Office for National Statistics - E-commerce is having a huge impact on the way we do business. It can lead to dramatic growth in trade, increase markets, improve efficiency and effectiveness and can transform business processes. ONS developed the Index of Internet Connectivity as part of a package of measures to help monitor the UK's use of the Internet and the growth of e-commerce.

The BBC will start broadcasting BBC One and BBC Two live on the internet in a move described as the "kiss of death" for the licence fee.

A longish one today, which was intended to be shortish but grew. Words of J Mark Brewer "Thank goodness that we have this one, last bastion of free speech? the Internet. The internet, in particular, is the only truly free "press" we still have." I kid you not. Yay ! Rock-on, Mark. Live free or die trying! Long live the First Amendment - gift of the USA to the world. Er ... hmmm.

Prior to a live spiked debate on the "internet crunch" Rob Killick slams the scaremongering of those who claim the internet might soon collapse.

Before you say “get him and his Ivy league education”, my dealings with Harvard amount to its weekly 10-minute podcast, which doesn't really qualify me as an alumni. However, the latest edition of the Harvard Business Ideacast (sign up through iTunes)  - concerning the internet, the brain and the future of business - is an interesting take on brain/internet similarities. Without

Here’s a sophisticated pro-China argument on the fallout from the Google affair, specifically on the internet freedom versus internet sovereignty issue. There’s a good point within it: The infrastructure for the Internet was built in a way which did not...

A huge sorry to anyone that was hoping to see live blogging of the BNP debate. Sadly my internet connection decided to pack in about 9:30pm last night. I was really frustrated. Still I ‘live blogged’ it anyway and have posted it below. Hopefully those of you that didn’t see it will find it a useful catch up and those of you that did will have some views to contribute. - - - - - -...

The Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation (TTGDC) is using next generation internet connectivity from ntl:Telewest Business, part of the Virgin Media group, to help deliver and communicate its major regeneration projects.

From today, internet service providers will have to keep a 12 month record of every email you send and website you visit for use by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Ironically, the European Empire is calling on member states to keep a closer eye on companies that monitor internet usage and carry an illegal or disproportionate amount of surveillance! You

It's birthdays all around today as Google celebrates its 10th birthday and I celebrate my 28th. Google has come a long way since their famous search engine went live in September 1998. Back then ambitious young computer science postgrads Larry Paige and Sergey Brin were trying to establish their new business by working fifteen hours a day in a borrowed Menlo Park garage. Their early work paid...