This week's print edition of Guardian Technology is online too, looking at the police disquiet about how to tackle high-tech crime, the growing row about the Environment Agency's free - in very limited ways - flood map data, Vista service packs, and fuel cells. We also ask: can iPhones do what iPods did, and why doesn't irony work online?
This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too..
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The shambles over cybercrime
Despite the increase in online fraud, enforcement of the law is a mess since the dissolution of the specialist agency set up to fight it, says Pete Warren. -
The missing link between the web and the world
Interview, Richard Moross: On-demand printing provides an analogue product that originates in the digital world -
Rising tide of frustration at flood maps' restrictions
Free our data: Flood facts: Environment Agency steps in to stop a property site making its flood map data more user friendly. -
Tiny particles that are used to tackle the biggest issues
Nanotechnology applications are being developed to improve energy efficiency and combat global warming. Kim Thomas reports.
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Is Windows Vista Service Pack 1 coming out soon?
No, says Jack Schofield. We expected it this October or November. -
How can iPhones be as successful as iPods have been?
By delivering on their promise, and changing the definition of a mobile phone, says Neil McIntosh.
- Columns and opinion:
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National Rail chiefs could learn a lot by playing games
Aleks Krotoski: Games are really good at breaking down the fourth wall and engaging audiences with robots. -
Irony is too serious a business for most of the internet
Andrew Brown: Why is it that almost all the irony online is unintentional? -
Stand by for the Orwellian metaphors about ID cards
Michael Cross: Orwell would have approved, though he might have wondered why a fictitious totalitarian state should be held up as more terrifying than numerous real-life examples. -
Amateurs can be good and bad news
Victor Keegan: As iTunes has proved, most people will pay for downloads as long as a fair payments system is in place. -
Technobile
Wendy M Grossman: Hey PayPal, here's a tip - forget about the FAQs, just give me some help when I ask for it, please
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Games
The Sims: Pet Stories | Forza Motorsport 2 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -
Ask Jack
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Newsbytes
Apple up, Sony down | PC sales up | Video glasses | Games masters | Colourful eGos | Sagem flips | Silver Surfers wanted | Homeland insecurity -
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