International net domains 'risky'

Work is ongoing to allow people around the world to access the net using their own languages and scripts, such as Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese ideograms.

Domain names are not general natural language expressions. They are simply identifiers. They must be unique. Names registered today must be able to work into their distant future no matter what characters are added. A miss-step could easily and permanently break the internet into non-interoperable components.

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Problems hit school data systems

A web-based system to help schools in England analyse pupil attainment and complete their self-evaluation and target-setting has been delayed.

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Britain is 'surveillance society'

The Surveillance Studies Network report says there are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras - about one for every 14 people.

Other techniques are used to record people's work rate, buying habits and travel movements.

Surveillance will increase in the next decade, the report adds.

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Virus writers target web videos

Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats.

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Firms defend dealings with China

Microsoft and Cisco Systems have defended their dealings with countries with poor human rights' records.

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Tough talk on net language issue

More than 90% of the world's 6,000 languages are not represented on the internet. So what must be done to make the internet a truly global place?

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Internet Bill of Rights proposed

A bill of rights for the internet age has been proposed at a United Nations' conference in Athens.

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