Rumblings in the world of social networking this week with news in that Facebook is suing Power.com, a Brazilian start-up that lets users access a number of social networks through one portal.
Power.com signs users into …

Entertainment Giant Viacom which owns MTV and Nickelodeon, says YouTube is showing its shows illegally and for the privilege is going to attempt to sue YouTube for a cool Billion Dollars.
Viacom alleges that about 160,000 …

Internet gambling site BETonSPORTS PLC has agreed to a permanent ban in the U. S., ending the civil component of the case against them. The permanent ban is an extension of the temporary injunction filed …

A bomb exploded at the PayPal headquarters, a subsidiary of eBay, located in San Jose, California, causing the evacuation of employees from the building. Authorities stated that the explosion was “not an accident.” Spokespeople for …

Web surfers who confused Web site ‘utube’ with ‘YouTube’ ultimately overloaded utube.com and caused it to be down all week. Utube is owned by Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp., a company that sells used …

Google has just announced that they are purchasing Youtube for a massive $1.65 billion.
The purchase is an interesting move for Google who already show videos via their own Google video service.
I’d imagine the potential for …

On Saturday morning the U.S. Congress approved a bill that would make it illegal for banks and credit-card companies to make payments to on line gambling sites.
Once ratified by the President, it is likely …

Mark Cuban, the billionaire Internet investor has blasted the credibility of YouTube as a business with the repost only a “moron” would buy it.
Despite the site’s enormous popularity there are copyright issues. When many of …

It is hard to remember that Ebay, now such a large part of our lives, has only been around for just over ten years. The very idea of people wanting to buy from a public …

It’s funny how Google seem to have a few hidden ‘features’ that few of us mortals seem to know about
This is one of the these features which apparently has been around since 2000 – How …

I love Ebay, in fact I feel on occasions that Ebay invokes in me a few addictive tendencies, however, even though I’m a pretty regular visitor, it still surprises me the kind of things you …

Earlier this week a Belgian court ruled that Google News could not use material from “Belgian publishers of the French- and German-speaking daily press” without paying a copyright fee.
The ruling followed a case brought …

Even those of us who would never dream of entering a questionable site on the Internet, want to guarantee our privacy to surf without being traced.
A modified version of Firefox has been developed by …

For those of you who still use Internet Explorer to browse the Web, you should know that attack code exploiting an unpatched IE flaw has been released on publicly accessible websites last week. When integrated …

Cyber scams are no longer the province of the lone teenage hacker, out for his ten minutes of geek glory. It is now becoming very firmly entrenched in organised crimes.
Christopher Painter, deputy chief of …

Yesterday at 20:30 (UTC), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation suffered downtime. The database was locked so no edits could be made. The Recent changes on Wikipedia were very …