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OnLive Cloud Gaming Platform Launching June 17th 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:23 GMT

OnLive, a "cloud" video game service that challenges the dominance of traditional games consoles, said it would launch in the US in June.

34 Per Cent of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:45 GMT

A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren't very active.

Internet is Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:26 GMT

The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

10 Year Old Mozilla Public License to be Updated

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:22 GMT

The 10-year-old Mozilla Public License will be updated by the end of 2010.

Patent Attack Launched Against Apple

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:09 GMT

Apple, Research in Motion, and a gaggle of other deep-pocket firms have been slapped with a wide-ranging patent infringment suit by an obscure Texas firm.

Retweet Has Been Sold

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:53 GMT

Retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 45 bids in total, but it appears that the winning party came in with a "buy it now" offer for $48,000 more than the current bid to take ownership of the Tweetmeme competitor.

New Realism to the Internet Economy

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:05 GMT

On 10 March 2000, the Nasdaq index of leading technology shares spiked, bursting the Dotcom bubble

Facebook Economy Continues to Grow

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:58 GMT

Investors are pumping more and more money into web services that are heavily reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world's most popular social network?

HIgh Number of Complaints For Government Websites

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:22 GMT

Government websites look set to be hit hardest by plans to strengthen digital marketing regulation.

Placebook to Replace Facebook?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:46 GMT

Testifying before a congressional hearing in late February, Mike Altschul with the Wireless Association was blunt: Federal mobile phone privacy policy is undefined and the privacy guidelines for location-based services written in 2008 are obsolete.

Survey suggests internet is 'a fundamental right'

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:20 GMT

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

Networks of the future predicted to mimic living ecosystems

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:29 GMT

The Internet of the future is an intelligent network capable of proactively acting on our needs, following us wherever we go, helping provide focused health care and possibly ushering in a new energy paradigm.

Net neutrality enforcement by Ofcom

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:21 GMT

BBC tech boss says web is 'primary outlet for future Beeb content'. What's that now?

Google Street View causes EU concern

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:56 GMT

Google is in hot water in Europe once again over Street View map photos.

Facebook bug causes messages to misfire

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:12 GMT

An unknown number of Facebook users had their messages sent to the wrong people for a while on Wednesday after a computer problem, the social-networking company said Thursday.

Google offers search ranking explanation

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:07 GMT

Google has countered the investigation by the European Commission into its business practices by offering a general explanation of how it ranks its search results.

IE6 gets farewell wake from web designers

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:05 GMT

A web design firm will hold a tongue-in-cheek funeral for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on March 4 to celebrate the aged browser's decline. The design company, Aten Design Group, announced IE6's funeral on Monday with a site, ie6funeral.com, that offered a short obituary and an invitation to a wake.

British Library shows concerns over UK web heritage

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:13 GMT

The UK's online heritage could be lost forever if the government does not grant a "right to archive", a group of leading libraries has said.

Adobe patches vulnerabilities in Reader and Flash

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:01 GMT

Adobe has patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows utility used to download the company's two most popular products, Adobe Reader and Flash Player.

Alleged anticompetitive behaviour puts Google under investig

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:15 GMT

Google is under investigation for alleged anticompetitive practices following complaints filed to the European Commission by three competitors, according to a Google blog post.

82 percent rise for Twitter and Facebook

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:14 GMT

We're spending a lot more time tweeting and Facebooking, says Nielsen.

Search engines lose shares in China

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09 GMT

Google lost a slice of its search share in China to rival Baidu.com last year, as Yahoo also slipped and Bing proved unpopular in the country, according to a local consultancy.

Developing world to be hit hard by rise in e-waste

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:07 GMT

Waste from discarded electronics will rise dramatically in the developing world within a decade, with computer waste in India alone to grow by 500 percent from 2007 levels by 2020, a U.N. study released Monday said.

Cyber attack denied by Chinese universities

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:24 GMT

Two academic institutions in China where computers were reportedly linked to cyberattacks on Google and other companies have denied involvement in the hack, Chinese state media said Sunday.

Web spying accusations mage against US school

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00 GMT

Parents in the US have accused a school of spying on children by remotely activating webcams on laptops.

Chinese University named as apparent source of Google attack

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:17 GMT

One of two Chinese academic institutions identified in a New York Times report as the apparent source of the recent attacks against Google, has also been linked to a hacker who may have been involved with the takedown of whitehouse.gov in 2001.

Facebook Zero for mobile web soon

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:20 GMT

If Facebook wants to reach its first billion users as its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, envisions, the world's biggest social networking website will have to massively expand its user base beyond those who have a computer, a nice smartphone or a decent internet connection.

Massive hack attacks 75,000 PC's

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:03 GMT

A massive botnet affecting at least 75,000 computers at 2,500 companies and government agencies worldwide has been unearthed by security researchers at NetWitness Corp.

What Google could learn from Buzz backlash

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:31 GMT

Google may have reached the limits of what it can learn from dog food.

Old Firefox vulnerabilities patched

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:09 GMT

Mozilla patched five vulnerabilities, three of them critical, in older editions of Firefox and in the process extended the support life of Firefox 3.0 by at least one more month. The newest Mozilla browser, Firefox 3.6, already contains the patches.