Wikipedia founder takes on Google

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has helped transform the way people use the net to seek out information and now the founder Jimmy Wales is hoping to do the same in the search field more...

Hackers attack heart of the net

Hackers have attempted to topple key parts of the internet's backbone, in one of the most significant attacks of recent years. The target was servers that help to direct global internet traffic more...

High-definition television free for all campaign

Public service broadcasters in the United Kingdom have launched a campaign in conjunction with manufacturers and retailers to lobby for the availability of high-definition channels on digital terrestrial television more...

Jobs seeks online music shake-up

Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple, has urged the world's largest record companies to begin selling songs online without security software. He said the abolition of copy protection software known as digital rights management (DRM) would be good for consumers and music suppliers more...

FBI freezes funds of 'virtual wallet' web payment firm

The FBI has frozen funds held in customer accounts at Neteller, the "virtual wallet" payment processor, as part of its case against the firm's two Canadian founders who were last month arrested and charged with racketeering and money laundering more...

MySpace offers £1m directing job

Social networking website MySpace is running a competition to win the director's job on a £1m feature film. Site users and experts including directors Anthony Minghella and Kevin Macdonald will choose the winner from short films submitted to MySpace more...

New phishing technique discovered

A new ‘undetectable’ phishing tactic has been hijacking the web pages of a major UK bank, according to security vendor Envisional. Until now customers have been able to check a link in an email by moving the mouse over it, thus revealing a fraudulent URL addresses. But this new method shows the legitimate web address of the bank in question more...

India's vision for a digital billion

As 2006 drew to a close the President of India outlined his vision for a connected India. He challenged the country's technical elite to provide free bandwidth "for anyone, anywhere, anytime". In the speech, Dr Abdul Kalam said that communication channels were a "demolisher of imbalances" and likened the government's responsibility to it to "laying the roads" more...

Curbs call on pupils' phone usage

Teaching union representatives have called for schools to be made "mobile phone free zones" following the filming of an alleged attack on a head teacher more...

When is a Firewall not a Firewall? When its Vista's built-in Firewall

Whereas one job of a personal firewall is to block potentially malicious inbound connections to your machine, another is to block potentially malicious outbound connections more...

Tiscali TV announces roll out to major British cities

Tiscali, the broadband provider that acquired the HomeChoice operation in London, has announced plans to roll out the broadband video service to several other major British cities. It will be available to a footprint of 10 million homes by the end of the year more...

YouTube viewers watch less television as a result

Four in ten adults in the United States have watched a video on YouTube. Of those that visit the video clip web site frequently, one in three said they are watching less television as a result. Three quarters of them said they would visit the site less often if adverts were shown before each video more...

Apple to Vista upgraders: 'Wait'

Apple has told iTunes users to "wait" before upgrading their computers to Microsoft Windows Vista, saying its music software may not work properly more...

Mobile phone firms seek their own search engine

Some of the world's biggest mobile phone networks will use a conference next week to discuss creating their own mobile phone search engine to rival services from Google and Yahoo! more...

Dutch hackers given prison sentences

A Dutch spammer has been fined £49,500 in the same week as two Dutch hackers received jail sentences for recruiting tens of thousands of home PCs for criminal ends more...

Net safety day marked worldwide

Efforts to make the net less risky for children are being marked by the fourth Internet Safety Day on 6 February more...

Public favour biometrics to tighten security

Consumer mistrust of the current processes that government and business use to protect personal information has reached new highs, according to data released by the Unisys Trusted Enterprise Index more...

Vista has speech recognition hole

Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders more...

Tagging 'takes off for web users'

Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research. As more and more people put their own content online, they are also being invited to tag it with descriptive keywords to help organise their data more...

Storage growth sets a fast pace

A decade ago a 500 megabyte (MB) photo collection was something to boast about. Nowadays it is more likely be a collection measured in the gigabytes more...