The European Parliament has cast its final vote in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-strikes laws. Disconnecting alleged file-sharers based on evidence from anti-piracy lobby groups restricts the rights and freedoms of Internet users, according to the amendment.
For the fifth time in a year the European Parliament has spoken [...]

Data caps and metered billing have generated significant consumer resistance not because the idea of metered billing is always bad, but because the new packages on offer feel like highway robbery. Proponents of such caps, like Time Warner Cable, often claim that people need to “pay their fair share” in order to fund future upgrades, [...]

Virgin Media is piloting broadband speeds of 200Megabit per second (Mbps) for a small group of users in the UK.
Following successful trials in the lab, 100 “lead adopters” in Kent will have access to the high speeds, believed to be among the fastest in the world.
Virgin will be using the high speeds to test applications [...]

UK families are more likely to spend money on their internet service than food ? that’s the finding of a Digital Families report published by O2 today.
Said to be the most comprehensive study into the attitudes families have towards the technology they use everyday, the O2 Digital Families report was put together after questioning 500 [...]

Starting today, Mininova will use a content recognition system that detects and removes torrent files linking to copyright infringing files. The system will also prevent the torrents from being re-uploaded to mininova later on.
Mininova co-founder Niek told TorrentFreak that the system will be tested for 12 weeks with only a few titles. With this trial [...]

Apple and Twitter are reportedly in serious negotiations over a possible $700 million sale of the social networking site, with the deal set to be announced in June if successful.
Of course this is all based on speculation from a source close to ValleyWag, which states that he’s been recruited by Apple and says the two [...]

Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly [...]

A French firm plans to launch a satellite next year that it says will offer the entire UK up to 10Mbit/s broadband, including rural areas that are poorly served by ADSL and cable.
This week, Eutelsat is launching “Tooway” broadband in the UK at up to 2Mbit/s, via an existing satellite.
Its new craft, launching in the [...]

Mi-Fone, an African mobile device company, plans to release it’s lowest-cost handset to date in Africa during the second quarter of 2009. The Mi-X, which has a black and white LCD screen, sms capability, alarm and phonebook functions will retail at US$15.
Commenting on the new handset, Alpesh Patel, CEO of Mi-Fone, said: “The Mi-X shows [...]

Cablevision Systems will crank top broadband speeds up to 101 Megabits per second — the fastest advertised for any residential Internet service in the U.S. — with a launch set for next month across its entire New York-area footprint.
Optimum Online Ultra, priced at $99.95 per month for both consumers and business customers, will for now [...]