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While the Microsoft / Yahoo! bid story seems to have been rolling for months it seems that we may actually be approaching the business end of the story. The Microsoft board met yesterday to agree their options and strategy for the future and while there was no announcement yesterday, many analysts on Wall Street [...]

While it has long been suspected that ISP were able to spy on their customers and collect data about their internet usage, it seems that a number of surfers around the world have actually caught their ISPs in the act. So what are the regulations?
The regulations for internet usage are very much stacked in [...]

In a move which should eventually see all trial cases online going back to 1674, a group of universities have got together to set up a new online Old Bailey service using official documentation. Sheffield, Hertfordshire and the Open University have joined forces in a ground breaking move which will save time and expense [...]

Over the last 20 years we have heard government after government complain that the young of today were spending too much time on their computers. Research showed that people were becoming fatter and fatter and family time around the table has all but disappeared. It seems that everything from the desktop to the [...]

As if they have not had enough of an impact upon the mobile phone market, LG are back with the long awaited next instalment from the LG Black Label series ? the Secret. While it was the LG Shine which put the company back on the map, the LG Secret is set to open [...]

As the market for downloading content becomes more and more competitive we are seeing a number of battle lines being drawn. Tesco have made their play for the download music market, aiming to take substantial share from leader iTunes, but now iTunes have hit back via a deal with ITV. So what is [...]

It seems so long ago that Microsoft fired the first shot in what is expected to be a major war of words with search engine competitor Yahoo!, a company who has been struggling of late. The multi-billion dollar offer from Microsoft had been expected a couple of years ago when Google were flying high [...]

We recently heard news that Police in Manchester have become one of the first to set-up a page on social networking site Facebook, with the intention of catching more criminals and fighting crime. However, there seems to be a growing feeling that there are risks with this approach with some not sure that [...]

Another day another report which suggests that the UK broadband market is a not quite as fast as advertised!
Advice site Broadband Expert has issued the results of their recent speed test survey which shows that on average UK broadband users are only receiving 48% of the speeds which are advertised. While this damning report [...]

In a move which is sure to upset a vast number of internet users, PayPal has announced that they will not allow users to access their services using old version of IE or the Firefox Browser. They claim that the browsers that they are banning are ?unsafe? and do not offer sufficient protection against [...]