Tech & web

Finland has become the first nation in the world to make broadband Internet a legal right, with every citizen guaranteed the right to at least a 1Mbps connection. Under the new regulation, which came into effect on July 1, all Finnish citizens are guaranteed the right to a 1 mbps (megabits per second) Internet connection, ... Read more

Science News Soon, we might finally have robots in our house to do our chores for us. This of course would be awesome, as long as the robot doesn’t cause any unwanted accidents. It certainly would be nice if the futuristic robots were roaming around your house, chopping up a home cooked meal with a ... Read more

Google on Monday augmented Google Maps with a feature called Earth view that brings the Google Earth software’s 3D perspective to the Web browser. Earth view is available through the installation of a browser plug-in Google originally issued in 2008. With it, people can see the contours of world–canyons and mountains, most dramatically–using the

We review Firefox Mobile (Fennec) to see whether the mobile browser is as good in smaller form factors as it has been on the desktop. For some years now the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser has been something of a people’s champion, wresting a huge slice of the market share from the likes of Microsoft and Apple ... Read more

The sex.com domain name auction scheduled for Thursday 18 March has been postponed due to an Involuntary Chapter 11 petition, or involuntary bankruptcy, against the current holder of the domain. The petition, published on the Domain Name Wire website, notes three claimants for a total

The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15th March 2010, as it’s the 25th anniversary of the day the first dotcom domain was registered. Back in March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books as the first internet address ending with dotcom. In that same year only a further five companies ... Read more

Sex.com, arguably the web’s most valuable address is once more up for sale, with owners Escom LLC in foreclosure. The sex.com address has managed to create huge amounts of controversy over the years, and was bought last time out for a whopping $14 million (£9.1m). It was Gary Kremen, best known as the founder of ... Read more

Data security firm Imperva has analyzed the attack on RockYou that took place last year. Imperva found out that, not only do people choose easy-to-guess passwords, they reuse those passwords across multiple services. For example, someone may be using “12345” as their Facebook password as well as the security key to a private office intranet. ... Read more

Eastman Kodak filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission and a suit in the Western District Court of New York that claims Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices both violate Kodak’s digital imaging patents, reports betanews.com. Equipped with a fresh legal precedent from the suit it won against Samsung last

Google says it may end its operations in China after finding “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on its corporate infrastructure that originated from the country. The attack, which also affected about 20 other companies, appears to have been aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, the company said in its ... Read more

Don’t look now guys, but only 16 months after it was officially released, Google Chrome is now the world’s no. 3 browser, based on Net Applications’ web browser usage data for December. What makes this more interesting is that Chrome has edged out Apple Safari which has been occupaying the third spot next to Internet ... Read more

When the year winds down, looking back or looking forward is usually the done thing. I clearly prefer the latter. I stick my neck out for five technology things that I believe are likely to storm the world in 2010. Smartbooks/tablets: A laptop/netbook loaded with SIM card seems like a godsend mixing the twin conveniences ... Read more

From ITPRO The world’s largest phone maker Nokia has filed a lawsuit against rival Apple, claiming the firm’s iPhone infringes 10 of its technology patents. Nokia continues to dominate the global phone market, but it has lost some ground to new entrants like Apple since it entered the market with its iPhone in mid-2007. The ... Read more

Indonesia is one of Twitter’s fastest-growing markets, according to company CEO Evan Williams. While the growth of the popular microbogging site has slowed in the US, Evans said India, Japan, Indonesia and Brazil are making up the difference. Despite widespread speculation about Twitter’s profit potential, Evans insisted the company is still focusing on improving the ... Read more

Thousands of Windows Live Hotmail passwords have been leaked online, Microsoft has confirmed. The news was first reported by Neowin. According to Microsoft, it “learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site” at some point over the weekend. Neowin originally reported that the credentials were posted to a ... Read more

Looking for nudity in the App Store? Well, it exists. Contrary to what hundreds of application denials might have implied, it seems that Apple’s perfectly okay with showin’ the goods within an application – so long as said goods are shown in itty-bitty (though zoomable) thumbnails. Before we dive too deep, we should make it ... Read more

Security Essentials takes its full public bow Microsoft has officially announced the arrival of its eagerly awaited free anti-virus software, Microsoft Security Essentials. The software giant is keen to ensure that computers are better protected worldwide, and its solution is to release a free application that will be available for everyone. “Consumers have told us ... Read more

Competition may be heating up in the search marketplace: Google is testing a new Fast Flip format, and Bing is looking at offering image-based search results. Microsoft is certainly putting its money where its mouth is with its Bing search engine, spending untold millions to develop the technology and more untold millions to promote it ... Read more

The tussle between Skype’s founders and eBay just went nuclear: JoltID is suing eBay and an investor group for damages of up to $75 million a day. The legal tussle between Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and online auction house eBay looks like it’s going to turn into a shooting war: Skype’s founders, ... Read more