Conservatives and Labour look beyond billboards and party political broadcasts by firing opening salvos on website
Forget airbrushed billboards – signs that this will be the “Mumsnet election” have arrived as the major parties go to war on the parenting website.
Labour fired the first salvo with an advert on the main forum page, which attacked the [...]

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Google is to begin testing ultrafast broadband in America as it lobbies the US government to spend more on improving internet access across the country.
The company announced today that it was planning to run trials of so-called “fibre to the home” connections - which replace traditional copper phone lines with fibre optic cables that [...]

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Kenneth Geers, the US representative at the Cyber Centre of Excellence in Estonia, leads the team through the annals of cyber warfare, and helps to dissect the implications of the recent Google-China conflict.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, tells Mercedes Bunz about his new initiatives, Wikia and Hunch.com, and sticks up for user-generation in 2010. But [...]

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In 2009, the internet’s share of UK ad spend rose by the amount that newspapers lost. Coincidence?
Hark, the herald angels sing! Total UK ad spend will rise this autumn, after nine consecutive quarters of annual decline, according to an Advertising Association and WARC forecast.
The rise is modest – Q3 2010 is predicted to be 2.8% [...]

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The corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts
Back before the Christmas break, it looked like Ofcom was ready to do its duty and stop the BBC from adding digital rights management technology to its high-definition broadcasts. After all, DRM doesn’t actually prevent copying – [...]

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Less than a year after he was parachuted in to run MySpace, Owen Van Natta is out of a job as the ailing social network tries once again to revitalise itself.
Van Natta, who spent several years as a senior executive at Facebook, was brought in by News Corporation last April to replace ousted MySpace founder [...]

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Mobile phone operating system can now be modified by anyone as Nokia’s platform struggles to compete with Apple and Google

Symbian, the operating system used in the majority of the world’s smartphones, is now available as an open source platform four months ahead of schedule as it looks to compete with Apple and Google’s Android.
In a [...]

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Message on Vodafone’s official Twitter account prompted hundreds of followers to contact the mobile phone company

Vodafone has been forced to issue a grovelling apology to its thousands of followers on Twitter after one of its customer ­service staff broadcast an obscene message on the micro-blogging service.
The message appeared on Vodafone’s official Twitter account, which is [...]

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Google Buzz? It’s as popular as a thing that’s not very popular, it seems, at least going by the early reactions. A rapid roundup from the web…
Dave Winer, of scripting.com and Userland (which made hooking up to RSS easy to do) isn’t a fan:
“It violates the prime directive of new software. It starts turned [...]

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Government’s proposed ‘three strikes’ rule would damage business, say hotels and public institutions
Opposition to the government’s digital economy bill has increased sharply, with strong criticism in the House of Lords for its failure to offer “due judicial process” to people accused of illicit filesharing under the proposed “three strikes” rules of the bill.
Outside parliament, hotels [...]

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