Frederick Roberts

A federal judge has ruled that the Child Online Protection Act, enacted in 1998 though never actually enforced due to a string of legal battles, breaches the First and Fifth Amendment rights and is thus deemed unconstitutional.

Television networks NBC Universal and Fox are to combine their TV shows into a single online video site which will counter the popularity of video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

An explosion aboard a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine at 0420 GMT yesterday which left two sailors dead and a third injured was caused by an oxygen "candle", US and British military sources have conformed.

The Oxford English Dictionary has released its latest update, and new words entering the lexicon officially for the first time include "wiki", "malware" and "technopreneur."

The British Broadcasting Corporation will suspend its educational website BBC Jam! from March 20 following complaints from the commercial sector that the success of the website is unfairly disadvantaging the private sector

A site called Delutube has taken advantage of the fact that "deleted" videos on YouTube apparently remain available for viewing up to an hour or so after they can no longer be accessed on YouTube.com itself

Actor and comedian David Adkins, aka Sinbad, is alive and well despite claims to the contrary which appeared, disappeared and then reappeared on Wikipedia last week

A European study of over 1,500 people from the EIAA shows that wireless internet users are far more engaged online than their wired counterparts, spending over six hours more online per week

Two separate studies, one in Germany and the other in the United Kingdom, have concluded that playing racing video games promotes risky driving behaviour, particularly among men

Korean sources have said that Samsung is to supply its SGR-A1 stationary weapons robot to the South Korean military for the purpose of keeping an eye on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates North and South Korea

A man in Wisconsin has had his appeal to overturn a conviction for murdering his wife denied by the Court of Appeals. Douglas Plude had attempted to argue that the state authorities did not give his defense team enough time to look over computer logs which, he claimed, would have exonerated him

An undertaker in Northern Ireland has begun broadcasting funerals over the internet so that people can mourn a deceased loved one no matter where in the world they are at the time of the funeral

Google has agreed to aid police in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) to remove content and track down people who glorify Indian mobsters and use "anti-Indian words" on the company's social networking site in the country, Orkut

Students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai (Bombay) have been told that the college will be turning off the free internet access provided on the campuses 13 student hostels from 11pm to 12.30pm; in an effort to promote socialization and early bed times for undergraduate students

The driver of an Acura RSX might have made a real mistake when he made a run for it after allegedly crashing into another vehicle whilst being watched by the owner of a long-lens camera.

A suicide bomber killed himself and injured three others in the Moroccan city of Casablanca late on Sunday

A court in Turkey has overturned the banning of YouTube in the country for insulting "Turkishness" and the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.