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Evil Big Brother house

It's back on Friday: Big Brother. [...]

Chernobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication

According to Neil Gaiman the Ghost Town story (of the lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation) was a fake! [...]

email storage wars

Google offered 1Gig of free storage with Gmail. Yahoo retaliated with t heir offer of 100MB of free storage. Then Lycos offered 1 Gig of storage [...]

arrested for blogging

French chap slags off the city Mayor about how he spends the public's money and gets arrested for his efforts. [...]

Royal Mail 'loses 14.4m letters'

If the figures are accurate, this sort of thing is a bloody disgrace. I can't believe only 2000 people made a complaint about undelivered mail in t [...]

Not Sassy, Sasser

After the holiday Monday, UK companies could be hit with a nasty new virus this morning ... Sasser. [...]

Peer to peer is good

Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand has declared that p2p file sharing was, in part, responsible for the early exposure they received in the UK and [...]

Google float

Internet search powerhouse Google has confirmed it is to float on the US stock market ... more. [...]

Arts & Letters blog

Arts & Letters blog is a good selection of news on arts related subjects. [...]

Microsoft moves into blog territory

Expanding its push into the Internet search space, Microsoft said Friday that it plans to launch Internet search services for news and Web logs later [...]

End of free music?

Software developed to stop illegal P2P song trading: article at ZD NET News. [...]

IT skills shortage

Billions wasted in the UK due to IT skills deficit: article at The Register. [...]

The perils of Googling

If you prefer Google then this article on The Register makes for good reading. [...]

Longer wait for new IE

Microsoft holds off on Eolas-related changes to Windows and Internet Explorer. Modifications for addressing Eolas patent lawsuit will not be impleme [...]

Mood change for P2P?

Article on The Register about recent changes in the peer-to-peer business. [...]

How to make spam unstoppable

Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten.With a little ingenuity it is possible to create messages that [...]

My Doom

Sophos Virus Analysis: W32/MyDoom-A [...]

My Doom

The BBC news web site has a leading story about a PC virus called 'MY Doom' ... read. [...]

UK anti-spam law

Article taken from The Register:New UK anti-spam laws coming into effect tomorrow will have limited effect in turning the tide in the fight against [...]

New Windows virus

A virus dubbed Sober which affects many versions of Windows is starting to spread more widely online. [...]

Google eyes book search

Google is in talks with several publishers to build a service that would allow Web surfers to search the full text of books online ... more [...]

Another article on Eolas

Here's another article worth reading on the Microsoft / Eolas case, on Zeldman. [...]

Eolas solution

Macromedia and Microsoft are combining forces to provide a solution to the inevitable browser problems that will arise since the recent Eolas patent [...]

Eolas and web developers

The Eolas patent infringement victory has rattled the Web since it was handed down in August. In its verdict, a jury found that Microsoft's IE brows [...]

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