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While Google and Bing have spent the past 12 months building social sites and claiming that they’re really good at search, honest, Yahoo have quietly been biding their time.

Good news everyone! According to Ofcom, we’re nearly getting the broadband speeds that we pay for!

According to a recent report, almost half of under 12s in the UK would feel “sad” if they were denied access to the internet. The Digital Future report is the fist major report which shows that children are just as invested in the online world as adults, and they’re just as likely to be upset [...]

Buoyed by the recent takedown of MegaUpload, the entertainment industry in the UK have set their sights on the biggest suppliers of pirated material in the world. The search engines Google and Bing.

If you’re currently signed up for a Google Account, the chances are that you’ll have received an email from Google, explaining that they’re changing their privacy policy. We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers [...]

He might be the first Pontiff to embrace social media, but it looks like Pope Benedict XVI hasn’t yet decided whether using Twitter is a vice or a virtue.

Remember when Google’s famous motto was Don’t Be Evil? Well Twitter, Facebook and Myspace do. Which is why they’ve joined forces to combat what they see as Google’s unholy evil alliance of search and social.

Google CEO Larry Page has claimed Google+’s userbase has doubled to just over 90 million users in just three months. But other Google products are feeling the pinch.

With Wednesday’s huge backlash over SOPA and PIPA, you’d have thought that the US authorities might not have made any sweeping anti-piracy moves this week. And you’d be wrong.

We warned you that this would happen. Despite a last minute plea from the White House that the Stop Online Privacy Act would be stopped in its tracks, some of the internet’s most popular sites are taking a stand against government interference in what they publish.


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