Wheres Your Web At?

You can see all the action from this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix online at the ITV.com website.

The first practice session takes place at 0800GMT on Friday, followed by a second session at 1200GMT.

Qualifying is at 1200GMT on Saturday and coverage of the race will begin at 1230GMT on Sunday. All sessions will be streamed live on the site.

Britain’s Lewis Hamilton is in the lead of the championship at the moment but reigning World Champion Kimi Raikkonen is breathing down his neck having won the last race in Malaysia.

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The Storm botnet was responsible for 20 per cent of all spam email sent in the first quarter of 2008, according to research from MessageLabs.

The Storm botnet was responsible for 20 per cent of all spam email sent in the first quarter of 2008, according to research from MessageLabs.

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Manchester United took a giant stride towards the Champions League semi-finals with a clinical victory against AS Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.Cristiano Ronaldo headed home his 36th goal of the season from Paul Scholes’ cross six minutes before half-time.

Roma rallied, with Christian Panucci missing from close range and Edwin van der Sar saving brilliantly from Mirko Vucinic’s 61st-minute header.

But Rooney bundled home United’s crucial second five minutes later.

The result leaves United clear favourites to reach a likely semi-final showdown against Barcelona.

Sir Alex Ferguson made three changes from the side that won so emphatically against Aston Villa on Saturday - Van der Sar, Anderson and Ji-Sung Park replacing Tomasz Kuszczak, Ryan Giggs and Carlos Tevez.

Vucinic led the Roma attack in place of injured captain Francesco Totti, and he was a lively figure in a first 45 minutes that saw United relatively untroubled.

Panucci posed an early threat when he rose to meet David Pizarro’s corner but headed over the top.

he International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a body that represents the music industry, has demanded €1.6m (about £1.26m) from file-sharing website The Pirate Bay.

The demands relate to a court case that is being brought in Sweden against The Pirate Bay for alleged copyright infringement.

The site tells surfers all over the world where to download content including music, videos and software for free.

The content is often subject to copyright laws and many organisations have attempted, unsuccessfully, to prosecute The Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde described the IFPI’s demands as “ridiculous” and said that he was confident the IFPI would not win.

“When we win the case, I’m sure that IFPI will not pay the damages that’s going to be awarded to us. And if they wanted to, chances are they might have gone bankrupt before,” Sunde wrote on his blog.

He also said that The Pirate Bay was actually making money for the music industry, not taking it away.

“Research on the area of file-sharing (especially music) shows that the economy thrives due to file-sharing. IFPI have decided not to quote any research for their claim. In a normal market environment they would actually have to pay us instead,” he wrote.

John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said in January that he was optimistic that the court case could see the site closed for good.

“The operators of The Pirate Bay have always been interested in making money, not music. The Pirate Bay has managed to make Sweden, normally the most law abiding of EU countries, look like a piracy haven with intellectual property laws on a par with Russia,” he said.

The case, which is not likely to start until the autumn of this year, has already seen The Pirate Bay accuse Swedish police of a smear campaign.

Last year, The Pirate Bay tried to take legal action of its own when an email leaked from a company called MediaDefender, who had allegedly been hired to put a stop to The Pirate Bay’s operations, suggested that some record labels had been trying to sabotage its network.

The Pirate Bay also attempted to buy a man-made island off the Essex coast from which to run its operations last year.

Manchester United stretched their lead at the Premier League summit to six points with a stunning display.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s outrageous flick started the agony for Aston Villa after 17 minutes and he provided Carlos Tevez with a simple second before half-time.

Wayne Rooney rounded Scott Carson for a third after 53 minutes and he slid home the fourth with 20 minutes left after more superb creativity from Ronaldo.

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Manchester United outclassed 10-man Liverpool to strengthen their position at the top of the Premier League table.Wes Brown put United ahead from Wayne Rooney’s cross before Liverpool’s hopes were hit when Javier Mascherano was sent off for dissent before the break.

Pepe Reina made some great saves but he was at fault when Cristiano Ronaldo headed home United’s second and Nani’s fine finish completed an emphatic win.

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A company claims it has cracked the anti-piracy technology on Blu-ray discs.Slysoft says the new version of its AnyDVD programme allows users to make “backup security copies” of high definition movies.

The claim is a blow to Sony which developed the Blu-ray format.

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Adobe has launched a new online image-editing service with a free 2GB of storage space.

Photoshop Express from Adobe is a free online service combining photo storage and image editing and is currently in beta. It doesn’t require you to download any software to your PC.

“Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road,” said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe.

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low connection speeds are the biggest cause of ‘internet rage’ for broadband customers in the UK.

A survey from Broadband Genie has said that after slow services, poor customer support and faults on the line were the largest source of frustration.

“Speed and customer service have always played a huge part in causing frustration for broadband users, but one of the most interesting findings of this survey was that very few customers were annoyed by price or capped downloads,” said Ciaron Dunne of Broadband Genie.

The major issue concerning speed, according to the survey, was that ISPs weren’t delivering the speeds they advertised, an issue that has been much in the news recently.

Recent research from point topic suggests that only 15 per cent of people signed up to 8Mbps services actually get that speed, as Web User reported earlier this month.

And last December, industry regulator Ofcom said it would analysing how broadband speeds were advertised in 2008.

“It seems that if ISPs deliver their advertised service without exceptions, customers will quite happily pay the price. The trouble starts when the goods, or in this case speed, aren’t delivered,” Broadband Genie’s Dunne said.

Tube trains and aeroplanes are two of the only places that you escape the incessant bleeping of mobile phones - until now, that is.

Emirates Airline has begun allowing passengers to use mobile phones on flights and the first-ever (legal) mobile call from an Emirates airliner was made on Good Friday from 30,000 feet.
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