It seems that eBay is growing more circumspect about what is traded on its website after recent litigation against the company by large fashion firms.

EBay.co.uk has teamed up with The British Museum and its Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)...

Two new surveys of British internet habits have thrown up different results because of the group of people questioned.

A survey by USwitch.com interviewed 15,323 people via an online poll by YouGov, which may naturally favour more regular broadband...

The University of Abertay, Dundee is taking the lead in training the next generation of computer security experts by offering Britain's first degree course in "ethical" computer hacking.

Not just anyone can take the Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has announced he is stepping down from his role at the company to devote more of his attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

He plans to work full-time until June 2008, and then step down to a part-time...

ICM Registry, the company behind the unsuccessful bid for a .xxx domain for internet pornography, is to take the United States government to court over the issue.

Earlier this month, a proposal for the creation of the .xxx domain was turned...

The huge explosion at Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 11 December that rocked the south of England has caused a number of UK websites offline and IT companies to close their headquaters for the day.

The fierce explosion -...

From 10am today, trademark owners in the European Union will be entitled to apply for a .eu domain name.

The companies will have until the 7 February 2006 before the .eu name is opened up to any company looking to show their European credentials.

ITV, has agreed to buy Friends Reunited, the website that links old school friends together for £120m.

The website, which has over 15 million registered users was set up in 2000 by Husband and wife team Steve and Julie Pankhurst.

ITV...

Bill Gates has admitted that Microsoft is under threat from innovative competitors such as Google through a leaked internal memo.

In a memo to senior staff, Microsoft's billionaire founder quoted Bill Ozzie, the Internet guru recruited by Microsoft...

Bill Gates has announced a fundamental shift in Microsoft’s core business offering by announcing that the company will be launching a free online office application next year.

“These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through...

Microsoft has become Wembley Stadium's first Founding Partner at the estimated cost of £5million making it one of four top-level sponsors over the next 5 years.

As Wembley Stadium's first Founding Partner, Microsoft UK will support the Stadium...

A proposal to create net domains ending .xxx has been approved by the body that oversees the net's addressing system possibly paving the way for a red light district online.

Sexually explicit sites will be encouraged to move to the new domains...

An .eu internet domain name suffix will be up and running alongside current domain names such as .com, .uk and .fr by the end of the year according to the European Commission.

The move will allow European companies to create a .eu suffix and...

Next time you go to the boss asking for a pay rise take a thought for Google chiefs Larry Page and Sergey Brin who last year worked at Google for $1.

Don't cry for them however as the two men are currently worth more than $7 billion dollars....

Bill Gates has become the latest recipient of an honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace for his contribution to British Enterprise and on another note, his philanthropy in the shape of large overseas donations for food and/or vaccination programmes,...