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• Online Shopping Safety Tips Given by Ofcom

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 138
  As Christmas is just a few weeks ahead, it was warned that an increased number of shoppers tended to ignore the high street enticement, to follow the craze of ordering on the internet. This inclination of the people in the United Kingdom has prompted the telecommunications regulator of the country, Ofcom to issue a ...
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• Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 124
  Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda Blair Exorcist antic. (yes I know it’s almost Thanksgiving, but I’m still seguing from Halloween here…) I ...
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• Letters: Music industry is moving with the times

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Victor Keegan just cant bring himself to give the music industry credit for anything, can he ( The strange death of illegal downloading , Technology, 19 November)? He cant acknowledge that the industry has been changing in recent years, enabling and supporting the small, smart technology companies which he champions. ...
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• Minogues X Factor comments and treatment of Boyle cleared by Ofcom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ofcom clears Dannii Minogue of breaching broadcast code over comments about sexuality of contestant Danyl Johnson Ofcom has cleared The X Factor judge Dannii Minogue of breaching the broadcasting code for her remarks about the sexuality of contestant Danyl Johnson, despite receiving almost 4,000 complaints that her ...
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• An insidious argument for censorship | David Henshaw

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The legitimate questions raised by Dispatches deserve better than to be dismissed as Islamophobia and antisemitism So whats it like to go from being Britains top Islamophobe (Dispatches Undercover Mosque ) to Britains top antisemite (Dispatches Inside Britains Israel Lobby )? Well, its a remarkably easy, not to say ...
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• Ofcom Recieves Karoo’s Bundled Broadband Request

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 138
  A request has been made to the broadband regulator of the United Kingdom, Ofcom by internet service provider Karoo seeking permission to offer bundled broadband phone deals to its customers in the country. The broadband provider operating in the United Kingdom has given on its Facebook page that it was engaged in ...
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• Britain’s Ofcom investigates potential for new wireless communications technology

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 437
  [news release] Ofcom today published a discussion document to explore the potential of a new technology that could wirelessly link up different devices and offer enhanced broadband access in rural areas. The technology works by searching for unoccupied radio waves called “white spaces” between TV channels to ...
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• Why Britain’s watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish

  
  PC Pro blog — Authority: 533
  If there’s one thing that makes me angry, it’s other people not getting angry enough. Britain has swathes of so-called regulators and “watchdogs” monitoring everything from advertising, to telecoms, to the protection of our private data, and they’re all about as much use as a toaster in a bath.Take the ...
  6 days ago

• Government defends online piracy plans

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to future-proof government proposals to safeguard the UKs creative industries Read the governments statement on the bill Read the digital economy bill Stephen Timms, the Treasury secretary, has defended the governments controversial plans to give ministers sweeping ...
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• Ofcom frees up the local picture

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 513
  So Ofcom is set to recommending to the government that rules covering local media ownership should be relaxed, allowing one group to own newspapers and radio stations in the same area. According to Guardian media The recommendations will be welcomed by newspaper, TV and radio companies, which have been urging the ...
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• Ofcom tells Government to relax local media ownership rules

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Ofcom the communications regulator has recommended relaxing the rules on the ownership of local media and crossmedia ownership to tackle the decline in advertising at regional news groups.
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• Relax ownership rules to help local media, says Ofcom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Single firms should be able to own significantly more outlets than currently permitted, watchdog recommends Ofcom has recommended the liberalisation of local radio and cross-media ownership regulations to tackle the "significant economic changes" being faced by the sector. Following a period of consultation, the ...
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• In praise of … channel 69

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  With the possible exception of Britney Spears and Madonna, few would die for a wireless microphone. But you would be wrong to think it is not a subject capable of stoking passion. Much of the live entertainment industry in Britain, along with sports events, conferences and community events, will be affected by an ...
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• Jet Airways sends lowest fares via SMS

  
  PhoneArea.net — Authority: 158
  India’s Jet Airways is launching a new service for its customers, allowing them to get the lowest current fares on their mobile phone. The service works via SMS, and in order to…
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• Roy Greenslade: Tories plan big bang deregulation of the media

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 142
  We have been waiting for a while for the Tories to reveal their media policy. Now, it would appear, we have more than a glimpse of what they propose should they win next years election. The three major changes of its so-called "big bang" revolution would involve the deregulation of local media ownership, a freeze, or ...
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• Will the net widen to protect children online?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown to host new national child internet safety strategy presentation next month Barely a day passes without reports of attempts by paedophiles to groom underage children for sexual liaisons using internet chatrooms or other contacts. But what is the government, which set up a high profile group to tackle the ...
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• Mark Lawson imagines the media under the Tories

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Imagine flashing forward five years to life with the Tories: Mark Thompson has been sacked, Strictly Pole Dancing is on TV, and Simon Cowell runs an alternative BBC November 16, 2014: In a combative interview yesterday with Sunday Guardian Observer Online, Boris Johnson insisted that the broadcasting reforms by the ...
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• Tories plan Big Bang revolution in media

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Regulations on local media ownership to be swept away to revolutionise newspapers and television industries.
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• Computer and cell phone users targeted for radio, TV license fees

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Swiss TV news on computer Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s federal communications office (Ofcom) director, Martin Dumermuth, told the Berner Zeitung newspaper Thursday that he plans to propose in January a change to the current license fee regulations. Owners of television sets and radios are ...
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• OfcomWatch Friday fun: BBC expenses word cloud

  
  | OfcomWatch | — Authority: 118
  Are you like me — unable to sort through all the BBC expenses to determine whether our licence-fee money is being well spent?  The Times reported on some of the more notable expense claims today.   But we here at OfcomWatch thought it might be better to give you more of a 50,000 ft level view of the ...
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