Virgin Media in trouble over broadband speeds

July 2, 2008

BT has made a complaint to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service. BT has made the complaint over Virgin Media's "Hate to Wait" advertisement campaign which ran in the national media. The campaign showed ...

Sony hope for growth in emerging markets

June 28, 2008

Sony are hoping that plans to expand into emerging markets will revive their fortunes. This large growth push follows several years of job cuts. The Japanese electronics firm has set out plans to regain its lead in the TV market, lower ...

Website naming rules may change

June 26, 2008

The rules which govern domain naming could be changed if the proposals to relax the rules go through. At the moment websites can only use certain suffixes at the end of internet addresses, such as ".com", ".co.uk" or ".org". The regulator of ...

Software firms must compensate for e-fraud

June 19, 2008

A Parliamentary group has said that software firms should be forced to pay compensation if their customers are victims of e-fraud because of security flaws. The Lords Science and Technology Committee said the new rules are needed in order to stop ...

Google backs plans that track animal and rare diseases

June 17, 2008

Google are one of the companies backing the project and have launched a ‘predict and prevent' programme which aims to set up a network for forecasting emerging threats ‘before they become local, regional, or global crisis.' Scientists are now hoping to ...

Road runner – Fastest computer in the world

June 13, 2008

The world's fastest computer has been revealed. The Roadrunner, which cost £50million, can do 1,000 trillion calculations a second. The machine has been developed by Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico and IBM and will be used on nuclear weapons work. ...

Virgin Media sends out warning to illegal downloaders

June 12, 2008

Virgin Media internet users who are building up libraries of illegal music or illegally sharing them could soon be prosecuted. As of next week, Virgin Media will be sending out thousands of letters to homes where music is either being illegally ...

BT could be prosecuted for ad trial

June 11, 2008

BT's trials of ad serving technology were "illegal" and they should face prosecution, this is the view of Dr Richard Clayton who is a leading computer security researcher. His comments have been made after a BT internal report was leaked. The details ...

Google to get a new home on NASA land

June 10, 2008

Google has signed a 40 year lease agreement to build on a 1.2m square foot site owned by NASA at the Ames Research Centre in Mountain View. Google are to build a massive high-tech campus on the land. They have said ...

Microsoft team up with Hewlett Packard to fight Google

June 5, 2008

Microsoft has announced a deal with the world's largest PC manufacturer Hewlett Packard. This will undoubtedly strengthen Microsofts battle with Google in the internet search market. Microsofts search engine Windows Live Search will be installed as the default search in the ...