Internet’s ‘bad neighbourhoods’ spread scams and spam
About 50% of all junk mail on the net emerges from just 20 internet service providers (ISPs), a study has found. The survey of more...
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After early success, Yahoo’s Mayer faces rising bar
(Reuters) – Six months into her tenure, Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer has arrested the decline of the Internet portal and has won favor on Wall...
First Firefox phones revealed by Mozilla and Geeksphone
Mozilla has published details of the first smartphones to be powered by its Firefox operating system. Two handsets are to be made by a small...
Wikipedia’s most searched articles of the year revealed
A study of 2012’s most read Wikipedia articles reveals striking differences in what proved popular across the different language versions of the online encyclopaedia. Facebook topped...
UK’s first 4G mobile service launched in 11 cities by EE
The UK’s first fourth generation (4G) mobile service has gone live in 11 cities. London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow and...
Father Of The Web Ranks Its Impact On The World
I’m on a Skype call with Tim Berners-Lee. The inventor of the World Wide Web has been putting the finishing touches on a new project...
Thousands face internet loss as FBI shuts off servers
More than 300,000 people, including many in the US and UK, could lose internet access later as the FBI shuts off servers used by cyber...
Crack in China’s firewall turns Obama page into freedom forum
(Reuters) – Chinese Internet users taking advantage of temporary access to Google Inc’s social networking site, Google+, have flooded U.S. President Barack Obama’s page on...
Google leads on clean energy ranking of IT companies
Internet search engine giant Google takes tops honors among 21 information technology companies for using and advocating clean energy, followed by Cisco and Ericsson, according...
YouTube reports 4 billion video downloads a day
People of the Internet, you love your YouTube. On an average day, you watch 4 billion videos on YouTube. And the next day? You watch 4 billion...