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Ofcom To Get Tough On Broadband Line Speeds

Ofcom is threatening to flex its muscles, after research showed that UK web users are still not getting the broadband speeds promised by their ISPs

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Facebook To Allow Third-Party Access To User Info

Facebook has announced another update to its privacy policy, allowing some third party applications access to users' information without prior consent

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Protecting Your Business From Social Networking Suicide

The pros of social networking outweigh the security cons, but the risks to corporate image and data are still significant

Marketing

Google Ultra-fast Broadband Offer Proves Popular

Google's offer to test 1G-bps broadband access in U.S. communities drew responses from more than 1,100 communities and 194,000 individuals

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YouTube Fails – But Not Because of China

A YouTube outage was due to a technical fault, not retaliation by the Chinese government, Google has said

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Twitter Wages War On Spam

Twitter engineers have brought down the level of spam on the site to just one percent, while the GSMA is testing its own reporting service against mobile spam

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A Censored Internet Is Google’s Worst Nightmare

Google has been praised for taking the moral high ground on search censorship in China, but Google's motives are far more selfish, says Clint Boulton

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Google Adding Hack Warning To Gmail Accounts

Google has added a new feature to Gmail to alert users to suspicious activity and advise them their accounts may have been hijacked

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US Slams Microsoft China Search For ‘Enabling Tyranny’

Congressional leaders hail Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China while criticising Microsoft for continuing to do so

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Google Blames Bug, Not Hackers, For Language Glitch

Google has been quick to state that a software bug, not hackers, was responsible for its corporate information web pages displaying in Chinese and other languages

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UK Pirate Party Calls For Legalised File-Sharing

On Budget day, with the Digital Economy Bill still before Parliament, the UK Pirate Party's election manifesto demands new copyright laws and legal file-sharing

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Yahoo Launches Sketch-a-Search App For iPhone

Yahoo at CTIA Wireless debuts two search applications for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch

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Staff Ignoring Corporate Social Networking Restrictions

A new study has found that half of organisations are still restricting the use of social media tools, but half of all staff are ignoring these rules

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EU Clears Google Of Trademark Breach

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Google's Adwords service does not infringe trademark law

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Analyst Questions Google TV Service

Google TV could be an exciting new search and video service or it could be just another Web TV experience with a tepid reception

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Google Stops Censoring Search Results In China

Making good on its threat, Google has ceased censoring its Google search results on Google.cn

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Could Britain Lead The Digital Revolution?

Gordon Brown today laid out the government's strategy to transform Britain into a leading digital power, but contradictory measures in the Digital Economy Bill could foil his plans

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UK Military Forces Google to Remove Street View Images

The UK government has forced Google to remove images from Street View which breached the Official Secrets Act, according to media reports

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Novell Pulse Launch Hopes To Rival Google Wave

Novell plans to roll out its Google Wave-rivalling Pulse collaboration platform as a preview at Novell Brainshare

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Facebook Users More Media Loyal Than Google

Facebook users are more loyal media websites than visitors from Google News, signalling it as a strong driver for traffic beyond its own site

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Virgin Media First To Demo 200Mb UK Broadband

Home of the Future will host the nation’s fastest broadband, provided by Virgin Media, at the Ideal Home Show 2010

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10 Reason The Apple-HTC Lawsuit Is Bad News For The Mobile Industry

If Apple's patent infringement claims against HTC are upheld in court, the lawsuit could set the mobile industry back in a number of ways

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Google Teams Up With Sony, Intel For Web-TV

Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV: a service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other web apps through set-top boxes

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Facebook Reaches Compromise Over CEOP Button

The social network has finally agreed to use the child protection button on its site, while launching a PR offensive to boost its child protection credentials

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Google Adds Latitude Widget to Mobile Maps

Google has improved search and added a widget for the Google Latitude location-sharing application to Google Maps for mobile 4.1

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Nortel’s Old VoIP Business To Demo Hosted Solution

Officials with Nortel’s VOIP business, which is in the process of being sold, will demonstrate their Hosted IP Communications solution at VoiceCon

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Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button

The social network giant’s sustained refusal to adopt the UK's Ceop online protection scheme for children has led to a meeting with the Home Secretary today