The personal details of a further 8,000 people alleged to have shared music or films illegally have appeared online.
A list of more than 8,000 Sky broadband subscribers and a second of 400 PlusNet users …

CONTENTS
1. Broadband for Africa: Launching the cables, launching the campaigns… – e-interview with Willie Currie
2. NIGERIA: Striking when the time is right… – e-interviews with John Dada, Titi Omo-Ettu and Abi Jagun
3. GHANA: Moving the …

Wi-fi as most people know it is about to get a major shot in the arm in the US. After two years of talks, officials have approved the use of
There are high hopes for "wi-fi …

YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live
video-streaming technology.
Over two days the site is planning a trial in which four partners will get the chance to air live programmes.
YouTube has done one-off live …

Scientists have shown off a system they say could “substantially” improve the data capacity of
fibre optic networks.
The team says the growth in bandwidth-hungry applications such as YouTube and iPlayer will eventually stretch …

Google has proposed paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network.
Google Buzz was widely criticised when it first launched.
Launched in February, Buzz enrolled all Gmail users into a social network …

American net users are being asked to help decide what ISPs can
do to the web traffic flowing over their networks.
It is the latest step in an ongoing row over the code of conduct for …

The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures.
The Central African Republic is the most expensive place to get a fixed broadband connection, costing nearly 40 times the average …

The co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a firm he founded in the 1990s.
The legal action against Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Google and eBay, as …

India has toughened its scrutiny of telecoms firms with a directive demanding “access to everything”.
An Indian Home Ministry official told the BBC that “any company with a telecoms network should be accessible”.
“It could be Google …