Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links: Rank outsider sues Google over zero score Music industry to sue Yahoo China UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site Image-based spam on the rise Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people [...]

I recently moved home and found myself without a toaster, without an ironing board, without a bookcase and – most irritatingly of all – without a net connection. How on earth would I survive? Reasonably easily, as it turned out. In fact for a while I got used to being netless, just like the protagonist [...]

This morning I was sitting on the bus, listening to <nme mode>Wildhearts’ frontman Ginger’s confessional rock opus Valor Del Corazon</nme mode> (because nothing says ‘commute’ like a double album about your wife leaving you on account of your heroin habit), thinking about the differences between CDs and mp3s. And how heroin habits are a bit [...]