The Internet

Was That Quick Enough For You?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 02.02.2012 | UK Tech

How fast did this page load for you? Ofcom says you should get out the sparkers and pop the champagne - broadband speeds are 22 percent faster than th...

One In Ten Men Check Up On Their Partners Online

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.04.2012 | UK Tech

Before you air your dirty laundry online, or friend the hot guy you used to date in school on Facebook, think again. One in ten men admit to hacki...

British Children 'Sad' Without Internet Access

Telegraph | Melanie Hick | Posted 01.04.2012 | UK Tech

Fetch the tissues and get ready to dole out the hugs. A survey has revealed that British children are sad when they're without access to t'internet*. ...

Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO Comments On Censorship Row - VIDEO

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.01.2012 | UK Tech

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has addressed the global outrage around Twitter's new country-by-country censorship policy, defending the company's decision ...

One In Five Kids Access Inappropriate Websites On Mobile Phones

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.03.2012 | UK Tech

UK children are outwitting their parents to access inappropriate content on smart phones. One in five UK children are accessing inappropriate webs...

Megaupload Data To Be Deleted Thursday

BBC | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.03.2012 | UK Tech

US prosecutors have said that data belonging to Megaupload users and stored by third parties could be deleted as soon as Thursday. ...

Thailand Welcomes Twitter Censorship Policy

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 31.03.2012 | UK Tech

Thailand today welcomed Twitter's controversial new censorship policy. Thai Information and Communication Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap t...

BBC iPlayer Coming To Sky

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.02.2012 | UK Tech

BBC iPlayer will soon be available on Sky, bringing the video-on-demand service to 5 million customers. The Sky service will be called Anytime+, a...

Children At Risk From Cyber Crime

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 31.03.2012 | UK Tech

A child can now be at greater risk sitting in a bedroom on a computer than outside the school gates, the Home Secretary said today. Theresa May sai...

Facebook Timeline - Love It Or Hate It?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK Tech

Facebook's Timeline feature will switch on this week, displaying all your status updates and photos as far back as 2004. While there's no definiti...

The Week In Tech News

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK Tech

Your weekly round-up of tech headlines and happenings: Google switched up its privacy, and now tracks you across t'internet. A mega man was meg...

The FBI Is Watching You: US Develops Social Media Spy Tools

BBC | Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech

The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks....

O2 Being Watched Over Phone Number Privacy Leak

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech

O2 is being watched by The Information Commissioner's Office after it was yesterday revealed to have shared mobile 3G users' phone numbers with every ...

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Who Is Kim Dotcom?

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Tech

His numberplate reads GOD, he generously sponsored Auckland's annual New Year's Eve fireworks, rents one of New Zealand's most exclusive mansions and ...

O2 Exposes Your Mobile Number To Every Site You Visit

TNW | Melanie Hick | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK Tech

If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions of subscribers to mobile operator O2, you may be alarmed to learn that the carrier is sending ...

Global Torrent Site Panic

Torrent Freak | Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.03.2012 | UK Tech

In the wake of last week's Megaupload shutdown, some of the biggest names in the market are taking drastic action. During the last 48 hours many sites...

Grindr App Hacked - Private Member Details On Display

SMH | Melanie Hick | Posted 21.03.2012 | UK Tech

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New Zealand Arrests Over Megaupload Shutdown

Melanie Hick | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK Tech

New Zealand Police have arrested the founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, on his birthday in his multi-million dollar mansion. Stuff.co.nz reports t...

New Zealand Police Website Shutdown Following Megaupload Arrests

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK Tech

The New Zealand police website was shutdown on January 20 2012, following the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. It is not known whether the...

Anonymous Retaliation Hack Attack On Department Of Justice

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.01.2012 | UK Tech

Hacker group Anonymous has shutdown the websites of the US Department of Justice, the FBI, the Record Industry Association of America, the Motion Pict...

What Happened To Wikipedia In The Blackout?

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK Tech

Despite its SOPA protest blackout on 18 January 2012, Wikipedia was still one of the most visited websites in the UK during "the best online protest i...

SOPA Supporters Back Down

BBC | Melanie Hick | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Tech

Eight US lawmakers have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy laws, after "blackout" protests on thousands of internet sites....

Best Satellite Images Of The Year 2011

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK Tech

The snaking Rakaia River in New Zealand has won DigitalGlobe's best satellite image of 2011. The sinuous blue strips trace down the rocky course o...

#factswithoutwikipedia Wikipedia Blackout Turns Into Twitter Meme

Melanie Hick | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Tech

Wikipedia may be blacked out today, but that hasn't stopped Twitter users sharing their knowledge the way they do best - by creating a hash tag meme. ...

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What Is SOPA And How Does The Blackout Work? VIDEO

HuffingtonPost.com | Melanie Hick | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK Tech

You may have seen that Wikipedia and several other major websites are "blacked out" today in protest against the US Congress bill called SOPA. But...