Since Skype's takeover by Microsoft, it seems the Redmond-based giant has been able to cast an approving eye over HTTPS links that are sent. More...

Germany's federal court has decided the Google auto-complete function can violate user privacy and former President Christian Wulff's wife is being used as the key example of this problem. More...

Microsoft said that in a new survey, 87 percent of people say they are concerned with online privacy but just 47 percent take active measures to protect their online identity. More...

Markus 'Notch' Persson, the man behind Minecraft and the upcoming 0x10c, has released a new, minimalistic game called 'Drop'. Players must quickly type words from jumbled letter to pass. More...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has predicted that "everyone on Earth will be connected" by 2020. But with two-thirds of the population still without a web connection, how realistic is that? More...

Chinese laws forcing real-name registration to use the internet have been passed, with further revisions likely to come. The legislation could allow removal of "illegal" posts within the country. More...

Figures released by comScore show the 2012 holiday season as the most lucrative online shopping period ever, with over $1 billion spent on seven separate days following Thanksgiving. More...

After a hack earlier this month were $250,000 worth of Bitcoins were stolen, BitFloor have announced that the service is back online, and they intend to pay back any one who was a victim of the theft. More...

Apple has just announced the introduction of a new customer advice and support service for certain countries that allows potential customers to chat online with trained Apple Specialists. More...

South Korea has been found to be controlling its internet more than you might realise, ensuring you don't say anything that could be inflammatory towards the government. More...

After the Republican party managed to reject the Cybersecurity Bill in Congress, indications have suggested Obama could issue an executive order for the bill, completely cutting Congress out. More...

After fighting against SOPA earlier this year, the Internet rejoiced at its ability to come together against controversial bills. Now it's coming back again, ready for another round. More...

A Q&A session during the Google I/O conference indicates that Google are paying attention to comments posted on YouTube, and could be contemplating changing the commenting system to crack down. More...

TV maker Vizio has announced the Co-Star, a new TV set-top box that has support for Google TV and the OnLive streaming game service. Pre-orders begin in July for $99.99 More...

The new look, and long overdue PayPal website revamp is coming tomorrow, and screenshots of the website reveal the more modern, simplified design that should appease customers More...

Twitter has decided to simplify their logo for good, removing all text, leaving only the little blue bird to represent the site. More...

A new trailer for airship-combat title "Guns of Icarus Online" has been released just as pre-orders go live on the official site. Muse games also released a number of new screenshots today. More...

Apple's online store is now officially sold out of the first unit order for "the new iPad". Apple is now taking orders for the tablet but they will ship to consumers on March 19. More...

Players of the Star Trek Online massively multiplayer game hoped that it would follow in the footsteps of other MMORPGs in becoming free to play - and now the game's creators have made it so. Engage! More...

Black Friday 2011 brings more PC game download sites into the annual week of savings including sites like Direct2Drive, GameStop's Impulse, EA's Origin and GoG.com, among others. More...

The developers of League of Legends have reported that their community recently passed the 32,000,000 player mark. More...

On Wednesday, some users of Research in Motion's Blackberry smartphone reported delays in getting emails, a few weeks after a massive online outage affected millions of users. More...

A new study from the NPD Group claims that while consumers do a lot of research online before buying electronic products, many still don't actually purchase them on a web site. More...

At one point, three years ago, Yahoo crowed about how it would keep records of your searching history for only three months. They then said that they would 'purge the information' in order to maintain... More...

OnLive, the online gaming service we reviewed a few months back, has decided that they will not charge users a monthly subscription fee to use the service. When the service went live, they were letting... More...

Today marks the last day that the Xbox Live service will be available for those who are still clinging to their original Xbox consoles. Microsoft announced back in February that as of April 15, all... More...

Facebook today stopped short of introducing a panic button after meeting with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection ( CEOP ) centre. Instead it announced that existing links in... More...

EA Sports is set to continue with plans to introduce a new Tiger Woods online game, despite the golfer's recent public relations meltdown as a result of his adultery scandal. The move comes just days... More...

Lessons in how to use the Internet safely are to become a compulsory part of primary school education in England from 2011. Drawn up by the new UK Council on Child Internet Safety, the plans... More...

Online retailers in the UK are preparing themselves for what is normally the busiest Internet shopping day of the year. The first Monday in December is considered by online retailers to be the peak, with... More...

Online advertising has overtaken TV advertising in the UK for the first time, with a record £1.75 billion spent on advertising in the first six months of 2009. Internet advertising in the UK now accounts... More...

The BBC has opened what could be described as the world's biggest zoo, in the form of a new website containing hundreds of pictures, audio and video from their vast collection of wildlife programmes and... More...

Microsoft recently released Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 Beta for Windows 7 which allows you to link your Windows User Accounts with your Windows Live ID. This may sound something similar to .NET Passport... More...

After ten years of the anti-porn law that was under the Child Online Protection Act, stopping minors from viewing harmful content over the internet, silently died off in the Supreme Court after Congress overwhelmingly approved... More...

A survey on Internet use in different countries has shown that housewives in the UK spend more time online than the average Chinese Internet user, according to an article posted by the BBC today. Conducted... More...

A new study carried out by the MacArthur Foundation has shown that online time is actually good for teenagers, countering the stereotypical view of parents that spending any time online is a waste of time.... More...

Microsoft has launched their first online store - Microsoft Store. Users can now buy directly from the store, straight from the source! The Microsoft Store offers the largest selection of Microsoft software, devices and hardware... More...

News Corp's MySpace launches a new online music service on Thursday, aiming to loosen Apple's grip on the US music industry and challenge all other online rivals. The service, MySpace Music, also aims to... More...

Although 84 percent of internet users claim they never give out personal details online, the reality is very different, says AOL. According to research conducted by the web portal, 89 percent of internet users have... More...

Today our coders will be turning on our new uber cool 64-bit mega server, which has been placed at our new multi-homed DC in the state of Michigan. The new server will initially only account... More...

Ambitious plans for an online video on demand service offering more than 10,000 hours of classic TV shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 were hit yesterday by a decision to refer them to... More...

Gordon Brown has taken Prime Minister's Questions online, through the magic of YouTube. The scheme will see the Prime Minister answering video clip questions sent in to the Downing Street YouTube site by members of... More...

Codemasters is pimping the second promotional mini-game for Rings Online expansion, Mines of Moria.It's free to play, but registered participants can challenge friends and unlock videos, images and in-game items that will aid them when... More...

Full source code for the client for popular MMORPG Eve Online was made available recently via BitTorrent on The Pirate Bay. Along with the torrent, the user posts a chat transcript with a representative... More...

Yahoo Inc on Sunday detailed plans for its forthcoming Web advertising management system that gives its ad sales-partners access to online ad space both on Yahoo and other major sites. The widely anticipated system, known... More...

Online Armor's new personal firewall provides awesome protection from inbound threats and complete control of data leaving your computer for the internet. In standard mode, most decisions are made completely automatically based on Online Armor's... More...

Google Inc plans to enter the online music market in China for the first time, as it steps up its battle with local incumbent Baidu.com Inc, media reported on Thursday. Google is expected to announce... More...

Yahoo Inc., is in early discussions with major record labels over offering unprotected MP3s either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service which the company hopes to launch by the end... More...

This year, for the first time, expatriate Democrats can cast their ballots on the Internet in a presidential primary for people living outside the United States. Democrats Abroad, an official branch of the party representing... More...

If you like to listen to free Internet Radio, Online Radio or Web Radio, we have the Online Radio Tuner which will play and record your favorite radio stations and display the album art of... More...