Load your Web site and watch it break

Web application testing tools from RadView enable you to analyse the integrity and scalability of Web sites. Features of Webload 4.5 and Webload Resource Manager 4. ...more

YouTube trounces rivals for web video

YouTube, the surprise leader in Internet video, is now serving more than 100 million clips every day, figures that must make Google cringe. The search giant has made much of its video offering, which launched in Europe just last week, but it is the upstart startup that has, like Flickr for photos and MySpace for music, become the place for uploading, searching and viewing fuzzy and grainy videos. YouTube now claims to account for 60 per cent of all videos watched on the Web and founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are now turning their attention to making some money from the site, primarily through advertising, though like both MySpace - now owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - and Yahoo!'s Flickr, its destiny would seem to lie in a takeover. ...more

Yahoo!, Symantec team up to take on Microsoft

Symantec has introduced its much trailed online security software suite targeting home users. The surprise is that Symantec has chosen to do so in partnership with online portal Yahoo! Named, somewhat prosaicly, 'Norton Internet Security provided by Yahoo!', the new suite of online tools is aimed at countering Microsoft's recent OneCare Live security suite. As with OneCare Live, the suite comprises firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware as well as offering anti-spam tools to provide detection and blockage of keyboard loggers, personal data theft, viruses and unwanted adware. ...more

Vonage dials into UK

Vonage has launched its VoIP telephony service into the UK, with kits available on the high street, backed by an online advertising campaign. Already one of the leading playeres in the burgeoning US market, Vonage's UK outing offers unlimited local and national calls, whether they are to other Vonage users or fixed lines, for a penny less than ?10 a month. Mobile costs are fixed at 15p, 10p, and 5p a minute at daytime, evening and weekends respectively. ...more

UK authorities file 439,000 surveillance requests

UK law enforcement and security agencies filed 439,000 requests for details of phone calls and Internet activity in the 15 months to 31 March 2006, the latest report from the Communications Commissioner has revealed. Of those requests 2,243 were for warrants permitting the interception of communications. Such warrants require the approval of a Government minister and under the terms of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) grant powers that could result in the bugging of an entire premises. ...more