I guess it is time to worry when you find yourself agreeing with Gordon Brown! Maybe it is the cold weather, or the fact that I haven’t been out of the apartment all year yet still feal totally in touch with the world, but I fundamentally agree with his article today in the Telegraph

Broadband will soon be seen as indispensable as electricity, gas or water, argues Gordon Brown.

No surprise that as an owner of a Toyota Prius Hybrid I am excited about the news that the PHEV (plug in Hybrid) may be on sale as early as 2011, rather than 2012 as expected.

Toyota are planning to produce and ship just under 600 of the models over the next six months. That breaks down to around 230 for Japan, 200 for Europe, and just 150 for the ‘States. Government agencies, corporations, and universities are the primary recipients, and interestingly, half of those Euro-bound cars are going straight to Strasbourg, France.

More than 115,000 people in England and Wales got fixed penalties for being on the blower whilst driving in 2007, dropping off from the 2006 peak of almost 160,000.

Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.

Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV

Britain’s broadband networks have been ranked 31st out of 66 countries in terms of quality

The German sportswear companies Puma and Adidas are to end a feud started 60 years ago by their founding brothers.

A British holidaymaker has won a refund of nearly £600 from Thomson after setting out his complaints in an internet blog which beat the holiday firm to the top in Google searches.

More than half of websites selling electronic goods were breaking European laws aimed at protecting consumers, according to an EU investigation.

T-Mobile UK and Orange are to merge – becoming the UK’s biggest mobile phone firm with 28.4 million customers.

More than 1.7 million people are at risk of falling victim to internet fraud because they use exactly the same password every time they go online, a new report warns

That’s almost double the number of people who uploaded self-created content in 2008. The survey also shows that 40 per cent of web users have posted messages on chat sites, blogs and news groups in the last year, up from 20 per cent in 2008.