Internet
European Union to investigate net-neutrality concerns
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April 20, 2011The European Union is to investigate whether internet service providers (ISPs) are providing fair access to online services. It may lead to new rules banning ISPs from restricting access to data-heavy services during peak periods. ISPs argue that traffic...
Ceop website form 'could have put children at risk'
April 11, 2011An investigation is under way after a web page - set up to protect children online - was found to be insecure. A member of the public found a form on the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre's website - to report alleged offenders - was unencrypted...
Internet pioneer Paul Baran passes away
March 29, 2011US scientist Paul Baran, whose work in the 1960s helped pave the way for the internet, has died aged 84. Mr Baran thought up the idea of making communication networks resilient to attack or traffic surges by splitting the data sent over them into chunks...
Online advertising breaks through £4bn barrier
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March 29, 2011The internet now accounts for a quarter of all advertising spending in the UK, according to figures. They show that the value of online advertising grew by 12.8% in 2010, breaking through the £4bn barrier. A study by the Internet Advertising Bureau...
Home wi-fi '30% slower' than fixed broadband
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March 10, 2011People relying on home wi-fi are getting significantly slower speeds than from their fixed broadband connection, research suggests. The study ran one million tests over 14,000 wi-fi connections in the UK, US, Spain and Italy. On average, the results...
Cuba welcomes new internet cable link with Venezuela
February 10, 2011Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world. The new connection...
AOL to buy Huffington Post in $315m media merger
February 07, 2011US internet firm AOL has agreed to a buyout of the Huffington Post online newspaper. The $315m (£222m) deal will create an internet media group with 270 million users, including 117 million in the US. The purchase price - $300m of which will...
'Anonymous' defends the use of web attacks
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January 28, 2011Web activist group Anonymous has criticised the arrest of its members claiming the web attacks they launched were a legitimate form of protest. Five men were arrested yesterday in connection with web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks...
Larry Page to become Google chief executive
January 21, 2011Google co-founder Larry Page is to become chief executive of the US internet search giant in April. He will take over from Eric Schmidt, who has been in the job for a decade and will become executive chairman. Google said Mr Schmidt would focus on...
The Russian use of internet: A virtual discourse shapes reality
January 12, 2011By Elena Chinyaeva If there is one factor to be singled out which influenced Russia in 2010, it is undoubtedly the role of the Internet in social and political life. In Russia, the worldwide web has become a platform for sharp political and social...