Researchers find that hundreds of primary and secondary school kids at Greater Manchester have been looking at smut during the school day as well as using school computers to send abusive messages.

The research was carried out by E-safe Education and it showed that average school triggered between 50 to 100 serious alerts every day.

Almost 30% of these serious alerts were due to nude pictures and hardcore pornography viewing while the others were related to cyber-threats.

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Windows Vista SP2 (limited beta) is going to be released on Wednesday 29 October. Is it expected to bring any surprise?

We have seen that Vista’s much awaited SP1 was just a combination of the automatic upgrades that were available for the OS and now it seems that SP2 may also bring something similar.

However, what comes next? It will be more apparent on Wednesday, as the beta version is handed to some of Technology Adoption Program customers on Wednesday.

Mike Nash says on the Windows Vista official blog, “There are some previously released fixes and it focuses on addressing specific reliability, compatibility and performance issues.”

“It is expected that Windows Vista SP2 will retain compatibility with applications that go on Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1.”

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Are you thinking about admission in Oxford or Cambridge? Can you wait for some time? If you can, there is another option and this option is Apple University that is going to be opened next year. So, just think about spending time with Steve Jobs at the student bar, listening to Jonathan Ive lecture on design and tinkering with iPhones. Still are you thinking about Oxford or Cambridge?

Yeah it’s true, Apple has decided to throw open the doors of its own educational institute, the Apple University.

The news came forward after Apple announcement that it had recruited Joel Podolny (the dean of the Yale School of Management) as vice president and dean of Apple University.

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World economic woes? No problem! With over $1 billion profits, Apple shrugs off the world’s economic worries and posts one of its best quarters ever. According to Apple, soaring sales of iPhones and Macs played a key role in this success.

“We have succeeded to sale more phones than RIM and it is, indeed, one of the best quarters in Apple’s history.” A happy Steve Jobs crowed announced.

The company reported $1.14 billion 3Q profit on almost $8 billion sales, which shows an income of $1.26 per diluted share of stock.

Mac computers came forward as a big seller with 21% more units’ sale than the same period during last year. Similarly, iPod saw 8% increase in sale compared to the same period of last year.

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According to the Pew Internet report, people are coming closer, as mobile phones and internet are helping them to maintain social ties.

A survey of 2,252 Americans shows that one of the keenest users of technology are families.

The survey noted that the use of Internet was often a social activity in families, as 51% parents told that they got online with their children.

Tracy Kennedy, who helped to write the Networked Families report, says: “Some analysts believe that new technologies are hurting family togetherness, but we have found in our survey that there is a new kind of connectedness among families because of cell phones and internet.”

In their survey the researchers examined the differences between families (with children and single adults) in technology use.

The researchers found that so-called ‘nuclear’ families had considerably increased hi-tech gadgetry in their homes than the other measured group.

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Aside from many other heavy internet restrictions, now the Chinese internet users have to take their photos with them every time they use a ‘net café.

The new measures will be implemented by the end of December and it is being considered another method of keeping online subversives’ track and to do anything as a highly visible hindrance to avoid a person doing anything that is prohibited.

The censorious approach of Chinese authorities is quite well-known and they have closed down more than 18,000 websites considering them inappropriate in just six months during the last year.

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T-Mobile’s G1 that will first show off much awaited Android OS will be available in the UK in next two weeks (most probably from 30 October).

Only in UK, there are more than 25,000 per-orders for the G1 and some analysts predicts that that demand for the handset will exceed a lot in other parts of the world as well.

According to some estimates, more than 600,000 T-Mobile G1 handsets that have been manufactured by HTC will be sold till the end of this year and it will outshine the level of demands for the first Apple iPhone.

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Now you can order your pizza via Facebook

Now you can order your pizza directly while using FaceBook as Pizza Hut has unveiled a new application knowing people are too lazy these days.

Now aside from checking out what your friends are doing and when you are in mid-way through a poking frenzy while ninja-pirate baiting, you can order food as well.

Using Pizza Hut Interface (hmm clever act), you can order your pasta, pizza and chicken wings.

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