The UK Government's communications agency GCHQ has issued a rare statement saying it has no plans to monitor every individual's emails. Instead, the Home Secretary says we should all be ready to have...

You could well be right, and then there will be a whole new issue about how to fund future talent, future development for applications that are suddenly free (therefore less opportunity to reinvest)....

Many UK participants in Daniweb will be aware of the various social media that carry music. They will have been delighted by the free stuff that you can listen to on Last.FM (http://www.lastfm.com),...

It's official - the regulators are not going to stop British Telecom from going ahead with putting faster Internet in throughout the UK as long as it's financially viable.

Some non-UK readers...

It looks like common sense has broken out in New Zealand. There was a proposal to allow people to cut off customers completely when they were suspected of flouting copyright laws.

Now that appears...

A belated word about last week's Facebook (http://www.facebook.com) fiasco, if I may. You might remember the company aroused all sorts of excitement when it changed its terms and conditions to allow...

Many people will have seen the report on Digital Britain and what our Government wants from it in the relatively near future. Everyone to have fast broadband (good idea but not necessarily...

I was initially pleased to see that Microsoft is going to start offering a Fix-it system which you can download from the Web. You have a computer problem, then assuming you can still get at the...

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

Once upon a time, there was a newspaper in the UK. It had an editor, it had employees, it had stories, like any other newspaper.

Then it grew a...

I can't imagine the issue is of much interest outside the UK (although I see the New York Times is having a laugh at our expense, understandably) but it's been snowing a bit in London.

This will...

Even if you don't put something on the Internet, remember it may end up there because people have this incredible sense of humour. Or humor, depending on where you're reading.

Take this clipping...

It's true, Elvis Presley's birthplace and I are complete strangers. But if I had been there, or better still if I were planning to visit, I hope I wouldn't say anything overtly insulting about the...

An interesting report from the BBC this morning suggests that smartphone sales will decline worldwide except in developing nations over the coming 12 months.

Well, duh. It's been known for a while...

Occasionally there's a story that happens on this side of the pond (I'm in the UK) which one imagines the rest of the world will find thoroughly bewildering. Take the fact that it is about to become...

This is possibly going to be very badly timed. A lot of users are going to get very confused.

Essentially in the UK we have a lot of free or very cheap Internet services. We also have a lot of...

...with the idea that the world is coming crashing down around our shoulders, particularly with IT stocks falling and banks making tech staff redundant, let's have a think about one particular story....

Further to this the Guardian has some good analysis at http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/sep/25/internet

Here's a fun game played by journalists from time to time. There's a piece in today's Times (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4819803.ece) newspaper in the UK about...

This is a strange one. Forgive me for bringing the subject up but airline staff are asking that their providers restrict the sites people can look at when they're flying...

Regular readers will have read last week of my Internet woes. Well, they're not over. Today the repair man from British Telecom came round, plugged his modem into my socket (sounds like a euphemism...

Regular readers might have noticed I was a little quiet last week. Actually let me rephrase that: in the middle of last week, just after my last message in here, I lost all Internet connectivity.
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Here's an interesting one for anyone involved in an online trading community. There are increasing moves afoot to make the communities themselves, whether we're talking about eBay, Amazon's second...

The fact that the UK's Internet providers are doing something about illegal downloads of music (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4387283.ece) is of course to be...

When you're settling down to work today, look around you. Is everything as tidy as you'd like? If so, fine - if not, spare a thought for the people who live underground in SE19.

At this stage...