Jul
3
One of Britain’s biggest online paedophile inquiries is to be challenged in the court of appeal amid allegations from campaigners that hundreds of men have been wrongly convicted in a mass miscarriage of justice.
For more than two years a small group of experts have claimed that Operation Ore, the police inquiry into thousands of British men, was tainted because the database at the centre of the investigation contained evidence of widespread credit card fraud. Their allegations will be tested for the first time in the appeal court within weeks, when a judge examines a test case that could expose a huge miscarriage of justice, lawyers say.
The single judge will decide whether the case should go to a full appeal. Read more
Jul
2
Police and other authorities in California were yesterday locked in discussion over a plan to put Michael Jackson’s body on display at the site of his former fantasy playground, Neverland, on Friday for a potentially chaotic public farewell.
A fan holds an autographed photo of Michael Jackson at the Apollo theatre in New York. Photograph: Reuters
The cable TV network CNN and the website TMZ, which first broke the news of Jackson’s death, both reported that his body would be taken in a 30-car motorcade tomorrow the 130 miles from his home in Los Angeles to the Neverland ranch. Read more
Jun
30
How the Mafia conquered social networks
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Not so long ago, the faces of gaming on social networks were those of zombies, vampires, and cuddly virtual pets. Now it’s more along the lines of Michael Corleone or Tony Soprano.
You’ve probably seen it in your news feed: From Facebook to MySpace and now Twitter, Mafia-themed games have more or less taken over. Mobsters, a game created by development company Playdom, is the most popular application on MySpace’s platform. Mafia Wars, owned by Zynga, is a huge hit on Facebook. The Social Gaming Network has an iPhone app called Mafia: Respect and Retaliation. And earlier this month, a Twitter-based game called 140 Mafia launched. The craze appears to have started with a Facebook app called Mob Wars, which was built by a smaller company called Psycho Monkey.
The premises of most of these games are the same. You can found or join a “mob” with friends from the social network that the game has been built on. You can carry out missions, including “killing” other players in rival mobs, in order to earn points. Your activities are broadcast, via news feeds or Twitter posts, to your friends on the network in question.
Jun
29
MPs condemn police tactics at G20 protest
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Keep untrained officers off frontline at demos, says highly critical Commons committee report
Protesters and police clash outside the Bank of England during G20 demonstrations
Untrained officers must never again be put in the frontline of policing public protests, according to a highly critical MPs’ report on the G20 protests published today.
The conclusion from the Commons home affairs select committee inquiry into the G20 protests of April 1 follows admissions from senior Metropolitan police officers that some inexperienced officers, who were clearly quite scared, used “inappropriate force”.
The report by the cross-party group of MPs says they “cannot condone the use of untrained, inexperienced officers on the frontline of a public protest under any circumstances”. Read more
Jun
25
One element was striking in Tuesday’s joint press release from Intel and Nokia: Symbian was not mentioned.
Symbian is the dominant operating system for smartphones with a 50 percent market share. Nokia has been using it for 10 years.
Instead, Nokia and Intel declared that they will “develop common technologies for use in the Moblin and Maemo platform projects.”
Both are Linux-based platforms: Moblin is supported by Intel and Maemo is used by Nokia in its Internet Tablets such as N810 (the only modern touch-screen devices that Nokia made until it finally launched its touch-screen 5800 Xpress Music phone in October 2008). Read more
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