Tag: internet
Britain gets .UK domain name
Businesses and individuals can register .UK domain names from today. Web registrar Nominet announced the launch with the world's largest welcome sign unveiled at London's Heathrow Airport. Nominet said that QI host Stephen Fry was the first person to launch…
Are eBay users still at risk?
Online marketplace eBay announced this week that it had been the victim of a cyberattack. The Californian-based company, which has 128 million active users, revealed on Wednesday that a database had been hacked between late February and early March this…
ASA orders EE to drop 'most reliable broadband' claim
Mobile operator EE must remove the claim that it offers "Britain's most reliable broadband" from its marketing, after the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from rival BT that the slogan was misleading. The Inquirer tells us that BT filed…
Google working on a tool to remove personal data following EU court ruling
Google is working on a new tool that will give internet users the ability to delete outdated or unwanted search results about themselves. This follows the judgement by the European Union Court of Justice last week. According to a Computerworld…
Mozilla to trial ads in Firefox browser
As Twitter continues to drive many users mad with paid-for "promoted" tweets, Mozilla is looking to join the commercial world with ads in its Firefox browser. Sky News is reporting that Mozilla plans to introduce advertisements on the pages that…
HANDS-ON REVIEW: BT HomeHub 4 dual-band router
The BT HomeHub 4 is BT's latest home broadband router, a significant redesign of the workhorse that was the HomeHub 3, adding a new slim design to the series and bringing dual-band connectivity to the table. And though BT have…
Internet godfather Sir Tim Berners-Lee denounces government web spying
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder of the World Wide Web and the godfather of the modern day internet, has slammed governments using the internet to snoop and spy on their citizens. Berners-Lee, vocally pro-internet freedom and anti-web regulation, warned that society…
Samsung 5G innovation could power super-fast download speeds
Though EE have got a solid 4G footing in the UK, we're still waiting for the competition to heat up when other networks roll-out their super-fast mobile broadband offering here in old Blighty. The problem now however is that by…
BT, Sky, Virgin Media forced to block Kickass Torrents and other sites
Following on from the mandatory blocking of The Pirate Bay, UK ISPs BT, Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, O2 and EE will soon be forced to block websites Kickass Torrents (kat.ph), H33T and Fenopy. Continuing the UK government's clampdown on websites…
UK government decides against blanket ban on internet porn
The proposed blanket ban on internet porn in the UK, part of a campaign launched in May to bring about a law forcing internet service providers to block access to online sexually explicit content, has been dropped. The move was…
