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...

Britain's privacy watchdog is to look again at what personal information internet giant Google gathered from private wi-fi networks.

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Internet service providers should be free to favour traffic from one content provider over another as long as they inform customers, the communications minister will say on Wednesday

Who would dare challenge Google, the superman of the Internet age? India, that's who. Fresh off the high of its recent lunar achievements, India is taking on the powerful Internet search company on a playing field a little closer to home: Google Earth.  The Indian Based Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch its Web-based mapping system, Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), by spring. The ...

Big Brother-style monitoring of private internet, text messages and telephone traffic could be carried out by communication companies on behalf of the UK Government.

In an important judgment which will have repercussions for internet providers and users everywhere (including, I suppose, our own anonymous conhome commenters and indeed the pseudonymous centreright authors), Google has been forced by a court to reveal the name of...

If you mooch around the science sections of popular news websites this weekend then chances are you’ll encounter something called ‘The Google Effect’. From what I can tell, the BBC’s report started out the headline “Internet is ‘changing our memory’” but have since backed off a little and are now running the story as ‘Internet’s

Britain has yet to produce the equivalent of a Microsoft, Apple or Google, but if we are embarking on a second industrial revolution at least one Briton would qualify as the man who launched it – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet. He launched the web, not the internet.

Today's New York Times has a fun piece about Google X, the secret lab where Google is working on its special projects. The ideas are, suitability, far out. They are, apparently, looking at connecting household appliances to the internet and creating a robot that could go to the office so you don't have to. It would be tempting to laugh if not for what Google has already pulled off. Indee...