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LulzSec’s spokesman and hacktivist “Topiary” arrested
July 28, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old founder of the infamous hacker group LulzSec. The suspect supposedly goes by the Internet handle "Topiary" took part in a...
London Olympics 2012: Air quality row may hit games
June 09, 2011The UK is set to miss EU targets on air quality, government documents say - which may mean a legal row just before the London Olympic Games. The targets should be met by 2015. But the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has admitted...
UK rural broadband plans move on
May 30, 2011Homes in Devon, Somerset, Norfolk and Wiltshire will get super-fast broadband, the government has said. Making sure rural areas have fast net services is part of a wider drive to make the UK the best place for broadband by 2015. Each county will receive...
Cookie law deferred for one year
May 25, 2011UK websites are being given one year to comply with EU cookie laws, the Information Commissioner's Office has said. The UK government also sought to reassure the industry that there would be "no overnight changes". The EU's Privacy and Communications...
Mobile phone users 'overpaying by £200' per year
April 11, 2011Three-quarters of mobile phone subscribers are wasting an average of nearly £200 a year because they are on the wrong contract, research suggests. People over-estimating how many minutes they would spend on the phone was the main reason, with most...
Facebook more popular than porn for UK users
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March 19, 2011Social networking sites are more popular with UK internet users than pornographic ones, according to new figures from Experian Hitwise. The internet research company says that in January sites like Facebook accounted for 12.46% of all online traffic...
Postie is UK cyber security champ
March 07, 2011A postman from Wakefield has been crowned Britain's first cyber security champion. Dan Summers won a government-backed competition to find amateur experts in the field. The scheme was designed to promote awareness of jobs in IT security, in the face...
UK tech to aid private space shot
January 10, 2011UK technology could aid a US company's ambitions to send spacecraft beyond low-Earth orbit. Bigelow Aerospace's plans include telescopes that could be sent into deep space. The UK's Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) has signed a memorandum of understanding...
A million UK children 'lack access to computers'
December 28, 2010More than a million school children in the UK still lack access to a computer at home, research suggests. And almost 2m are unable to go online at home, according to leading digital education charity, the E-Learning Foundation. It also claims those...
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf warns over address changes
November 12, 2010The internet could face years of instability as it moves to a new addressing system, one of the network's original architects has warned. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke as the UK was urged to begin using the new addressing system...