A flood in a BT exchange in the Paddington area has knocked out telephone and broadband services to tens of thousands of customers in north and west London….

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Flood hits tens of thousands of BT broadband users in north London

Doesn’t work? We’ll give you a new box for 15 quid, says firm Bush, Grundig and Goodmans Freesat set-top boxes and DVRs will today gain access to BBC iPlayer, courtesy of an over-the-air update the combo is now pushing out.…

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Grundig pushes BBC iPlayer to Freesat boxes

Greenpeace slams coal-powered data centres Greenpeace claims that Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others are contributing to global warming by using coal to power data centres for their cloud-based services. The charges are dramatic – but are they on target?

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Facebook blamed for global warming

Rules regarding oversees workers coming to the UK on intra-company transfers have been changed in an attempt to control alleged abuse of the system, but one new element could open it up to more abuse.

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New immigration rule open to abuse

Google account password no longer flea in ear Google has added the OAuth standard to Gmail in a move to tighten up the security of its email accounts when a user authorises a third party developer to see their contacts list.…

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Gmail tucks up in bed with OAuth for third party app coders

Red Hat has begun shipping the fifth update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, which supports virtualisation,…

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Red Hat boosts virtualisation with Enterprise Linux 5.5

Civil rights campaigners 38 Degrees and Open Rights Group (ORG) have raised…

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Anti-Digital Economy Bill campaign gains momentum

Warwickshire County Council has landed in hot water with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after the theft of two computers and the loss of a memory…

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Warwickshire County Council breaches Data Protection Act

The government has rewritten the controversial clause 18 of the Digital Economy Bill to give a greater role to the courts in fighting online piracy, and force copyright holders to do more to provide legal access to copyright material.

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Mandelson revises Digital Economy Bill’s Clause 18, giving more power to courts

Five point throwing thing The government has announced a modest revamp of its strategy for fighting cybercrime.…

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UK.gov revamps cybercrime strategy