Internet service providers BT and TalkTalk have received a boost in their efforts to take on the Digital Economy Act, with a judge ruiling that their judicial review has a “real prospect of success”.

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Officials from the Scottish government have made a request to UK communications minister Ed Vaizey to support their bid to create a top level domain for Scotland.

Fronting the bid is Alex Neil, Scottish infrastructure and investment secretary, who wrote... continue reading »

The Government, at last seeing sense, has announced that it will be dropping the site blocking provisions included in the new Digital Economy Act on the advice of telecommunications regulatory body Ofcom that the measures would not be “effective”.

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BT yesterday reported a significant leap in its pre-tax profit of some 20%, sending shares of the company up 4%.

The rise has been attributed to the recent surge in both uptake and demand for superfast broadband services offered by the firm,... continue reading »

A new law has been passed in the State of Missouri, US, which imposes a ban on students and teachers befriending each other over social networking sites such as Facebook.

Governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, put pen to paper on... continue reading »

Chrome, the web browser from search giant Google, has finally overtaken Mozilla’s Firefox within to take the title of second most popular browser in the UK market, as revealed by analytics service StatCounter.

Chrome, which now holds a market share... continue reading »

UK broadband provider Virgin Media have successfully tested the fastest broadband connection worldwide, achieving speeds that have not previously been recorded.

The test, which took place around Silicon Roundabout at Old Street, London, saw internet connections soar to some 240 times... continue reading »

The UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of three intelligence agencies here in the UK has today publically stated that it is beginning to find it difficult to retain its staff as they are all too often being lured away... continue reading »

Police are today investigating an Australian woman from Gellong, Victoria, after it was discovered that she had listed her two young children for sale on the auction site eBay, offering them to the highest bidder.

The woman, in her early 3... continue reading »

Microsoft have announced a new deal with Baidu, China’s leading search engine, to power and provide it with its English language results throughout mainland China, a service that Google had previously delivered for Baidu.

Google provided Baidu with its English... continue reading »