- Nov 21, 2008
- Surfing the internet, playing games and hanging out on social networks are important for teen development, a large study of online use has revealed.The report counters the stereotypical view held by many parents and teachers that such activity is a w...
- Nov 20, 2008
- The BBC is to begin showing all its programmes live over the internet from next week, raising questions about the long-term viability of the licence fee.Critics said that although viewers would still need to buy a licence to watch programmes on their...
- Nov 20, 2008
- A US woman has gone on trial accused of using a fictional online personality to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a boy on the MySpace website to befriend Megan Meier, who hanged herself after their v...
- Nov 19, 2008
- Emboldened by its first mission to the Moon, India is to take on a target closer to Earth: Google.The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Ear...
- Nov 19, 2008
- After years of banning access to blogs, YouTube and Facebook, it seems the federal government has figured out that maybe that Internet thing isn't so bad after all.In fact, it might even be useful.At the annual Government in Technology conference, fe...
- Nov 18, 2008
- Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang is to step down as CEO of the company, a move that's been linked to his failure to strike a deal with Google and resisting Microsoft's attempts to buy the company.Once a successor is found, Yang, who became CEO in June 2007...
- Nov 17, 2008
- A new tool from the company behind Firefox performs tasks based on past preferences and commands typed in plain EnglishA marketing manager e-mails a sales rep telling him to go to a conference in Berlin. The rep, while reading the e-mail, types in &q...
- Nov 17, 2008
- Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for just £80, according to an online safety group.The details packaged and sold online include names, addresses, passport numbers and confidential financial data such as credit card numbers...
- Nov 13, 2008
- Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.The analysis suggests tha...
- Nov 13, 2008
- The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail.Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Po...
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