ASA investigates 'free' ISPs

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has demanded a crack down on misleading claims by 'free' ISPs, with ntl and BT in the frame. The ASA has received around 170 complaints about cable operator and ISP ntl. The problems lie with the fact that ntl couldn't cope with the demand for its ntlworld unmetered service, and had stopped sending out access CDs - yet was still advertising and distributing fliers encouraging customers to sign up. ...more

Fox takes programming to MySpace

Rupert Murdoch is strengthing the ties between News Corp. and MySpace.com. ...more

Intel envisions computers that learn

Researchers at Intel have unveiled software that claims to be able to allow computers to 'learn' from experience. By detecting how often something happened in the past, the programs are said to be able to allow a computer to predict future results. The company has made the software available through its Open Source Machine Learning Library (OpenML). ...more

phpBB team locked out from servers after political hack

Netcraft is reporting that the phpBB development team - the people behind the widely used (including by this site) bulletin board software - have been locked out of their primary server following a security attack. According to www.phpbb. ...more

YouTube battles against illicit content

A Brazilian court has ordered the video-sharing site YouTube to take down any instances of a racy clip showing Ronaldo's ex-wife Daniela Cicarelli, filmed secretly on a a beach, or face daily fines. The suit had been filed numerous times, with the most recent seeking that Google-owned YouTube be shut down if copies of the video clip on YouTube were not removed. Despite attempts to remove instances of the clip when the suit was first filed in September, its popularity has meant that users have uploaded it over and over again. ...more