According to Google it has basic its isolation policies in an attempt to make them easier to appreciate and maneuver with better lucidity. Google is updating its privacy policy to communicate more clearly and concisely.

As Yang said Google has two types of improvements. The first one involves the removal of 12 product privacy policies. Therefore it makes sagacity for these services to allocate a seclusion strategy.

British internet users are less willing to pay for content than their global peers, a fresh survey conducted by accountancy firm KPMG claims.

According to the KPMG’s annual 'Consumers & Convergence' global survey, 81 per cent of internet users in Britain will rather visit other websites for content if a frequently used free website starts charging for content.

But, globally 43 per cent of internet users are ready to pay to access frequently used website for content and the figure rises to settle at 59 per cent among the Asia-Pacific nations.

Rent A Friend, a US-based service that rents out friends has been launched in the UK.

The new service will allow users to hire a friend for an innocent date for 6.50 pounds per hour.

Rent A Friend has already proved to be a big success in the US, where its has more than 2,000 users who pay $25 per month to get access to a database of 218,000 friends available for hire.

Friends for hire offer themselves to be taken to family gatherings, social events, cinema visits or meals out.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the group that is responsible for allocating online domain extensions, has settled to make a move ahead with accomplishing a long-running mission to set a certified designation for porn Web sites.

There are an anticipated 5 to 6 million adult sites on the World Wide Web and it is anticipated that the immeasurable majority will have no interest at all making a move towards the .xxx domain.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is likely to give a green signal to the addition of an .xxx suffix for the sites showing pornographic data, on Friday.

The domain had not been approved by the US authorities, earlier. But following the recommendations of ICANN officials to the regulators to approve the domain name, in order to maintain a balance, the Government is expected to agree.

The agency argued that these websites should be kept aloof in order to maintain a gap. There is thus, a need of providing a separate domain to the sexually overt content.

The U. S. watchdogs are holding discussions with phone and cable firms concerning a negotiation that would offer the Government power over Internet lines without adopting contentious new rules the industry opposes.

According to Bloomberg, Federal Communications Commission has proposed a scheme seeking a regulation to be imposed on the internet service providers.

The proposal has been endorsed by a number of IT giants including Google Inc., EBay Inc. and Amazon. com Inc.

The Commission considered a voting system to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed plan. It analyzed the response of the telecom houses like AT&T, Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., it also scrutinized the ability of these telecom Companies in providing speedy internet services.

Tory MP for Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey, said she was frustrated to discover that someone had hacked into her Facebook, Twitter and blog accounts. The hacker posted sexually explicit remarks about her social media followers. The hacker also made unpleasant remarks about Prime Minister David Cameron's wife, Samantha Cameron.

In an interview with the East Anglian Daily Times, she said, “I came back to my computer and discovered someone had hacked into my website, blog, Facebook and Twitter - it is very frustrating.”

More than 420,000 scam emails are sent every hour to computer users in Britain, a fresh study revealed.

Life assistance firm CPP said that Brits received a total of 3.7 billion so-called 'phishing' emails last year, with someone falling victim to cyber crime every seven seconds.

The study also claimed that an average victim lost more than £285 to e-fraudsters.

More than half of the people surveyed by CPP said that they received emails regarding fake lottery or competition prize draws. Sending fake banking emails was the most common method used by cyber criminals.

The report by Comscore shows that Yahoo and Microsoft have grown in the U. S. search market in the month of May. However, it seems that both these companies have been making up the figures in their favour. Comscore says that Google has declined in terms of its search market share.

British Government wants to leave no stone unturned to encourage the expansion of super-fast broadband.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the Government was even ready to introduce legislation to allow broadband providers to use other companies’ infrastructure to roll out new fibre optic networks across the country.

Major broadband providers welcomed the announcement. Broadband provider TalkTalk’s executive director Andrew Heaney commended Mr. Hunt’s announcement regarding sharing of network infrastructures saying it would help expansion of super-fast broadband across the country.

The PlayStation store and account management will not be accessible for around 12 hours starting at 4pm BST on Wednesday June 9 as the PlayStation network is undergoing regular scheduled maintenance.

Online play and PlayStation Network sign-in will not be affected, but, those who do not sign up by 4pm may face difficulties in accessing online gaming.

In Europe, the June 9 batch of content will go live at 12 noon BST rather than early evening due to the maintenance schedule. It may be noted here that the European Store normally updates with new games for PS3 and PSP on Wednesday.

The Ookla Net Index has ranked the UK 33rd in terms of internet speeds, with average connection speeds standing at 7.69Mbps. This is only slightly above the worldwide average connection speed of 7.67Mbps.

The UK lags far behind countries such as Liechtenstein, Russia, Ukraine and Slovakia in terms of broadband speeds.

South Korea topped the list with average download connection speed of 34.19Mbps. Average broadband upload speed in South Korea was recorded at 18.45Mbps, far above the UK’s 0.91Mbps.

Slow broadband speeds topped the list of frustrations being faced by people in Britain, a fresh survey conducted by network provider O2 claimed.

O2 questioned 2,040 people about what frustrates them and found 41 per cent of them saying slow internet connection frustrate them the most.

In a step that ensured it a place among the four countries worldwide to use Internet domain names in their mother tongue, the United Arab Emirates launched its first web address in Arabic letters Saturday.