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- Apr 27, 2009
- Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for secu...
- Apr 17, 2009
- Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.
Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs.
It is centred on the internet and does aw...
- Apr 17, 2009
- Online auction site eBay is planning to spin off internet call service provider Skype and list shares in the firm in the first half of 2010.
EBay said Skype was a "great stand-alone" firm but had "limited synergies" with the onli...
- Apr 17, 2009
- UK copyright laws "needlessly criminalise" music fans and need to be updated, a consumer watchdog says.
UK laws that make it a copyright violation to copy a CD that you own onto a computer or iPod should be changed, says Consumer Focus.
T...
- Apr 17, 2009
- The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark.
The new high for malicious programs was revealed by security firm Symantec in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.
The vast maj...
- Apr 17, 2009
- A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes.
The Carbon Footprint of e-mail Spam report estimated that 62 trillion spam emails are sent globally every...
- Apr 17, 2009
- A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright...
- Mar 17, 2009
- A small British company has been named Best in Show at the South by Southwest Web Awards, in Austin, Texas.
Six to Start won the top prize for We Tell Stories, an interactive approach to retelling literary classics and redefining modern online...
- Mar 17, 2009
- Computer manufacturer Dell has launched, what it calls, is the world's thinnest laptop.
The Adamo weighs 1.8kg and is 1.64cm thick, making it thinner, but heavier, than Apple's MacBook Air.
A spokesman for Dell told the BBC that the Adamo was a &qu...
- Mar 17, 2009
- India says it is planning to produce a low cost gadget intended for use by school children and students.
The storage device has been developed as part of a broader national plan to update the technology used by Indian colleges and schools.
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