An interesting legal case has popped out of the woodwork in the US, where a customer of Comcast, the North American cable company, has sued its ISP division for allegedly throttling P2P data traffic.The lawsuit claims that...

A 19-year-old Swedish programming genius claims that, although he coded up the utilities to perform a number of system hacks, he didn't actually carry them out.The Uppsala-based teenager's claims come after he was found guilty...

After O2, WiFi Hotspot provider, The Cloud, has signed an agreement with Orange to provide access to its Hotspots. This would bring Orange's hotspot total to more than 10,000 overnight and provides the mobile phone provider...

Tier-3 has warned companies using Internet telephony (VOIP) of the security risk the technology poses; the warning comes after Peter Cox demonstrated how easy it was to hack into a VoIP conversation. Peter Cox, the ex-CTO of...

The minister for Competitiveness, Stephen Timms, together with other ministers will today hold an industry-wide meeting over how to tackle the growing gap between UK and other nations when it comes to ultra fast internet...

The fourth largest Broadband Company in UK has been moving its one million email customers to Google Mail and other services. This would help Sky reduce cost associated with providing peripheral features like online webspace and...

Argos is selling the Thomson DT16300-16 Personal Video Recorder for a mere £79.99 but you will have to collect in a store near you.This PVR is ladden with nice features like a huge 160GB hard disk drive and twin recording...

Employers must curb their demands for fixed amounts of experience from job applicants to avoid falling foul of discrimination legislation, an employment law specialist has warned.The caution comes after a secretary won a case...

Google's purchase of advertising giant DoubleClick has been thrown into doubt by the European Commission, which has announced that it will launch an in-depth investigation into the deal on competition grounds.The decision will be...

Government bodies have sacked 130 people and disciplined 1,700 over IT abuses in the past three years, according to figures uncovered by The Observer newspaper.Misuse of computers ranged from excessive use of social networking...

The comedy group Train of Thought has a video which pretty much encapsulates the Facebook experience. Sometimes I truly wonder about this site, which makes middle-aged professionals act like college sophomores.Whatever, maybe...

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Research in Motion, the maker of Blackberry smartphones, is rumoured to be working on a touchscreen version of its Blackberry phone. Expected to be released in Q1 2008, the Blackberry 9000 will come without a proper keyboard and...

The Independent via Thinkbroadband.com reports that Talktalk, the broadband offshoot of Carphone Warehouse, is facing some severe capacity constraints in some parts of UK. Talktalk, which is famous for saying that Broadband...

Right-wing French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has given his accord to allow web firms to monitor what data their customers will be shuttling to and fro, essentially eaves-dropping on every single byte transmitted. He hailed the...

In an interview given to Cnet, ex-Danger and now, Google's director of Mobile Platforms, Andy Rubin expanded over the plans of Google to dominate the world of mobile phones, the same way Windows conquered the desktop. Rubin also...

F-Secure warns computer users of an upsurge in attacks against banking sites, targeting personal user data. These attacks use a new generation of malicious codes in a technique called "Man in the Browser". ...

If there's a cheap medium that can supply high quality content for pennies, it is the DVD which proves that it is really versatile. IBM has made an application for a "System and method of providing advertisements during DVD...

A poll conducted by NetBenefit has revealed that 74% of respondents are concerned that adding new technologies to their websites will slow down performance but over half of those polled (52%) are not changing their hosting...

Bloggers at exo-blog are reporting a surprising performance gain after upgrading to Windows XP SP3. This bodes well for an Operating system that has already been written off by Microsoft. In a controlled environment - using a...

Paul Allen, editor of Computeractive magazine, addressed the Westminster eForum on “delivering next generation broadband”. He was invited to present to an audience of MPs, analysts and key stakeholders in the...

PC Advisor reports that the iPhone might not live up its hype of being the ultimate gift in the build up to Christmas. According to a research by GfK NOP, only 2 percent of interviewed people in a sample survey said that they...