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| VIDEO: Ad boss on Facebook's power Thu, 17 May 2012 01:36:12 GMT Sir Martin Sorrell explains to Rory Cellan-Jones the strengths and weaknesses of Facebook when it comes to advertising, as the company prepares to float on the stock exchange. |
| VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow Tue, 15 May 2012 12:11:09 GMT The creative brains studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York are showcasing their ideas for a smarter tomorrow. |
| VIDEO: Ivy League education free on the web Tue, 15 May 2012 08:03:14 GMT Click's Sumi Das reports on the Udacity project which is already causing ripples around the globe as it is making a top class education available to anyone, anywhere and for free. |
| VIDEO: Guide to developing mobile games Mon, 14 May 2012 05:29:08 GMT With mobile gaming becoming an increasingly lucrative sector, young entrepreneurs are focusing their attentions on this growing industry. |
| VIDEO: Philippines call centre success Mon, 14 May 2012 23:05:16 GMT The Philippines has recently overtaken India as the country with the most call centre workers - and it is due in no small part to technology. |
| VIDEO: The challenge for Yahoo Mon, 14 May 2012 12:21:03 GMT Yahoo has announced its Chief Executive Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his CV. |
| VIDEO: Buyers' guide to wireless printers Fri, 11 May 2012 12:53:47 GMT Spencer Kelly advises on the huge range of wireless printers available in the shops. |
| AUDIO: Tweeting to a planet near you Fri, 11 May 2012 09:20:41 GMT Why is an artist about to sent tweets into space? Nathaniel Stern, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Anu Ojha, Director of the National Space Academy in Leicester, explain. |
| VIDEO: Facebook app store and other tech news Fri, 11 May 2012 08:18:46 GMT In a bid to ramp up its focus on mobile lifestyles, Facebook acquires 'social discovery' startup Glancee. |
| AUDIO: Could you be a Facebook 'addict'? Wed, 16 May 2012 13:25:33 GMT The BBC's Gareth Mitchell discusses whether it is possible to be addicted to social networks like Facebook with psychologist Dr Cecilie Andreassen. |
| VIDEO: How to 'beam' a robot avatar Thu, 10 May 2012 22:23:37 GMT The BBC has been given an exclusive demonstration of how the technology of robot avatar 'beaming' works, allowing a kind of 'physical' interaction at a distance. |
| VIDEO: X-rays probe world's oldest 'computer' Wed, 09 May 2012 23:22:00 GMT Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world's oldest 'computer' - the Antikythera Mechanism. |
| VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking? Thu, 10 May 2012 08:31:46 GMT Lara Lewington investigates why so many gadgets break without anything seeming to be wrong with them. |
| VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price? Wed, 09 May 2012 07:43:45 GMT Ian Hardy reports on how extensive the right to privacy on the web is and whether users should be allowed to browse in secret. |
| VIDEO: 'Islamic Facebook' woos Muslims Tue, 08 May 2012 03:01:39 GMT Salamworld, a social networking site with Islamic influences, is due to launch in July with the hope of challenging Facebook's supremacy. |
| VIDEO: Views on the 'Cambridge phenomenon' Wed, 09 May 2012 07:29:28 GMT Two technology start-up entrepreneurs and the chief executive of ARM Holdings explain why Cambridge is a good place for a tech company to be based. |
| VIDEO: Cyber crime warnings for India Mon, 07 May 2012 01:22:48 GMT Cyber crime is a problem in developed countries and as the internet expands in emerging countries it's opening up a new range of potential targets to cyber criminals. |
| VIDEO: Taking a look at the new Galaxy S3 Thu, 03 May 2012 22:03:42 GMT South Korean firm Samsung has unveiled its latest smartphone, the successor to the Galaxy S2. |
| VIDEO: James May meets his virtual self Fri, 04 May 2012 13:40:46 GMT Richard Taylor reports on how virtual reality has made James May fear for the future of his presenting career. |
| VIDEO: Facebook value set at up to $95bn Fri, 04 May 2012 07:06:17 GMT Facebook has set the share price for its upcoming initial public offering (IPO) at between $28 and $35 per share, valuing the company at between $85bn-$95bn (£52bn-£59bn). |
| VIDEO: PM to discuss porn blocks with ISPs Fri, 04 May 2012 13:27:05 GMT David Cameron is to meet ISPs to discuss new measures aimed at protecting children from pornography online |
| AUDIO: MP: Abuse 'not Twitter's fault' Thu, 03 May 2012 08:54:19 GMT Conservative MP Louise Mensch and Chief Constable Stuart Hyde debate abuse on Twitter |
| VIDEO: Anonymous 'hacktivist' unmasked Tue, 01 May 2012 19:20:18 GMT Anonymous 'hacktivist' Peter Fein comes out from the cyber shadows to explain what he believes the group is trying to achieve. |
| AUDIO: Should ISPs police online content? Tue, 01 May 2012 07:53:46 GMT Who is responsible for content on the internet? Claire Perry MP, chair of the Internet Porn Inquiry and Nicholas Lansman of the Internet Service Providers ISP Association, debate the ISP ban on file sharing website Pirate Bay. |
| VIDEO: Pirate Bay: Fighting a losing battle? Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:40:14 GMT File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. |
| VIDEO: 50 years since UK went into space Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:08:04 GMT Britain sent its first satellite into space 50 years ago when Ariel 1 launched on 26 April, 1962. |
| VIDEO: 'Money-saving' tablet plan for MPs Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:54:29 GMT Three MPs were challenged to the Temple Run game on an iPad as a Commons committee suggested giving every MP a tablet computer to save money and printing paper. |
| VIDEO: 'UK loves data': CEO's case for 4G Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:05:16 GMT Olaf Swantee, CEO of Everything Everywhere, explains why he thinks the UK needs to speed up the rollout of 4G. |
| VIDEO: UK 'cyber grannies' teach Indians Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:32:05 GMT Retired teacher Jackie Barrow explains how she teaches Indian children thousands of miles away, using Skype. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.