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We are hearing some wild claims from the US with regards to the re-growth of parts of the body which have either been cut off or died. Lee Spievak from the US has come forward with an amazing claim that using a special ?pixie dust? he was able to prompt his body to re-grow [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

News that Tesco are set to offer a revamped version of their music download service has opened up a debate about whether they can actually take a slice of the action from iTunes or is the venture doomed from the start?
While iTunes is by far and away the number one music download company in the [...]

Even though we all seem to take the internet for granted, there has been a massive increase in the speed and capacity of the UK internet system to quench the thirst of the UK consumer for more bandwidth and bigger and better services. The likes of YouTube and the recently launched BBC iPlayer have [...]

While Google has enjoyed unrivalled success for some years now there are signs that the inner workings of the company may not be as harmonious as many people had assumed. News that Douglas Merrill, Chief Information Officer at Google and Vice President of Engineering, is on his way to the record label EMI has [...]

While the term Software Escrow, or Source Code Escrow, may be a little unfamiliar to many people who are reading this blog, it actually plays a vital role in the smooth running of many businesses around the world. In simple terms, Software Escrow it used when a company licence a particular software package from [...]