Apple’s iPod Nano spark fears as ‘defective batteries’ overheat

August 21, 2008

New safety fears over the Apple iPod Nano music player were revealed when it emerged two small fires had been caused, possibly by a defect with the players' battery. Both incidents happened in Japan. A news paper was scorched in one of ...

Google issue apology after email crash affects millions

August 14, 2008

Google have been forced to make a groveling apology to millions of users of its email service, Gmail. The system went down for several hours. The glitch in the Gmail contacts system locked users out of their email accounts. The news ...

Tiscali drops profit forecasts

August 11, 2008

The internet service provider (ISP), Tiscali had reduced its profit and revenue forecasts for the year. The ISP has also said it would review its business plan for the fourth quarter. They admitted they lost 37,000 broadband customers over the ...

Yahoo! bosses under renewed pressure

August 8, 2008

As opposition to the bosses at the internet firm Yahoo! has been discovered to be greater than first thought, the pressure has increased once again for the firm. The opposition was revealed at the recent AGM. Shareholder voted had to be ...

Virgin Media plan to exit corporate telecoms

August 7, 2008

Virgin Media has signaled their plans to exit the corporate telecoms market. Chief executive Neil Berkett wants to concentrate on encouraging more cable TV and broadband customers to join. If sold the division, which hooks small businesses up to local authority ...

HP, Intel and Yahoo! team up for cloud project

August 1, 2008

Hardware company HP is teaming up with chip manufacturers and internet firm Yahoo! to create research centres for cloud computing. Cloud computing gives online storage and offers a range of new services. To begin with six data centres will be made available ...

Internet providers in music pirates deal

July 24, 2008

A plan has been made between the music industry and six of the UK's biggest internet service providers (ISP's) to combat piracy online. Letters will be sent to hundreds of internet users who are suspected of illegally sharing music, in the ...

BT’s super-fast broadband plans

July 15, 2008

BT, the UK telecoms provider, have announced plans to have "super fast" broadband in as many as 10 million homes by 2012. BT are proposing a £ 1.5 billion investment in the fibre-optic based technology, which would provide top internet speeds ...

Sainsburys website glitch

July 11, 2008

Giant supermarket chain Sainsburys had to suspend its online store on Thursday because of a problem with its internet service provider. The site, which is now back in working order, was closed after glitches with Sainsburys internet services provider Cable & ...

Google forced to hand over records of YouTube users

July 5, 2008

A ruling by a US court has ordered Google, who owns YouTube, to hand over details of what video's are being watched, IP addresses and usernames, to Viacom which want the information to prove that the site is showing thousands ...

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