London, Nov 6: Soon, Internet “black boxes” could be used to record every email and website visit made by computer users in Britain.

According to a report in the Telegraph, under the British Government’s plans to monitor Internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers in London.

Union IT and Communications Minister, A. Raja announced that under the rural broadband project by 2012, all Gram Panchayats, Government High Secondary Schools and Public Health Centres will be provided broadband connectivity.

Speaking at the National Round Table Conference on ‘Telecom Sector in Education Development’, the minister said that funds from USO are being extensively deployed to increase broadband connectivity at each block and village level.

Washington - Want to see what lies ahead in the world of operating systems? Head to the Web.

That's where you'll find some workable examples of operating systems that move everything - applications, files, and communications
- from the confines of your desktop to the more widely accessible Internet.

While the major players in the software industry are not yet among those with Web-based operating system (OS) prototypes, it's clear that the big names are paying attention - and making plans.

Washington, November 1 : Dutch researchers have shown that the so-called McEliece encryption system, a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the quantum computer in future, is not devoid of vulnerabilities.

Computer scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands said that they had managed to crack the system.

Tanja Lange, a professor at the university, revealed that the attack succeeded this month by means of a large number of linked computers throughout the world.

Prior to this work, she and her PhD student Christiane Peters had announced the discovery of a way to speed up attacks against the 30-year-old McEliece cryptosystem earlier this year.

San Francisco - Google and Yahoo are set to drop their proposed ad alliance possibly as early as next week because of antitrust objections by the Justice Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The report came a day after officials from the two companies met with regulators and appeared to be unwilling to make the compromises needed to satisfy Justice Department concerns that their combined power would overwhelm the online advertising market.

The deal was announced in June and proposed that Google start selling its search ads throughout Yahoo's US properties.

London, Oct 31: The global economy is headed for a "pretty serious recession" that could leave some major household name websites floundering, however, there won’t be any bloodbath, says the founder of Wikipedia, a well-known online encyclopedia.

Jimmy Wales believes that the Internet and technology companies will suffer a "serious downturn" that will hit websites that are heavily reliant on advertising.

"It won''t be a 10pc collapse which kills everybody, but [advertising revenue] is going to drop and that is going to hurt people, a lot of marginal players are going to have serious problems,” the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.