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If HMV cannot find a way to reverse the fortunes of Waterstone’s, the book business it acquired in 1998, investors may demand that it is sold. In March this year, HMV’s chief executive, Simon Fox, unveiled a strategy to boost returns by 2011 after profits of just £2.5 million were announced on a turnover of [...]

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According to BT, by the spring of next year, 87 per cent of homes and businesses in London will have access to the ISP’s fibre network. Presently, that figure stands at just 3 per cent. BT plans to make London’s fibre network a combination of two services. The first offers internet connection speeds of up [...]

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A new deal between BT and union leaders could mean that many customers throughout the country will not have to put up with disruption to their internet service and their phone lines. A week ago, union chiefs said that they would ballot 55,000 members of BT staff over possible strike action, after refusing to accept [...]

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The government’s plan to put a 50p-per-month tax on households to fund next generation broadband access has come under fire from the Commons Business Committee. The group of MPs has said that whereas the wish to role out internet access to all is commendable, placing a tax on every fixed landline would mean that poorer [...]

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A report just released by Ofqual, the exam regulator shows that the amount of students caught cheating in their GCSE and A-Level exams is on the rise. Last year the number of penalties handed out because of some type of cheating was up by six percent according to the figures. However it is not just [...]

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Since Google first starting operating in China, they have taken criticism over their decision to allow the internet to be censored.  Some have lashed out at Google saying that the company was only concerned with getting control of the gigantic market in China and did so even though it meant allowing its company to be [...]

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As the general elections in the United Kingdom rapidly approach both parties are doing their best to set themselves apart from the others.  The Tories are doing their part to let the public know exactly where they stand on certain issues that are important to the public.  Recently the Conservatives have been rolling out all [...]

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Since Napster was launched in the mid 90′s peer to peer file sharing has been popular around the world.  More and more people are logging onto bit torrent sites to get free copies of the latest music, movies, and television shows.  What most of these people either don’t realize or have conveniently blocked out is [...]

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A recent study commissioned by Martha Lane Fox found that more than ten million adults in the United Kingdom have never been online.   Martha Lane Fox was appointed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to help bring internet to those who come from socially disadvantaged background.  Fox is most famous for launching lastminute.com and was appointed [...]

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A recent study, which aimed to analyze the quality of broadband internet worldwide, ranked the United Kingdom twenty fifth out of the sixty six countries.  The rankings were based on the quality of the country’s broadband network, and their ability to handle the demands of the next generation of broadband networking.  The research, which was [...]

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