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BSKYB BITES THE BINARY BULLET [MONITOR]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1369&ch=monitor
BSkyB has assembled a war chest worth more than £20 million to fund
a raft of new internet projects including acquiring strategic stakes
in several e-commerce companies.
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GO FIGURE - BARB GETS DIGITAL [MONITOR]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1370&ch=monitor
Channel 5 and Channel 4 have been the terrestrial channels hardest hit
by the arrival of digital TV according to the first set of digital
Barb figures released this week.
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ETOYS VS. ETOY - THE PLOT THICKENS [NEWZ]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1362&ch=newz
Coming hot off the press, we have the latest update to the ongoing
eToys vs. etoy case. This update comes direct from their email ...
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NEW MEDIA TALENT AWARD 2000 [EVOLVE]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1367&ch=evolve
NMT 2000 is "the UK's leading new media prize and is, as such, the
benchmark against which the industry's finest creative work is
measured", if you believe the press and this year has been won by
Martin Casey.
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SONY OUTSIDE - PALM INSIDE [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1368&ch=tech
Sony and Palm have announced what's possibly the most far-reaching
deal the handheld computer vendor has yet made.
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RETURN OF THE STAR CHILDERN [NEWZ]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1353&ch=newz
It was a meteor shower that was like no other shower, which boomed
into the most glorious display of shooting stars in 33 years, raining
down flashy fireballs over the Arabian desert while putting on a more
demure show in other spots.
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MY NOSE IS KILLING ME [SONAR]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1363&ch=sonar
Less powder, more horn. Yup, Save The Rhino is lining up a four
roomed, multi-musical, multi-media fundraising extravaganza from the
UK's most unusual and innovative charity fundraising crew ...
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ONEDOTHEROES [FILTER]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1364&ch=filter
Back in the middle of September Taipei took a pounding from a more
than usual amount of underground resistance in the form of an
earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and of course,
those newly re-christened, onedothero boys.
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PRAGUE PNEUMATIC POST [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1354&ch=tech
Digging up another Dead Media gem for the old skool anoraks to
analise during their own annual analogue Antiques Road Show, we
present a touching tale of J. C. Herz's experience with the
Prague Pneumatic Post.
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GLOBAL ONLINE DEMOGRAPHICS ROUND-UP [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1355&ch=tech
There has been a load of reports and announcements this week about
the number of online users in various parts of the world, so we
have done the decent thing and put them all together for you in
a series of articles, "how considerate" I hear you say.
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ONE THIRD OF DANISH FAMILIES ONLINE [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1356&ch=tech
The number of Danish households with Web access has increased four
fold in the last 24 months. 740,000 Danish households now have Web
access according to a study, "PCs and access to the Internet" by
Dansk Statistik.
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INTERNET USE IN ASIA TO EXPLODE BY 2005 [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1357&ch=tech
A new survey finds that the amount of people using the Internet is
Asia will increase by 422 percent in the next six years and will
number 228 million by 2005.
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OVER HALF OF US ADULTS USE THE INTERNET [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1358&ch=tech
The number of US Internet users has just passed the 100 million
mark, representing half of the entire adult population, according
to new research from the Strategis Group. Just one year ago, that
figure was 68 million.
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WOMEN CAN'T IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT THE WEB [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1359&ch=tech
In a survey of women's' attitude to the Internet, Women.com, a US
based portal, finds that 70 percent of women polled cannot imagine
life without the Internet.
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CHILDREN CHOOSE WEB SURFING OVER CHANNEL SURFING [TECH]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1360&ch=tech
A joint AOL and Roper Starch study of 500 children between the ages
of 9 and 17 found that 63 percent of the youth surveyed would rather
surf the Web than watch television, while 55 percent prefer being on
the Web to being on the telephone.
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CODE JUNKIES CHEAT CODES [ZONE]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1365&ch=zone
If you are a gamer head, you will burst those blistered
forefingers over these new cheat codes ...
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SPANNER IN THE WORKZ [SONAR]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1366&ch=sonar
The Ambassador's Party ... the Ferro Roche ... the cheap suits ...
the sophisticated block party? Yup, this Saturday sees the return
of this great little night for all "paygirls and gameboys" c/o
your hosts The Spannerheadz ...
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LUX AQUA PURA [EVOLVE]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1371&ch=evolve
Lux Aqua Pura is a month-long site-specific video installation,
created by Marianna Haniger, currently being presented in the
Water Tower at Seattle's Volunteer Park.
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DVIOUS SHORTS [FILTER]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1372&ch=filter
DVious Shorts invite London's future filmmakers and groundbreakers
to get the digital trail blazing. With a judging panel that
celebrates the best of British and international film talent ...
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CLUB LUX : GAMES NIGHT [ZONE]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1373&ch=zone
London's "mecca of mixed media mayhem" is firing off a new series
of interactive club nights from 3 December with Games Night. Themed
to coincide with Miltos Manetas' scene-stealing exhibition ...
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D&AD PRESIDENT'S LECTURES [EVOLVE]
http://www.ninfomania.com/article.asp?id=1374&ch=evolve
They might make Big Yellow Pencils, but they also know a thing or
two about standards. These on-going lectures are usually both
entertaining and high informative, so if you fancy some brain food
that doesn't go bump in the night, get down with the D&AD.
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