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Elite a computer space trading game has celebrated its 25th anniversary. The game was released on 20 September 1984 and was one of the first games to use 3D graphics. The original games was an overnight hit selling hundreds and thousands of copies and influenced the future of the game development. There [...]

Although the country is in political turmoil – Rwanda is now weeks away from completing a link to a high speed internet fibre optic network. New undersea cables in Kenya will be used to connect Rwanda’s capital Kigali by November. It’s hoped that in 2010 a new fibre optic ring is due [...]

One of the world’s largest computer companies Dell is buying IT service provider and fellow Texan firm Perot systems for £2.4bn pounds. The takeover should be completed between November and January and is hoped to provide a wide range of services to its customers. The cash deal will see Perot shareholders benefit from [...]

You Tube has lifted a block on users viewing official music videos after the website reached a agreement with songwriters group PRS for Music. Back in march You Tube blocked thousands of music videos to the UK after failing to reach agreement Over fees. The site which is owned by Google is now [...]

The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the worlds books and create a vast online library has intensified. A settlement of $125m was made with authors and publishers. The settlement was reached last October stemmed from a 2006 legal suit that Google faced for scanning out of print works without explicit permission from [...]

Figures on super fast broadband delivered by fibre to the home shows a 18% growth since the last survey compile in 2008.    This equates to more than two million people in Europe and suggests that the global economic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibre infrastructure.
Sweden is at the top of the list [...]

A flight simulator site which was targeted by a hacker back in May has had a file presented to the UK police identifying the perpetrator. Avism said it had ‘incontrovertible evidence’ about the hackers identity. The attack itself wiped out data held on two servers and ‘effectively destroyed’ the site which is still [...]

The government has made a appeal to inventors to develop anti-terrorist gadgets.  Real life versions of Q in the 007 James Bond films are being offered funding to develop technology to help fight terrorists groups like al-Qaeda.  Ideas have already come to light including rocket propelled net to stop speedboats and a barrier to block [...]