Stephen Timms, the Government's Minister for Competitiveness, this week stressed that the UK is continuing to fall behind global competitors on the issue of next generation broadband. While Virgin Media is just beginning to trial 50MB broadband in some parts of the South East of the country, for example, other EU nations are offering speeds of up to 100MB. Ministers want to bring together key...

Will the earth itself actually end up being bought by Google? There seems to be no end to the power and ambition the Californian-based company has. Earlier in the year they bought the pioneering video sharing website YouTube for a reasonable $1.65 billion. In April 2007 they purchased the huge internet advertising service ...

It’s difficult for some of us to imagine a world without the use of the internet on a daily basis. Communication, social networking, banking and business are merely a small number of activities people depend on the internet for. However, recent research from regulator Ofcom has revealed that 39% of people in the UK still have no internet c...

In the UK we are all pulling our hair out at the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who fail to provide us with what we're paying for, let alone making it arrive at high-speeds. On the other side of the world, however, it’s a completely different kettle of fish and the rules for internet connection and its speeds over there don’t stop at the office and the home but apply to new equipment and se...

When students at the University of Aberdeen return to college in autumn 2007 after their summer break, they might find their broadband connection is coming from a rather unexpected source. Over the summer holidays, the university has been running a series of fibre cables from one area of the campus to the student village and accommodation area through the underground sewer networks tha...