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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...

Seems like the world's governments are increasingly becoming more and more concerned about the challenges brought in by digital piracy. According to a senior minister in the UK Government, websites hosting or promoting ...

iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens says that our relationship with our stuff has spiraled out of control, in that that we typically buy things, use them for a short while, then discard and replace them with the next model. Wiens observes...

The BBC has been directed by the government to check the impact its web services are having on private competitors operating in the UK media market, The Guardian reports. UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, while praising the BBC...

Apple is planning on equipping future iPads and iPod Touches with front facing cameras to bring FaceTime video conferencing technology to the devices, according to a report on Boy Genius Report.The BBC News website has undergone...

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...

Andy Burnham, UK's Culture, Media and Sports Secretary, is backing plans to introduce Cinema-like ratings for websites, amongst a number of things which has attracted a number of comments (and even prompted Mike Butcher from...

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...

The website which was hosting the infamous project, “The Pirates of the Amazon”, a Firefox extension that allows users to illicitly download games, TV shows, movies, and songs from Amazon.com, has been taken down,...

The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is putting forward the idea of an industry policing body to take care of the "dark side" of the web. The MP Committee warned that many social networking websites...

Online gambling companies based outside of the European Economic Area are to be banned from advertising in the UK. The Gambling Act will be used to bar the advertising of over 1,000 websites.The Secretary of State for the...

From today, UK online centres across England will start to offer myguide to their customers. For those who think computers and the internet are too complicated, too expensive, just for the young or just not for them, it could be...

IT managers do not need to be convinced that security is important: they already know that it’s a business imperative. It’s the CEOs who need to be persuaded. As the 2004 edition of Ernst & Young’s annual Global Information...

The Liberal Party in Norway has backed the legalisation of the sharing of copyrighted material for personal use. It is the first mainstream European political party to adopt a pro-file-sharing stance.The Venstre, or Liberal...

The way in which online privacy is perceived in Japan compared to Britain is to be investigated for the first time in a research study led by De Montfort University Leicester (DMU). The research may help British businesses and...