Internet Articles

• Google phases out support for IE6
• Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010
• Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine. The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work "properly" with t

• Google snaps up mobile ad company
• Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
• Google, the world's most popular search engine, has agreed a deal to buy the mobile advertising firm

• Play.com hit by ordering glitch
• Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009
• Customers of Play.com have contacted the BBC to report problems with the online retailer's ordering

• Internet addresses set for change
• Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
• The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is

• Celebrating 40 years of the net
• Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
• It has often been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For the interne

• Net pirates to be 'disconnected'
• Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• The UK government has been laying out some of the ways it intends to pursue persistent net pirates.

• Hackers target Guardian jobs site
• Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
• Computer hackers have targeted the Guardian newspaper's jobs website in a "sophisticated and deliber

• End of an era for early websites
• Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
• A service that gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page is set to close.

• Millions tricked by 'scareware'
• Date: Monday, October 19, 2009
• Online criminals are making millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-vi

• Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes
• Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed net users and now the m

• SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
• Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
• Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems t

• Computer 'agents' take to the web
• Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
• Artificial intelligence technology could soon make the internet an even bigger haven for bargain-hun

• Technology 'priority for Britons'
• Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
• Britons are more willing to cut back on holidays and meals out than on spending on communication tec

• Microsoft Office takes to the web
• Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
• Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office so

• Cyber crooks get business savvy
• Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
• Cyber crooks are increasingly operating like successful businesses, deploying the same tools legitim

• Call for limits on web snooping
• Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009
• Governments and companies should limit the snooping they do on web users.

• Cyber-security strategy launched
• Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009
• Britons face a growing online threat from criminals, terrorists and hostile states, according to the

• Pornographic videos flood YouTube
• Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009
• Video-sharing website YouTube has removed hundreds of pornographic videos which were uploaded in wha

• Britons say broadband 'essential'
• Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
• UK consumers now believe broadband is becoming as essential a utility as electricity or water, accor

• US launches cyber security plan
• Date: Monday, June 1, 2009
• US President Barack Obama has announced plans for securing American computer networks against cyber

• Strong reception for Google Wave
• Date: Monday, June 1, 2009
• Industry experts have given a broadly positive reaction to Google Wave.

• UK broadband 'notspots' revealed
• Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
• Around three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mb

• Probe into teacher Twitter posts
• Date: Monday, May 25, 2009
• A Scottish teacher who posted messages discussing her pupils on a social networking website is being