Leaders of an ultra-strict faction of Orthodox Judaism have called for a boycott of their community's own websites, saying that the internet is a poisonous influence on the mind, according to the Associated Press.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is said to be likely to press Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the dispute between the Chinese government and search giant Google when the two meet later this week for meetings on Yemen and Afghanistan.
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An Australian government website called My School has met with a furore of opposition from principals, parents, and former students, who have vowed to counteract any negative publicity about their schools published on the site.
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A series of advertisements for champagne that recently appeared on a pre-teen girl's gaming website caused one angry mother to complain to health group Alcohol Concern.
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Sony has purchased the domain name playstation3arc.com, adding more fuel to rumors that the consumer electronics giant's upcoming motion-sensing controller for the PlayStation 3 would be called the Arc.
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A professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, Robin Dunbar, has performed research saying that human beings are only capable of keeping 150 friends at a time, despite the many thousands of "friends" that some Facebook users have.
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Dagfinn Bach and Karlheinz Brandenburg, two of the acknowledged fathers of the now-ubiquitous MP3 sound file format, have teamed up again to debut a new file format that, they say, features both copy protection and "tangible benefits", according to tech news website the Register.
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Twenty of the UK's most picturesque and noteworthy vistas will now be available to the world via Google's Street View website, which geospatially maps photographs onto the world to create a virtual representation of actual places.
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The UK's closest equivalent to the Pirate Bay - a peer-to-peer media and software-sharing website called Oink - escaped criminal punishment after a jury cleared its proprietor, Alan Ellis, of charges that he had violated copyrights and bilked musicians out of funds. However, the British music industry is now threatening civil action against Ellis in a further attempt to get the website shut down.
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The Guardian announced this week that it would launch "a major data comparison site" in the wake of the UK government's creation of its own online data store.
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