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The power of the Internet - Ukraine vs. England to be shown exclusively online

5 October 2009, 11:03

Saturday's World Cup qualifier to become the first England game unavailable on TV.

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Pay for broadband per megabyte says Verizon CTO

30 September 2009, 13:21

Verizon CTO, Dick Lynch, has said in the future he hopes people will have to pay for every megabyte of data they use.

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Google's Wave to splash down on testers

30 September 2009, 10:32

100,000 Internet surfers will be lucky enough to test out Google's new collaborative desktop service, Google Wave, as of tomorrow.

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Apple App Store downloads go exponential

28 September 2009, 15:15

It look nine months to get to one billion downloads, but only five more months to get to two.

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Twitter now worth a cool billion

25 September 2009, 13:05

New round of funding reportedly values the micro blogging service at a billion dollars.

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US government unveils net neutrality initiative

22 September 2009, 12:41

Nation Broadband Plan designed to ensure open Internet access, but not everyone’s a supporter.

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Google teams up with instant book printer

18 September 2009, 08:43

The firm’s extensive index of scanned books can now be printed on the spot.

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Microsoft and Yahoo in talks with EU over search deal

17 September 2009, 12:40

Surely Microsoft never thought the deal would get past Europe without a fight.

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Google's free Wi-Fi tried and tested

16 September 2009, 18:31

One person's experience of Google's free Wi-Fi offering for a whole town.

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Bing and Google both releases new features

15 September 2009, 12:10

The search engine war intensifies as Microsoft and Google both try to demonstrate why theirs is best.

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Facebook Lite to serve bandwidth-starved social networkers

11 September 2009, 15:52

Facebook has launched a slimmed-down version of its site for users with slow internet connections.

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EU says most technology e-tailers fall short

9 September 2009, 14:58

Europe pokes its nose into the continent’s biggest consumer electronics e-tailers and finds them wanting.

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Spotify launches on iPhone and Android

7 September 2009, 10:52

Streaming music service comes to mobile phones, but only if you have a premium account.

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Amazon gets legal on Google Books

3 September 2009, 12:17

The much disputed Google Books settlement receives another blow as Amazon files a formal objection.

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Police discover Internet - launch e-crime strategy

2 September 2009, 13:35

England’s police association lays out its approach to online crime, but it’s immediately condemned as too little, too late.

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Friday quirky: national press fooled by fake website

28 August 2009, 14:50

Clever hoax reported as fact by The Guardian and The Independent.

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What we're downloading from P2P: 54m for Heroes

28 August 2009, 11:13

The top-10 lists for TV programs and films. Makes for interesting reading.

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Facebook addresses privacy concerns, plans to tighten control over user information

27 August 2009, 17:07

Following a review by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Facebook has announced plans to improve privacy.

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Wikipedia to clamp down on articles relating to living people

25 August 2009, 11:33

A new Wikipedia feature will require an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people.

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McAfee names Katie Price as Britain's "most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace"

25 August 2009, 10:44

Googling for Katie Price? McAfee warns that one in six results could contain malware designed to infect your PC.

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Government can’t wait to start punishing file-sharers

25 August 2009, 10:14

Decides 2012 is too long to wait to start obliging ISPs to act on illegal peer-to-peer activity.

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Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! gang up on Google

21 August 2009, 11:31

The ramifications of Google’s settlement with US authors and publishers for Google Books continue.

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EU proposes Internet lessons

20 August 2009, 13:49

European bureaucracy reckons it’s important that we know how to use the Internet...

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MySpace to buy social music service iLike

18 August 2009, 11:15

Online social media competition hots up further as MySpace reciprocates recent Facebook acquisition.

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New web browser backed by Netscape founder

14 August 2009, 15:12

There are also signs that the browser could be made in cooperation with Facebook.

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Twitter used as command channel for botnet

14 August 2009, 14:05

A new botnet spreads itself by using twitter updates containing downloads or executables.

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Next-gen Google gets a caffeine rush

11 August 2009, 10:18

Google has unveiled a next-generation architecture for its hugely-popular search engine.

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Facebook acquires FriendFeed

11 August 2009, 09:45

The social media world consolidates as message and file aggregator is swallowed up by social networking giant.

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Gloggy arrives as the micro-blogging alternative to Twitter

7 August 2009, 14:25

Wait for the leading micro-blogging site to suffer a denial-of-service attack, then launch one of your own? Sounds a good idea.

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Twitter attack designed to silence one blogger?

7 August 2009, 11:28

The denial of service attack that affected social media sites was reportedly targeting a single person.

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Twitter goes down – world copes

6 August 2009, 16:54

Internet phenomenon du jour Twitter suffered a denial-of-service attack today and was down for an hour or so.

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News Corp to charge for all news websites

6 August 2009, 11:14

After announcing a full-year net loss of $3.4 billion, Rupert Murdoch decides things need to change online.

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Microsoft launches free UK TV service

30 July 2009, 10:27

MSN Video Player beta will be ad funded and stream older TV programmes from the BBC.

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