Will Head writes...

Another day, anther convenient survey, this time from Epson and TÜV Rheinland showing that ink isn't just expensive - your printer could be eating half of it instead of spreading it on the page.

Somewhat conveniently, Espon's printers came out as the most efficient in the study using more than 80 percent of the ink in their individual cartridges. Kodak, on the other hand, was made to go and stand in the corner and think about what it had done with its EasyShare 5300 wasting a staggering 64 percent of ink you paid good money for.

Will Head writes...

It looks like half of the country is chained to their keyboards if the results of a new poll are true. According to those quizzed by ICM, 50 percent of 25 to 34 years olds said they would not be able to carry on without email. It's not clear if this was actually tried on any of the participants to see what happened.

The Welsh seem least afflicted, with only 34 percent claiming that access to email was essential for them. Head on over to the South East, however, and that figure jumps to 43 percent.

And it's not the youngsters driving up the statistics - according to the results more people in the 35 to 44 age bracket (44 percent) considered email vital than those in their teenage years (41 percent).

Will Head writes...

If you lock down your profile so only your friends can read your updates, how safe are those postings should you be involved in a court case? It's a question that the American legal system is currently grappling with.

Interestingly, in certain cases your email can be used in evidence, so the question revolves around whether there is a higher expectation for privacy for postings to social networks than that for email. A judge has ruled that currently the plaintiff's privacy should prevail, but she didn’t rule out changing her mind at a later date if the arguments in the case persuaded her.

Will Head writes...

How do you sell a top of the range edition of a new operating system? Well, Microsoft thought it wasn't enough to just ram it full of features and add-ons - that was just way too boring. What it did instead was decide to create the operating system that just keeps on giving and Windows Ultimate Extras was born.

The theory was if you bought Ultimate, instead of one of the other cheaper version, you would get new apps and programs exclusively to download. Except the only problem is, after an initial flurry of activity around launch time, new Extras have been a little thin on the ground.

To make matters worse for Microsoft, people are starting to notice and they're getting a little tetchy about the situation.

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Google has got a cunning plan up its sleeve to solve its copyright woes over YouTube. While it seems fairly adamant that it's not going to look at every uploaded video before it goes live on the service, it is offering to help out copyright holders by scanning through all the stuff that goes up and seeing if it matches protected material.

The catch? Well, the companies in question would have to give Google a copy of their content first, so it could add it to its database and use it to check against new material. So, if content companies want to get their stuff off YouTube, they have to send a nice high quality copy of it to Google first - can't see that many of them opting for that.

Will Head writes...

So the surprise part in Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC, the bit where he catches everyone unaware and reveals something new, was that the Safari web browser is coming to Windows.

The bit he neglected to mention was that it also comes with the nasty security vulnerabilities you'd expect to find in Windows software - you know the kind of things that let bad people do naughty stuff to your machine without you knowing.

Now, you could say that it's not Safari's fault that Windows lets all this badware run in the first place, but that's shifting the blame a bit. It's like blaming the security guard for being asleep during a burglary rather than the person that didn't lock up properly and left door wide open.

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Human rights group and surveillance watchdog Privacy International has just released an interim report on the privacy practices of over 20 leading web companies, and the results don't look good for colourful, cuddly Google.

The big G was the only one in the group that included companies such as Microsoft, AOL, MySpace and eBay to be placed in the bottom section of the six stage colour coded scale and labelled hostile to privacy.

Just a day after the results were published, just to show how well the verdict was going down, Google representatives apparently tried to start a smear campaign against Privacy International, claiming it has "a conflict of interest regarding Microsoft". This information was sent to two European journalists by Google representatives, according to the privacy group. Shortly afterwards, employees from major internet firms were seen forming a circle around both companies and shouting: "Fight, fight, fight..."

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It was only seven years ago that pesky upstart AOL merged with established media heavy weight Time Warner, with AOL making up 55 percent of the new company to Time Warner's smaller 45 percent share.

Spin on through a dot com bust, a mass reduction in the cost consumers pay for an internet connection and an overall flattening in internet company values and it looks like Time Warner could be looking to shake off AOL for good and forget the whole thing ever happened in the first place.

It didn't take long for the honeymoon to end, with AOL Time Warner having to report a loss of $99bn in 2002 and the blame being clearly levelled at the bit beginning with A. As way of punishment its three letters were unceremoniously dropped from the beginning of the merged company name.