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'Slow takeup' for internet TV

04.03.2008

Fewer than one in five Britons has streamed or downloaded a regular TV programme from the web, according to a poll of 1,500 people.

And 53% of people quizzed said that they would hate to be parted from books.

The survey, by...

Category: Video sharing

Google helps boost Pacific internet backbone

27.02.2008

Google is backing a new undersea internet cable linking the US and Japan, the company announced yesterday.

The new fibre optic cable system, named Unity, will extend for more than 6,000 miles along the floor of the Pacific...

Category: Google, Video sharing

YouTube redirected to Pakistan

25.02.2008

Video sharing website YouTube was unavailable to much of the world yesterday, after an apparent attempt to block it within Pakistan went wrong.

BBC News reports that the site was unavailable for almost two hours on Sunday...

Category: Video sharing

News Corp stalks the corridors of search

14.02.2008

Rupert Murdoch is reportedly eyeing a significant stake in Yahoo, in return for a portion of his News Corporation's online portfolio. According to the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal, Murdoch and Yahoo chief executive Jerry...

Category: MSN, Search engines, Social media, Video sharing, Yahoo

Government may disconnect illegal net downloaders

12.02.2008

The government is considering legislation to cut off users who use the internet to illegally download films and music, The Times reports.

And users who fall foul of the proposed legislation could be prosecuted, along with their...

Category: e-commerce, Online marketing, Other, Video sharing