Viviane Reding, the EU Commissioner for Information society and media, said it loud and clear in her weekly video message. Europeans, including Brits, have the right to control how their personal information is used. She added...

The Government has said that new electronic waste disposal demands from Brussels may be too difficult for businesses to meet. It has asked for industry's view ahead of summer negotiations on electronic waste.The European...

With the AM3 platform finally launched, we would almost forget that the newest AM3 processors also work on AM2+ motherboards, which are in general more cost-effective than their bigger brothers. In other words, for those who...

News that Ebay was going to spin off popular VoIP service Skype in the first half of 2010 was widely seen as a positive step towards restoring Ebay hegemony. Like a couple who hastily got married while drunk in Las Vegas, the...

Semiconductor giant Intel has announced its first quarter income revenues for 2009 which have surpassed market expectations, prompting the company to declare that the worst of the recession was over. Profits reached $647 million...

Online retailer Amazon said that it will not allow Webwise, the behavioural advertising solution devised by BT and Phorm, to scan through its product pages to deliver targeted ads. In an email sent to a customer who questioned...

According to a recent research undertaken by the security firm McAfee, Spam emails are responsible for consuming up to 33 billion hours (kWh) of power in a year which incidentally is enough to power nearly 2.4 million homes. The...

Virgin media has announced that it will migrate all of its four million home broadband customers to Google, offering them more than 7GB storage together with the @virginmedia.com email for the first time. The deployment according...

Software Giant Microsoft is apparently planning to launch a sleeker, updated version of its almost anonymous personal media player, the Zune, and mount a credible challenge to Apple's iPod Touch. A few days ago, Engadget released...

Packard Bell has revived its dot netbook range by launching a couple of new models, which are merely rebadged Acer models without much to differentiate themselves from the rest. Acer owns Packard Bell (as well as Gateway and...

One of UK’s leading cultural institution, Tate galleries has tied up Apple iTunes to provide hundreds of its video and audio files available for download without charge on iTunes U, a section of the online store that...

Rumour mills have started buzzing around the possibility of eBay selling off Skype for a right price after John Donahoe, eBay’s chief executive, publicly stated that Skype is a “great standalone...

Privacy International, a leading UK based privacy consultancy group has decided to discontinue all advisory work it undertakes for private firms following allegations from Google regarding its impartiality and possible conflict...

The BBC it appears is not content with the billions received from its usual sources, it is now threatening mobile phone users with significant fines if they watch live TV on their handsets. This is quite a good wheeze from the...