Category: Internet
UK broadband users increasingly dissatisfied with ISPs say Ofcom
UK web surfers are becoming increasingly riled with the poor service their ISPs are offering, according to new research by Ofcom. Though many broadband subscribers are happy with the package they recieve, Ofcom have noted a 5% increase in the…
Google Goes Green: Earth Engine Launches To Monitor Enviromental Changes
Google recently launched Google Earth Engine, a global mapping tool which is designed to track the changes to our environment, at the International Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. The Earth Engine will be made available to researchers and scientists…
UK To Have The Best Broadband Network In Europe By 2015
Earlier today the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced the government will spend £830 million in a drive to give the UK the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. Hunt outlined the ambition to push forward the governments plans…
FRIDAY FUN: The Tron movie you're unlikely to see…
So the coldest working week in recent memory for UK Tech Digest readers draws to a close. But before you wrap up for the weekend (and do wrap up, it's bloody cold out), warm your soul with a belly…
WikiLeaks to expose UFO cover-up?
On the run and out of favour with pretty much every governmental institution around the world, Julian Assange has had a very busy week. It could well be about to get even more crazy, as Assange has now confirmed that…
72% of Brits social network in bed, instead of doing…other things…
So it's official: us Brits are more jacked-into the network than a stony faced Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. According to a new survey from hotel-chain Travelodge, 72% of UK surfers can't sleep without checking up on social networks like…
WikiLeaks forced from Amazon's servers
Amazon have removed the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website from their servers, following increased US governmental pressure after the lastest batch of leaked diplomatic messages from the site. Though the leaked documents are already being widely distributed via filesharing and bittorrent…
Interpol hunting WikiLeak's Assange on sex charge
Blimey, what a week for WikiLeak's Julian Assange! First his leaked international diplomatic documents kick up a politcal and media storm, then WikiLeaks comes under attack from hackers, before being locked down by the "Great Firewall" of China. Now he's…
WikiLeaks: Great firewall of China blocks access to latest revelations
In news that's even less surprising than revelations that Silvio Berlusconi is perhaps a bit vain and that Colonel Gaddafi is ever so slightly mental, China's Internet regulators have today blocked access across the country to the latest batch of…
WikiLeaks hit by hackers
WikiLeaks, the site currently causing quite a stir by revealing US governmental secrets, has reportedly been attacked by hackers. It comes just prior to a planned leak of US communications, containing many thousands of messages, which many publications including the…