The next Google should stay in the box
Can the world take another Google coming along; some people think not and that any start up that shows the signs of having the potential to become the next Google should be nipped in the bud.
This is political vision not from just one location, but from around the world. It seems that the politicians and [...]
Will we ever see 200 Mbps?
When Virgin Media announced that, they are putting their 200 Mbps broadband service on trial in Ashford, Kent there must have been a rush of households looking to sign up.
But although the very thought of surfing the internet at speeds faster than anything available in the UK, does this speed actually get to the end [...]
ISP beats copyright cops to data
A Swedish ISP has decided to go against the flow and delete all records of the data that could be used to identify their customers, Tele 2 have made the decision because they say that it what their customers want.
However, with the new EU, law that requires ISP’s to store data for a minimum of [...]
Google sorry of Gmail problem
Millions of Gmail users found that they were unable to access their emails due to an outage that lasted up to three hours.
Users were left with no account access for emails or other Google services, but at around half past ten in the morning users attempting to log into their accounts were faced with a [...]
UK to read all texts and emails
The UK intelligence service must be finding things hard these days as they are turning their attentions to the general public, the governments listening post at GCHQ in Cheltenham want to monitor every single email, text message and web page viewed by everyone in the UK.
Not only that they want to keep these records on [...]
Groups worried about internet in the air
Religious groups are concerned that since the announcement from mobile broadband operator GoGo that they have agreements with several US based airlines to install their wireless network into the aircraft could mean unregulated access to porn sites.
Focus on the Family, are starting a campaign to try to prevent this from happening because they fear that [...]
Security flaws hit Firefox 3
At the time of writing there have been over fourteen million downloads of the new Firefox 3 which it has to be assumed most users have been happy with, but within hours of the now famous world record being achieved by Mozilla there are already some security issues.
But as this issue has not been resolved [...]
Music downloads free with broadband packages
Some of the major music companies have seen the light and started to talk with the UK ISP’s with a view of providing a free or low costing music download system for their subscribers. How this will be operated is not yet known, but there are several possibilities.
The music industry has two ways that could [...]
Addicted to social Networking
How would know if you are getting a bit too involved with social networking sites, which like Digg, Mixx and Stumbleupon all have ideas on how the news is spread and sorted.
But just in case you are not sure if you are addicted or not, check out the list by soshable.com is below:
When you hear [...]
AT&T may filter content
Following an announcement at the CES this week, it would seem that the telecommunications giant AT&T may be considering to filter internet content, this may initially seem a innocent decision, but really when you think about it, this could be considered as censoring, and until now virtually all ISP’s have not done this sort thing.
There [...]