The price of home phone and broadband could become cheaper due to Ofcom changing the list of rates Openreach are allowed to charge other providers. Ofcom have stated that the costs could fall by more than 10% per year. A technique called Local Loop Unbundling, which involves providers installing their own hardware in BT exchanges,… Read More

Late last night the online retailer Play.com sent out emails to its customers with the subject “Important: Email Security Message”. The Email explained that the company that handles part of Play.com’s online marketing had a security breach and as a result of that some customers names and email addresses compromised. The email makes it very… Read More

As part of a group effort involving Microsoft, Law Enforcement Agencies, Security Groups, Internet Service Providers and Domain Name Registrars, the botnet known as Rustock has been shutdown. A botnet is a collection of compromised computers that are all set up to accept commands from a control server. Using the control server, all computers in the… Read More

The first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has been released. You should automatically receive the update if you have automatic updates turned on, or you can manually check for updates by going Start -> All Programs -> Windows Update. The service pack download weighs in at between 73.6MB and 892MB… Read More

Google announced last week their new One Pass system, which is a direct rival to Apples new subscription service on the App and Mac Stores. The big difference between the two subscription services is the cut each company takes. Apple takes 30% of every payment made through its App and Mac Stores, and the same… Read More

Hylas-1 is a 2.6 tonne satellite which will be dedicated to providing up to 10 Mbps broadband services to around 350,000 people who can not get the service through normal means. The satellite was launched yesterday at 18:39 using an Ariane 5 rocket, and just 34 minutes later, it was successfully orbiting Earth. Plans are already in… Read More

As 10 year old Alex Wilson was driving with his dad, he witnessed someone steal a mobile phone. Alex, thinking quickly, asked his dad for his mobile phone and took a photo of the thief as he peddled away on a bike. His dad then tweeted the photo on his Twitter account before they headed… Read More

Symantec have released figures that show the number of spam emails being sent globally has dropped by 47% in the last three months. These figures are further supported by Kaspersky Labs, who noted that during July to September only 81% of emails sent were spam. This massive decline in the number of spam emails being… Read More

Last week Ask.com announced that they will no longer try to compete in the web search battle. Instead, they will be concentrating on improving their search engine to be able to answer questions, via third-party feeds. This could mean that a deal with Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, could be on the table, but… Read More