Asks Phatboy A. The AnswerBank does not have a 'f'ind a friend' facility, but hopefully the following information will help you start your search: Increasingly, the best way to find lost friends,
00:00 Mon 30th Apr 2001asks JacksonC A. There are loose rules concerning netiquette - etiquette on the Internet - which people are expected to follow, although there are no steadfast rules and regulations for sending
00:00 Mon 30th Apr 2001Asks DanMiller103 A. Repetitive Strain Injury or RSI is a term used for injuries that are sustained in the soft tissues - muscles, tendons and nerves - by overuse. It can start by aches and pains,
00:00 Mon 23rd Apr 2001Asks Esme Harrison A. There are loads of sites out there, but some of the best UK ones are the more general, unspecialised sites that offer a wide range of products in different categories, e.g. boys
00:00 Mon 23rd Apr 2001Is it true that Freeserve is broadcasting Lennox Lewis' fight with Hasim Rahman online If the fight is going to be on TV what's the point ... asks Howard Piercy A. The downturn in the online
00:00 Thu 19th Apr 2001Asks HughA. In a traditional auction environment the seller auctions inventory to the highest bidder, the same is true for an electronic auction. In a reverse auction, which have been popularised by
00:00 Thu 12th Apr 2001Asks Howard PiercyA. Internet casinos are an integral part of Internet gambling, which is essentially the betting, playing and collecting of money via the Internet. Within a virtual casino, or a
00:00 Thu 12th Apr 2001Asks Howard Piercy A. There are two ways of tracing your family tree online, you can either do it yourself via a research site or a named surname site, for example, you would search under 'Piercy';
00:00 Mon 09th Apr 2001A. Many leading companies believe that mobile phones are the next new medium for advertisers. The idea is born of the text messaging phenomenon, and with 929 million text messages sent out in the UK
00:00 Sun 25th Mar 2001A. Various web monitoring organisations, including ABC Electric and The Internet Advertising Bureau, have called for stricter rules governing the audit of visitor figures after many websites have
00:00 Fri 23rd Mar 2001A. The UK home secretary Jack Straw has called on mobile phones companies, including Vodafone, BT Cellnet, One2One and Orange, to collaborate with the government to help find ways to make mobile
00:00 Sun 25th Mar 2001In recent weeks, the IT channel has received some exciting, some mundane, some surprising, some surreal, some serious and some silly questions that have never ceased to amaze the Answerbank team. The
00:00 Sat 17th Mar 2001 A. Napster is a free music distribution service, devised by the US youngster Shawn Fanning. At the age of 19, the rock music fan wrote the software for Napster to allow Internet users to copy songs
00:00 Sat 17th Mar 2001A. PDAs are the latest gadgets to hit tech-land. PDA stands for personal digital assistant and has taken over the filofax to become the indispensable tool for organising one's personal and business
00:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001A. Many web publishers are hoping that bigger and bolder banner ads will encourage net users to pay more attention to the products being advertised and thus increase the company's revenue.
00:00 Mon 12th Mar 2001A. Psychologists attribute three harmful effects to media violence that they suspect might also apply to ultra-violent video game playing. They believe that game players, particularly children, may
00:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001A. The Internet is the new platform for the world's top talk-show hosts and music DJs as thousands of radio stations migrate online everyday. Many of these broadcasters are traditional stations that
00:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001By Christina Okoli ANYONE who's anyone has a website these days. Industry analysts say it could make or break your business. But, with all of its virtues, the very thought of building one's own
00:00 Sat 03rd Mar 2001 IN RECENT weeks, the IT channel has attracted some cracking questions that have helped to shed light on even the darkest corners of cyberspace. One user, in fact, rekindled the war of the
00:00 Sat 24th Feb 2001By Christina Okoli A DRIVER was sentenced this month to five years in prison after his lorry hit and killed a pedestrian in a roadside lay-by. The presiding judge described the driver's actions as
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