Archive for September, 2009
Facebook At Heart of Murder Trial
A jealous husband killed his wife after she changed her status from ‘married’ to ‘single’ on her Facebook profile, a British court heard yesterday.
Brian Lewis had become resentful at the amount of time his common-law wife Hayley Jones, 26, spent on the social networking internet site.
He finally snapped in the early hours of March 12 this year, stabbed her and strangled her to death, the jury was told.
He telephoned 999 but fled the murder scene, the home he shared with Miss Jones and their four children. He later drove to a nearby police station and gave himself up to officers.
It emerged that Lewis, 31, left the children – aged three to ten – in the house to discover the lifeless body of their mother in the living room.
In Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday Lewis, of Phillipstown, New Tredegar, denied the murder of his partner. The jury was told that problems surfaced in their relationship shortly after Lewis lost his job.
Miss Jones, who had until then stayed at home to care for their children, went out and found work as a care assistant.
Prosecutor Mark Evans QC told the court that around the same time Miss
Jones had ‘started to expand her social horizons,’ adding: ‘She had begun spending a lot of time on the internet chat site Facebook.
‘Brian Lewis was to state in interview and to other people that she had been quite secretive about this. For example, preventing him from accessing the site and switching the computer off to prevent him from seeing any of the content.’
Ten days before her death, as their relationship deteriorated, Miss Jones changed her Facebook profile from ‘married’ to ‘single’. The lawyer continued: ‘She made it clear their relationship was over.
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iBurst Gives Away 40TB in October
iBurst is giving all of its customers free data allowance in October, and doubles the allowance for email billing subscribers
iBurst recently rolled out its Business and Operations Support Systems, named iBoss, a system which the company hopes will enhance its customer relationship management, product ordering, billing processes and financial management functions.
iBurst encountered a number of glitches as the new system went live in August which impacted on the quality of service experienced by the company’s subscribers.
Says Jannie van Zyl, CEO at iBurst: “We have certainly had a rough few weeks with the launch of our new iBoss system. We’d like to thank customers that were affected by the glitches for helping to us work out all the kinks in the system and for sticking with us during the rollout.”
iBurst has decided to give all its subscribers an extra 250MB of bandwidth for the month of October to ‘thank them for their loyalty throughout this time’. This is in addition to data usage which was typically written off when billing glitches hit.
iBurst is also giving away an extra 250MB of data to customers that register to receive their bills electronically during October. According to iBurst around 80% of all subscribers opt to receive their billing electronically.
This promotion means that iBurst will give away around 40 Terabytes of data in October.
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Guiness Poker
I have caught a marketing bug. Quite weird but hey. This advert, although very short caught my eye and I thought you should view it. It not only promotes a fun beer, but at the same time responsible drinking. I like it.
Who Broke Facebook?
Sigh. This post is more than a post depicting my annoyance more than informing you to anything. Yes you might have noticed that I like to lambast things that do not quite work how I want, such as MXit and my Nokia N78.
Well the next thing that has disappointed me is one of the great ways I keep in touch with everyone. Yes, you guessed it: Facebook. The stupid hunk of social media has gone wonky once again. Firstly, they have changed the layout of the inbox. Once again, most changes they seem to make don’t benefit the social platform in many ways, but still they go along with them. I like the new look and feel in terms of the new buttons, except now everything feels a bit big and almost childish, or it’s aimed at the older generation whose telescopes, oops I mean glasses, need to magnify things more than a microscope to look at a single atom. Everything just seems a bit squashed and not as tidy as before.
Look what you made me do! You made me divert off the lovely subject. How could you do that to someone who simply wants to provide you with only top class entertainment and such a deep love for writing absolute nonsense? Well, luckily I am back on track. So the main reason I am complaining about Facebook now is that my news feed is becoming decimated with horrid unwelcome little updates of four days ago. I don’t want to read what people did four days ago!? That kind of defeats the point of real-time updates does it not? It gets better. In the mix are there statuses from yesterday, 2 and 3 days ago, as well as some from about a week ago. This really doesn’t help me, and hogs all the space for the relevant news to come through.
