HOWZAT

Websites sign up to new internet standards code

Facebook and other social networking sites will install panic buttons so children can alert them if obscene material is posted

Time to Vice up your life with online TV

Now hailed as the new MTV, how did Vice, the two-bit irreverent cult youth magazine, evolve into a global media empire?

Net prices ‘fixed’, warns eBay

The online marketplace claims the prices charged for popular Christmas gifts are being fixed at inflated levels by big brands

More than 1,200 shopping websites shut down

Biggest operation of its kind in Britain targets fraudsters claiming to sell heavily discounted designer goods

MySpace enters free net music fray

Internet music streaming company Spotify faces its biggest threat yet with the launch of a free music service from MySpace

Google to limit access to paid-for news content

Search engine tries to placate newspaper publishers in move seen by analysts as adding momentum to creation of paywalls

2009's most Googled name? Stephen Gately

Boyzone singer's death makes him the most searched-for personality in Google's UK searches, beating Michael Jackson

£6 broadband levy may be trebled for homes

Two million homes will pay more than three times the broadband levy initially proposed — and there’s VAT on top of that

IN DEPTH: five right, five wrong and five weird

The Duchess of Cornwall’s Christian name was altered to Cow-miller and her title to Her Un-Royal Lowness

Shifting sands offer poor foundations

Twenty five per cent of those who have visited Wikipedia have read something they know to be inaccurate, a report says

Wikipedia stalls as volunteer numbers fall

Study shows that the website is suffering a sharp decline in volunteer contributors amid allegations of disenchantment

COMMENT: an anti-intellectual venture

Online resource stands for vainglorious amateurism. It has coarsened public culture and its decline cannot come too soon

Remote access in the UK for broadband users

How will Alston Moor, an isolated corner of Cumbria, get faster internet speeds than London? With a little high-tech DIY

Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool

Utopians believed the internet would be an unstoppable force for democracy, but the bad guys have got wise

Google wants your phone and all your calls

The internet giant is about to launch Googlephone, a system offering free calls - along with the mother of all handsets

Fake medicines seized as websites are shut down

Public warned of dangers of buying drugs on the internet as Interpol and MHRA launch co-ordinated raids in 24 countries

Google unveils Chrome OS operating system

The free cloud-based software will be easier, more secure to use and faster to start, the company claims

Networking sites 'fail to protect children'

Senior policeman in charge of online child protection claims websites fail to embed a free safety button to report abuse

Twitter to scrap controversial 'suggested users' list

List of prominent tweeters criticised for alleged bias towards US Democratic party, and for bestowing too much power