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Videophone calling gets cheaper
News Avaya and camera maker Polycom will unveil on Monday an Internet videophone product for businesses, adding to a growing line-up of affordable, easy-to-use gear of a kind once possible only in newspaper comics.
[November 1, 2004, 8:24]
Bertelsmann plans Napster takeover
News In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Bertelsmann's chief executive Thomas Middelhoff said that despite its ongoing legal battles with the record industry, Napster could become the Internet's most successful music platform ever.
[April 5, 2002, 17:35]
A Year Ago: Father of the Web lambastes cyber snooping bill
News In an Interview in The Observer newspaper Berners-Lee says the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill will stifle creativity within Britain's Internet industry. British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the founding father of the World...
[June 11, 2001, 6:28]
Father of the Web lambastes cyber snooping bill
News In an Interview in The Observer newspaper Berners-Lee says the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill will stifle creativity within Britain's Internet industry. British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the founding father of the World...
[June 12, 2000, 10:06]
PM moves to Internet time - critics sceptical
News In an article in the Guardian newspaper, the PM admits he was mistaken about the pace of digital change, referring to the need for government to think in Internet years rather than calendar years. Prime Minister Tony Blair admits Monday he has made...
[October 25, 1999, 16:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Recent events might suggest caution, but as this comes from a report in Okaz — a Saudi newspaper not known for great variation from the official line — I feel on safe ground. Monday 27/2/2006 It's time to reveal the latest threat to the moral...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Does Facebook rot your brain? Obviously not, but...
Blog The Wail, which it pains me to say is the second-most-read newspaper in the UK, has a venerable history of claiming that every substance and circumstance in existence can either raise or lower the risk of cancer - sometimes both, depending on...
[February 25, 2009, 22:12]
School PDA spy off the hook
News A student who used a PDA to secretly film a classmate being given a sound scolding and who later posted the video on the Web has been let off with a warning, according to the daily newspaper the Straits Times.
[July 17, 2003, 9:18]
World's first WAP ad campaign
News Finnish online business newspaper Kauppalehti Online sends SMS messages with exchange rates and stock prices to the mobile phones of users that have requested the service. The world's first advertising campaign using WAP technology has gone live in...
[October 20, 1999, 16:36]
Microsoft admits paying for 'independent' ads
News In a report in The New York Times, the newspaper quoted Greg Shaw, a public relations manager for the software giant, confirming that Microsoft paid for the cost of the supposedly independent advertisements, as well other expenses related to their...
[September 20, 1999, 16:04]
Bulldog customers fell victim to information theft
News The newspaper quotes a customer who says that bank account and credit card details were stolen. One-hundred-thousand Bulldog broadband customers have had their contact details stolen, according to Cable & Wireless, Bulldog's former parent company.
[April 20, 2007, 17:06]
Report: Timms to take over Digital Britain helm
News Timms, currently financial secretary to the Treasury, will replace Stephen Carter as communications minister, the newspaper said on Monday. Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan...
[August 4, 2009, 12:13]
Fujitsu seeks payment for NHS IT work
News A spokesperson for the firm refused to confirm or deny a claim in The Independent newspaper that the vendor is asking for £700m of the £896m it was due to have been paid if the 10-year contract had been completed, but added that the two sides are...
[September 2, 2008, 8:17]
Poor sales prompt BT Fusion rethink
News According to an article in Wednesday's The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the BT Fusion phones — which route calls off the cellular network and onto DSL-based connections where available — have found just 45,000 takers in the consumer sector, despite...
[February 6, 2008, 15:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News The local newspaper and TV station pick up on this, and readers in the South-West region may well have spotted Flying Vicar stories dotted around the place. Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal...
[September 26, 1998, 6:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The local newspaper and TV station pick up on this, and readers in the South-West region may well have spotted Flying Vicar stories dotted around the place. Congratulations to The Reverend Christopher WH Goodwins, MA, Retd, who phoned me to reveal...
[September 26, 1998, 7:29]
China will censor text messages
News In a BBC report that quoted the state-run Beijing Morning Post newspaper, officials in Liaoning province want to clamp down on distasteful or "fabricated" SMS messages, expanding on powers the state already exercises on email, Web sites and...
[July 22, 2003, 8:45]
Uni Sudoku
Downloads Or enter a puzzle from a game book, newspaper or website to solve. Attack Sudoku with both thumbs for smoother gameplay. Enjoy 10,000 puzzles in five skill levels, all solvable by logic though it can get a bit tricky at the upper levels.
[July 27, 2009, 11:30]
News Burst: e-Minister meets Net campaigners
News The campaign has attracted some high profile allies, including the world's biggest ISP AOL and the Times newspaper. CUT is campaigning for BT to drop its pay-per-minute access to the Internet and introduce unmetered tariffs as an alternative.
[October 21, 1999, 10:18]
News Burst: Scoot, TheStreet.co.uk face financial turbulence
News Scoot, the directory and e-commerce site, reported widening losses Thursday related to its acquisition of the UK's biggest classified advertising newspaper. Scoot.com and TheStreet.co.uk are the latest to suffer from the ripple effects of soured...
[November 16, 2000, 10:18]
