Tag: internet
French piracy web-banning scheme coming to the UK?
The lunatic French idea of disconnecting the web connections of those caught downloading pirated material could be coming to the UK.
John Kennedy of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, told Billboard he’s hoping UK ISPs will take voluntary action to kerb file sharing…
France plans to cut off pirates' internet access
There will be computers burning in France over this.
New French rabble-rousing President Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed plans to ban those found guilty of sharing copyrighted files from using the internet.
There will be a “three strikes…
Start collecting tins of Heinz, the internet apocalypse is hitting 2010!
At the rate most internet users are going, joining up to social networking site upon social networking site, spamming the internet with their emo thoughts and feelings, videos and photos, the news that the internet could be ‘all full up’ by 2010 seems a little optimistic.
It’s all to blame on increased internet traffic, according to analysts Nemertes Rsearch Group, who have…
AOL attempts to claw back UK market with new mobile portal home
Most of our readers can remember the day when AOL ruled the search engine kingdom, long before the days of Google. They’re attempting to claw back some of their UK readers, by launching AOL mobile, a mobile internet portal which visually optimises content for handsets.
The new portal shows content using ‘dynamic mobile transcoding technology’, giving you access to ‘web surf’…
Delectable rumour of the day: Archos to launch 3G PMP in 2008?
We love Archos PMPs here at Tech Digest, with other PMP manufacturers not quite *getting* portable multimedia devices quite like the French company.
Exciting news has reached us via PMP Today, that a 3G model will be released come 2008, allowing for high-speed web browsing…
Shiny Video Preview: Babel TV PVR and pared down PC
Alex recently met with Peter Dawe, of DaweVision, who’ve created Babel TV, which we’ve mentioned a few times on Tech Digest already. Essentially it’s a simple plug-in and play box, allowing you to watch…
Prince swears purple murder against The Pirate Bay, sues illegal site in three different countries
Having worked his purple magic on YouTube and asked for over 2,000 unauthorised videos to be removed, Prince is now working down his hit list, by targeting The Pirate Bay next.
We heard a few months ago the short purple-clad one had a bee in his Raspberry Beret bonnet about all his music videos being illegally shared on sites such as these, and even Prince-themed products on eBay. Needless to say, he doesn’t just dish out idle threats, that Prince character.
Prince is showing he can walk the walk as well as talk the talk, and has prepared a lawsuit against The Pirate Bay, the renowned…
Surprise, surprise: your boss doesn't want you on iTunes, Facebook and YouTube, sez McAfee
McAfee, the little do-gooder sprites which keep your PC bathed in a healthy glow, has released some interesting findings today spilling all the URLs your bosses don’t want you to be accessing at work. And my, are they…well, predicatable.
Music downloading sites and online dating sites trump the list of websites IT Managers are constantly having to…
Mahalo's Daily with Veronica Belmont launches and promptly parodies internet video memes
Veronica Belmont, the lovely lady formerly of the Buzz Out Loud videos at CNet, has just made her muchly-hyped video debut at Mahalo, Jason Calacanis’s search engine we wrote about several months back.
You may recognise her from her videos with CNet, or for being Engadget’s Ryan Block’s girlfriend, but…
Vinton Cerf, founding father of the internet, wants to send his baby into space
Say hello to Vinton Cerf, everyone. This old geezer claims he invented the internet, and is now throwing a strop due to earthlings being the only lifeform able to access the internet – he’s now thinking outside the box world and into the universe.
Cerf recently spoke at a conference in Seoul, South Korea, and expressed his desire for the world wide web to be accessible in space. He’s already started working with a bunch of boffins, namely engineers at a Jet Populsion Laboratory, creating…
