IT giant Microsoft has released its new home PC security package, but with an unusual twist for the company – it is free.
Microsoft Security Essentials, as it is called, is the successor to the Windows Live OneCare service and is freely available from the company’s website without paying a fee. All the user needs is [...]
ICANN, the internet regulatory body is expected to be given more control over its own affairs and oversight on Wednesday when a meeting with US government officials goes ahead. A document is due to be signed on the matter, something the international community has been going after for quite a while.
The group is responsible for, [...]
Google’s plans to sign a deal with book copyright holders, in order to digitise books for browsing and purchase online, has been postponed after the US law system raised objections to it.
The idea of the project is to make the hundreds of thousands of books covered by the deal available to users online, with sale [...]
The UK government intends to introduce a tax on all people who own a fixed telephone line in order to fund the expansion of the country’s high speed internet infrastructure.
Plans unveiled in front of the BCS Chartered Institute for IT by the Minister for Digital Britain mean that everyone who has a fixed phone line [...]
You’ve probably seen the offers in your local mobile phone store – a free laptop or netbook with any mobile broadband package. “Great,” you think, “I can access the net wherever I am!” But is mobile broadband all it is cracked up to be?
A Which? survey says that generally, no they aren’t. Advertised speeds are [...]
You may not have heard of ‘net neutrality’ before but it is something which may well shape the future of the internet, in particular the means by which it is supported and managed.
For a few years now, there has been a big debate rumbling about who should be footing the bill for the ever-increasing levels [...]
The news coming out of Silicon Valley right now is positive it would seem, as a new crop of start-ups appear while the bigger players return to their big-money aquisitions.
With the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, claiming that the recession in the USA is more or less over and that the country [...]
A man who killed his partner of 13 years over an update of her relationship status on social website Facebook has been sentenced to a minimum of 14 years of a life term in prison.
Brian Lewis repeatedly stabbed and then strangled Hayley Jones after a row, in which he said he didn’t intend to kill [...]
We’ve all been really annoyed when a web page is loading at a snail’s pace, or you try to watch a video and all you get is the ‘Buffering…’ animation every few frames. Maybe you’ve even said “this would be faster by carrier pigeon” (ok, probably not, but I know I have). Well, now someone [...]
The Onion, the reputably disreputable news source who can turn anything into satire, have been taken seriously. The horror!
Adding to a growing list of failures by mainstream (and non-comedic) news reporting establishments, a Bangladeshi paper reported that Neil Armstrong had finally admitted to the moon landings being faked. Except they didn’t quite get round to [...]
