PM

nbannerman writes: "TV-Links (currently down) was a site which linked to sites like Google Video and YouTube, which host clips of TV shows. It has been missed by most of the mainstream media, but a 26-year-old man from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet. Further information comes from an article at The Guardian (http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2195407,00.html), which states that The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest, the anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said today."

Will The iPhone Kill The iPod? 338

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 26, 2007 @12:08PM from the most-likely-yes dept.

Edward Sinovian writes "According to Cnet.co.uk, the days of MP3 players, digital cameras and satellite navigation systems are numbered with cell phones about to take center stage. "PDAs have already been crushed by smart phones and the same thing looks to be happening with standalone MP3 players, particularly the smaller flash ones — a theory supported by Apple's recent entry into the world of music phones. If you then take into consideration the convergence of camera, GPS, TV and laptop-like functionality into mobile phones, it raises the question of how long it's going to take before all you need is a mobile phone." With that in mind, do you think that the iPhone will kill the iPod?"

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