Lord Mandelson confirmed yesterday that persistent illegal file-sharers could have their broadband accounts suspended as part of the government’s plan to curb online piracy – but delayed a final decision on disconnection until the next parliament. “It must become clear that the days of consequence-free widespread online infringement are over,” the business secretary said yesterday.
Archive for October, 2009
29 Oct
Will Google’s Powermeter help save the planet?
Its searches have been blamed for helping computer users emit as much carbon as a small country, but now Google is trying to give something back to the planet. This week, the US firm launched an online service that allows British users to monitor their home’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions via the internet. [...]
29 Oct
13-inch MacBook/2.26GHz (Late 2009)
Macworld – In just three and a half years, the MacBook, targeted at average computer users, students, and PC switchers, has become Apple’s best-selling Mac model. In its first major remodeling since 2006, the polycarbonate MacBook has gained many of the marquee features of the 13-inch MacBook Pro ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 [...]
29 Oct
Google Wave review – our first impressions
We’ve been invited to give Google Wave a go. Find out what we make of Google’s exciting new communications tool. Like a cross between email, instant messaging and social networking, Google Wave has the potential to revolutionise the way we communicate over the internet – and that’s why it’s so thrilling that we’ve got an [...]
29 Oct
HTC HD2 to cost from £25 a month from the 11th of November
The highly anticipated, long awaited arrival of the HTC HD2 mobile smartphone is fast approaching and today has seen the first pre-orders and insight into the potential iPhone killer’s tariff costs. Mobiles.co.uk, little brother of the Carphone Warehouse, today started taking pre-orders of HTC’s latest handset, offering its customers some surprisingly good deals in the [...]
29 Oct
McKinnon extradition on hold
By now the hacker Gary McKinnon could have been well on his way to serving around sixty years in a maximum security facility in the US, but after all of the appeals and counter appeals it took a word from the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, to put a halt to the proceedings. It looked like [...]
29 Oct
UK Gaming Migrate Online As More Gamers Download Content
If the findings of a recent survey are to be believed, online purchases of games and extra levels are picking up in UK with nearly 25 percent British gamers purchasing such products over the internet. The UK National Gamers Survey 2009 has thrown some interesting insights into how gamers are evolving and it comes across [...]
29 Oct
Sky Player launch for Xbox 360 delayed
The service – which gives Xbox 360 owners access to hundreds of hours of programming from channels such as Sky Sports, Sky Movies and MTV – was due to go live yesterday, but the launch was suspended due to an “unforeseen technical issue”. “Sky Player engineers are hard at work to resolve the problem,” said [...]
29 Oct
UK wind industry gets breath of fresh air
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has sold a 50 per cent stake in three British wind farms to an American fund management group, in the latest sign of renewed investor interest in the industry. Centrica said that Trust Company of the West (TCW), a Los Angeles-based fund manager, was buying the stake in its [...]
29 Oct
London Stock Exchange close to Turquoise agreement
The fate of Turquoise, the pan-European share trading platform, is expected to be sealed within two weeks after the London Stock Exchange and the platform’s shareholders closed in on a deal to absorb it into a new joint venture, people familiar with the matter said yesterday. The development comes as the LSE is rushing through [...]
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