Parliament to debate violent videos on YouTube

Parliament is to debate happy-slapping and violence on YouTube this Wednesday when the Violent Crime Reduction Bill will be before the Commons. An MP intends to raise the issue of how to prevent the broadcast of violence appearing on the Internet and may bring forward an amendment to the Bill. Last week, Iain Wright, the Labour MP for Hartlepool asked for a debate on how to prevent violence and instances of happy slapping appearing on YouTube. ...more

UK online shopping to hit ?100 billion

The value of UK online shopping is set to hit the ?100 billion mark, according to an e-tailers' trade body. With online sales of ?3.47 billion recorded for April, the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) believes the ?100 billion barrier will be broken this month, 12 years after online shopping records started. ...more

Microsoft moves north to continue Lindows battle

Microsoft has turned its legal guns on Lindows in Canada. It has issued a lawsuit in Ottawa which attempts to prevent the use of the trademarks 'Lindows', 'Lindows.com' and 'Lindows OS' north of the US border. ...more

Yahoo! lists UK's weird and wonderful websites

You might have thought the far corners of the Internet are places a decent citizen may not want to delve. But Yahoo! has leafed through what the UK has to offer online to come up with its top eight weird and wonderful websites in its annual Finds of The Year awards. Topping the weird and wonderful category is the web presence of the cloud appreciation society. ...more

Acer's Ferrari laptop gets new engine

Acer has lined up a new Ferrari laptop on the starting grid - the Ferrari 3400. This new version of Acer's premium notebook is based on the new AMD 64-bit, low-power processor the - the 3000+ Mobile Athlon 64 processor (see AMD tops out low-power mobile 64-bit chip range). As well as support for 802. ...more