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  <title><![CDATA[Grandma learns the IT ropes from 13 year old Sherbaz]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[They say you shouldn’t teach your granny to suck eggs but, thanks to an initiative promoting IT in the family, a Birmingham schoolboy has scooped a prize for helping his grandma become a computer whizz.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[UK introduces new rules for Online shoppers]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[From next month, internet shoppers will no longer have to pay customs duty on non-EU purchases worth up to £105, HM Revenue &amp; Customs has announced.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5303</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[One third of adults have no access to a computer says new reseach]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Over one-third (36%) of adults do not have access to a computer and over two-fifths (42%) lack access to the Internet.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5302</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Christmas to boost online retail sales by 15%]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Online retail sales are set to rise to £13.16 billion in the last quarter of 2008, representing a 15% rise year-on-year, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. 
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5299</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Government to put 60k funding into citizen-focussed new website ideas]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Central Government is to put £60,000 into 3rd party web developments following the 'Show Us A Better Way' competition.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5298</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Why the future is in your hands]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Sales of smartphones are expected to overtake those of laptops in the next 12 to 18 months as the mobile phone completes its transition from voice communications device to multimedia computer. ]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5296</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[NIACE Host Digital Inclusion Event]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[NIACE will host a Digital Inclusion Event on Thursday 27th November from 9:45 – 4pm at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham.
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  <title><![CDATA[Paul Murphy launches 'Delivering Digital Inclusion' Action Plan.]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A new high-profile Digital Champion will help promote the Government's Digital Inclusion agenda, the Minister for Digital Inclusion Paul Murphy has announced.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[DigiTV wins EC funding to deliver health care services via Digital TV]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[DigiTV has won EC funding to develop remote health and social care capability within its interactive digital TV technology, as part of a European consortium tasked with building and enhancing Telecare and Telehealth provision across Europe. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Internet use 'good for the brain' ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Areas activated by reading a book in the brain of an experienced web user 
For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests. ]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shortlist for the European Commission's 2008 European e-Inclusion Awards announced]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Thirty-five initiatives from public, private, charitable and community organisations across Europe have been short listed as finalists for the 2008 European e-Inclusion Awards, a European Commission initiative. ]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5199</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Entries to the European e-Inclusion Awards now closed - 469 submissions received.]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The e-Inclusion Awards have been established by the European Commission to raise awareness, encourage participation and recognise excellence and good practice in using ICT and digital technology to tackle social and digital exclusion across Europe.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Disabled and elderly excluded by new technology]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Charities are calling upon businesses, the IT industry and government to make technologies such as PCs, mobile phones and TVs more easily accessible and affordable for disabled people and the elderly.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5229</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[National Skills Academy for IT given the green light]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[The Government has today announced that the proposed National Skills Academy for IT will proceed to the next stage of development.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5207</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Digital comics help Birmingham Schools keep IT in the family]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[‘Keeping IT in the Family’ is a series of illustrated comic guides that aim to encourage families to be confident with, and use information technologies (IT); school children follow the story guidelines to teach family members how technology can be useful in everyday life.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5223</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Memorial site creates virtual poppy field ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[A virtual Field of Remembrance has been created to raise funds for charity and provide a new place for people to remember fallen service personnel.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Intel, Microsoft and An Post Join Forces to Promote ]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Dublin: October 1st 2008 - The launch of ‘Log On, Learn’  an initiative that provides computer training for older people, took place today at Castleknock Community College in Dublin.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Are you wired or tired? How to ease information overload]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Information overload is an all too familiar modern malady, and we can’t all have a personal assistant on hand to help out. But strategies do exist to help people deal with today’s constant information barrage, as the recent study ‘Being wired or being tired’ explains.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5195</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[UK universities aim to spearhead online education – globally]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[UK higher education is a world-class brand, encapsulating research and qualitative excellence.]]></description>
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  <link>http://www.citizensonline.org.uk/conline/news/display?contentId=5193</link>	
  <title><![CDATA[Venezuela splashes out on laptops]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[Venezuela will buy one million of the remodelled Classmate laptops 
Venezuela is ordering one million low cost laptops for its school children. ]]></description>
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