Businesses risk chasing away prospective customers when they send chummy e-mails that bandy around people’s names, hobbies and other personal information to pitch sales, according to a new study of the popular marketing tool.

Visions of future technology don't involve being chained to a desktop machine. People move from home computers to work computers to mobile devices; public kiosks pop up in libraries, schools and hotels; and people increasingly store everything from e-mail to spreadsheets on the Web.

It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said on Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium.

A record-breaking 46 percent of Americans have used the internet, email or cellphone text messaging to get news about the Presidential campaign, share their views and mobilise others, according to a new poll.

Over 100 law enforcement and government officials, clergy and educators attended an interfaith conference in May at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood to address the growing problem of Internet hate crime and to see how they can work together to improve Internet safety and security.

The 9th annual Internet Research conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from October 15th - October 18th 2008. The local committee is proud to welcome the international internet researchers community to our friendly city.

Scientists may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus.

KidZui, The Internet for Kids, is available to all families free-of-charge at www.KidZui.com, effective today. Designed for kids age 3-12, KidZui browser and online service offers access to more than 600,000 kid-friendly websites, videos, and pictures reviewed by trained parents and teachers.

The company has integrated an advanced file manager in its hosting control panel and has enabled its resellers to create several online stores and offer web hosting services in different currencies on them.

In January, we wrote about the trial that Time-Warner Cable was slating for the lucky users in Beaumont, TX: hard bandwidth caps. There wasn't much detail available then, but on Monday TWC dropped information about when and how much.

A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data.

The market for on-train WiFi services is finally starting to take off. Major European, US and Asian operators are rapidly following the UK’s lead and introducing on-board, high-speed wireless internet connections for their passengers. Against this background and with a host of new services rapidly emerging all over the world, the third annual WiFi on Train Conference is set for a record turn-out.