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Games Master: Anyone for tennis?
Parks and tennis clubs across the country are awash with people exhibiting that brief enthusiasm for racquet sports which seems to be an integral part of the Wimbledon hangover, despite the weather. But who wants to be one of the healthy, well-adjusted masses? We examine the videogaming alternatives...
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Wild Wild Web: Website of the day - 'the human clock'
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Sometimes you really need to know the time, but you don't what to look at your watch, or your phone, or the clock in the corner of your computer screen. You want to look at a big digital clock on a website, and you want to the numbers to be made out of humans...
Privacy of YouTube users under threat
Friday, 4 July 2008
The personal viewing habits and online identities of millions of YouTube users are to be handed over to an American media giant after a court rejected arguments that such a move amounted to a massive invasion of internet privacy.
Google must divulge YouTube viewing data
Thursday, 3 July 2008
A US court has ruled that Google must hand over its entire log of YouTube viewing data, including user names, to media group Viacom in a $1bn copyright tussle.
Virgin Media defend file-sharing clampdown
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Virgin Media today insisted they will not be prosecuting illegal file-sharers.
eBay fined £31m over sales of fake luxury goods
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
In a potentially landmark judgment, the auction website eBay was found guilty by a French court yesterday of failing to prevent the sale of fake luxury goods on the internet
Internet names shake-up agreed
Thursday, 26 June 2008
The internet's key ruling body today agreed to allow potentially thousands of new domain names to be used instead of ".com".
Internet faces radical overhaul with rule changes
Thursday, 26 June 2008
The internet will change beyond recognition by as early as next year in what is being billed as one of the most radical shake-ups over how net addresses work, if a vote to relax domain name rules is approved today.
Google insists its Android phone is still on track
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Google has denied that its much-touted mobile phone system, the gPhone, is facing delays and would be unlikely to hit the streets before Christmas.
Plazes brings networks to Nokia
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Nokia bought Plazes, a German social networking start-up, yesterday, bringing the possibility of phone alerts from friends that they are just around the corner a step closer.
'Superhacker' bids to halt extradition
Monday, 16 June 2008
A British man accused of the "biggest military computer hack of all time" will make a last desperate plea today to try to stop his extradition to the US.