The Internet Celebrates 40th Birthday

An underwater version of the popular Google Street View service will start providing Internet users an exclusive photographic tour of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia - whilst it's been reported that a similar experience will...

The UK government is to call for Google's help in fighting the war on copyright infringement and online piracy. Secretary for culture, media and sport Jeremy Hunt will make the demand in a speech to the Royal Television Society...

The UK government has claimed that search engine giant Google must join it in its fight to curb online piracy. While addressing the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge Convention Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for...

Google has announced that it will battle anti-piracy bills in the UK and the US even if they are passed.Speaking to the media after Google’s Big Tent conference in London, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that...

Outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt has voiced his intentions to expand Google's presence in China, the single largest Internet market in the world.In an interview with the BBC, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said that it was...

UK internet service provider BT has announced the names of the areas which are currently leading its "Race to Infinity" initiative. The company launched the "Race to Infinity" scheme to encourage residents to vote for their...

Google and Facebook may soon face a new online privacy code proposed by UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. The new code of conduct will allow UK internet users greater redress over companies like Google and Facebook if they feel...

The Internet has changed the information landscape and, increasingly, individual users are finding there's no place to hide on the web - or on the street, come to that, as Google's Street View cars may come and sniff you out...

Google has uploaded a new cake shaped doodle on its search engine home page to celebrate its 12th anniversary today.The Mountain View, California-based internet search giant has taken special permission from the Visual Artists...

Search engine giant Google has finally had a headway with its Google Books project by striking a major book scanning deal with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Google will scan millions of ancient Italian books that are...

The Chinese government has denied any involvement in alleged hack attacks on Google and has responded to Hilary Clinton's own verbal attack on the People's Republic. An un-named official told the the government-run Xinhua news...

The acquittal, last week of Allan Elis, a bright software engineer who founded the popular Bit Torrent tracker Oink, highlighted the profound changes that are happening to the moral fabric of the Western world, a shift that...

The German Government has lodged an objection to the deal which will allow Google to continue to scan, and sell digitised copies of, many of the world's in-copyright books. A court will decide in October if a $125 million deal...

A report published by leading Internet research firm comScore asserts that the worldwide Internet usage figures had crossed the 1 Billion mark during December 2008 with the highest number of users coming from the Asia Pacific...

The Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, Andy Burnham, is set to announce a number of new proposals to protect younger members of the society from "harmful and offensive material" which can be easily found on the internet. It...