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European Union bosses look set to ditch restrictive US-led initiatives on copyright law in a drive to get cultural content including a million hours of BBC TV programmes onto the Internet. Neelie Kroes, the European Commission...

Skype will be offering free access to public Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK during the upcoming first ever Internet Week Europe. The first ever Internet Week Europe, to be held from 8 November to 12 November, will celebrate...

A small Internet service provider (ISP) in Cornwall has welcomed BT’s plan to connect the area with its fibre optic broadband. Eclipse Internet, a small business in Cornwall, has claimed that the fibre optic broadband...

Europe has proposed an Internet Treaty to protect the net from political interference which threatens to break it up.The draft international law has been compared to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which sought to prevent space...

A Chinese man has been given a suspended jail sentence after selling his son on the internet for £1,800. The 22-year-old man, named as Mr Lu, was lumped with lone-parenting duties after he split up with the mother of his...

A recent poll conducted for the BBC World Service has revealed that more than 4 out of 5 people in the world believe that accessing the internet is their fundamental right, indicating that internet is fast becoming a prerequisite...

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...

UK internet users will not be disconnected from the internet for illegal file sharing without a court's involvement, a Government minister has pledged. Culture minister Ben Bradshaw has told MPs that there would be a "strict"...

The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced that the government is devising strategies to implement “technical measures” to clamp down on the most persistent illegal files sharers over the web.  The UK...

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...

Research carried out by Yougov on behalf of 118118 showed that Brits have become seriously addicted to the Internet and some consider it as their top hobby, rivalling even faiths and religions.The poll, which probed a sample of...

The measures are just some of the recommendations of a report by child psychologist and television personality Dr Tanya Byron which was commissioned by the Government.Education minister Ed Balls said that the Government was...

The groundbreaking free and open-source internet TV application Miro launched version 1.0 yesterday.The public release of Miro marks a major milestone for the application which has been growing rapidly during its beta period...

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...