- For users of portable computers equipped for wireless, a hot spot (or hotspot ) is a wireless LAN (local area network) node that provides Internet connection and virtual private network ( VPN ) access from a given location.

Details of a government initiative to give disadvantaged children free computers and internet access were announced on Tuesday. Schools minister Jim Knight said the programme will begin in February with two year-long pilot schemes in Oldham and Suffolk.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- An undercover operation by the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office netted another arrest for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

SAN FRANCISCO – Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet's workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch. Now it appears that the patch has some gaping