What have Stephen Fry , Facebook and Google directors got in common?
Their names are at the end a letter calling on the House of Lords to look at their decision to adopt an amendment to the digital economy bill.
Letter:
Sir, We regret that the House of Lords adopted amendment 120A to …

You might remember back in January we highlighted Suicide Machine.
The site was a great idea and an easy to use tool for those that were sick of the social network scene or needed to delete everything quick and easy.
Facebook pulled a freaker of course and lashed out with all its …

News comes today of Facebook and their plans to hop on the geo location bandwagon.
Recently, there has been lots of hype surrounding sites like Foursquare. So in a predictable move, Facebook has decided to add a similar service to their site.
After concerns over user safety and even insurance companies wagging …

According to the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) open source is bad.
Yes, they even go so far as to generating a list of countries that promote and use open source programs. The Special 301 watchlist may include Brazil, India, and Indonesia to name but a few. This has nothing to …

Yes, our very awesome Smod Doctor Doom is heading to France for The International Games Festival.
Le Blurb:
Win more than 10.000 € in Cash Prize Money!!
The World Game Cup’s goal is to bring together the best fighting game players in the world for 5 days of intense competition.
It is held in …

About the Rubberbandits:
From opening up for Ice Cube to hosting a 2000 person Mustache Party on the banks of the River Shannon,
the Rubber Bandits have via prank phone calls, songs and riotous live shows emerged as the country’s surrealists
beyond compare. Straddling the comedy and music worlds like a tracksuit wearing …

I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going …

There have been a few net stories from China in the past week, so here are three that we were most interested in.
Google Hacker found

U.S. authorities tracked down the “Hacker” behind the famous Google attacks last month.
The man, who isn’t an evil Chinese spy, but instead is a freelance security …

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Goodnight sweet prince?
Youtube killed the Rick Astley fuelled misdirection craze today, only to go back on their actions and reinstate the video that has over 30 million views.
Earlier today the original RickRoll video was removed, the only thing remaining being …

Today Italy did something fairly weird. They found a Google Executive and two Managers guilty of privacy violations.
Now, you may think, this is it, finally we’ve caught Google out and their evil plans have come to the surface because no company can be that good…
Well, this whole thing actually stems …