Virgin Trains extends trial for Internet on the move

Get online while you wait for your train. This is the promise of wireless Internet access at train stations, currently being trialled by Virgin. And given what we know about rail punctuality, you could be doing to do a lot of browsing. ...more

Blogosphere balloons

Blogging is rapidly becoming one of the favourite online activities. The Technorati website says it is currently tracking just under 19 million blogs. Furthermore, the practice shows no sign of diminishing. ...more

BT to trial 'self-install' ADSL

BT is to undertake trials of self-install ADSL, starting at the end of July. Self-install ADSL will mean that BT will no longer have to send an engineer to the customer's premises, which means the company, "will obviously save time and money - as will the customer", it said in statement. Self-install may be as simple as plugging a 'widget' into an existing phone socket. ...more

AOL takes on the spammers

AOL has taken its fight against spam email to new extremes, with the launching of five separate lawsuits against companies and individuals it alleges are responsible for more than one billion junk emails. The company claims that these emails generated over eight million individual complaints from its members, via AOL 8.0's Report Spam button. ...more

Apple applies for mouse, scroll pad patents

Apple has applied for a new patent for a 'Mouse having a rotary dial'. The patent describes a mouse where the main body is replaced by a rotating, tilting wheel, which in addition to the usual clickability, provides the ability to scroll backwards and forwards through documents. As the technoblurb introducing the application puts it, the user can manipulate the disc side to side for horizontal scrolling and backwards and forwards for vertical scrolling. ...more