Helen Pidd
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/ 7 August 2007

‘Junk food’ companies target kids on the net

Some of the world’s leading food manufacturers have begun marketing to children on social networking websites and internet chat rooms. Since new rules imposed by the British media regulator Ofcom made it difficult to advertise during children’s television programmes, brands such as McDonald’s, Starburst, Haribo and Skittles are using the internet to target British children.

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/ 2 February 2005

Search and you shall find

In 1990, which is almost unimaginably long ago in internet years, the notion that computer scientists might one day create an artificial replacement for human memory was the stuff of science fiction. This notion gave birth to the idea that would come to change, at a fundamental level, the way we think. Its most feverish point was reached yesterday, with the launch of MSN Search, Microsoft’s long-awaited rival to Google.