BBC iPlayer is an online TV and video portal available only in United Kingdom only. There are a lot of live TV stations available and you can also watch all TV programmes from the Archive. Other than being accessed using a PC, BBC iPlayer can also be accessed on android, iOS and BlackBerry devices and phones. It can also be streamed using different types of gaming consoles. This vast compatibility of the service has really played a crucial part in making it popular

Google will decline requests for user information from totalitarian governments in Africa that seek to crack down on online communication.

"We get these requests all the time," said Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, speaking to reporters in Nairobi this week. "It is different in countries where we have servers and staff because they can be arrested and harassed. We are careful where we open offices and put our servers."

The number of Internet users in Africa has grown, backed by investments in telecoms infrastructure and the entry of multinational companies like Google. This has led to new challenges for governments interested in controlling information.

The report this week from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said devices from California-based security firm Blue Coat Systems were being used in China, Russia, Venezuela and other countries with "a history of concerns over human rights."

"Our findings support the need for national and international scrutiny of Blue Coat implementations in the countries we have identified, and a closer look at the global proliferation of 'dual-use' information and communication technologies," said the report.

The existence of a malicious program called "Red October", a vigorous virus with an unprecedented spread was revealed by Kaspersky Lab on January 14th: this virus has infiltrated computer networks from diplomatic, governmental and scientific organizations in Central Asia, Europe and North America where it managed to collect various data and sensitive information. Thus, more than 60 countries, including France, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Australia and the United Arab Emirates .... have been affected by this virus, which began to spread five years ago and is supposed to be still active.

The operation seems to be designed to gather classified information and geopolitical sensitive data, through abusing hundreds of victims, via targeted phishing also called "spearphishing."

Skype is one of the most popular services for making phone calls as well as chatting over the Internet, appealing to 250 million monthly connected users: it is a great way to keep contacts with friends and family but also business contacts based far or even abroad.

But in China, people’s phone calls and text chats in Skype can be monitored by the country censorship authorities. And most people are not aware of it. Microsoft, however, assumes that each user do consent, as expressed in their Privacy Policy.