BBC – Hackers target leading climate research unit
The e-mail system of one of the world’s leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. Emails reportedly from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, including personal exchanges, appears on the internet on Thursday.

BBC – YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers
YouTube’s parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site.

The Times – The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market
Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls. For the first time, a single company will control everything from the software in users’ phones to the services they use to make calls and surf the web.

IT PRO – Twitter confirms it will have paid-for business accounts
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed that the microblogging site will offer paid-for business accounts this year. In an interview with the BBC, Stone revealed that business accounts will be the one of the first things Twitter will do in its aim of offering commercial services to make money.

The Daily Telegraph – Digital Economy Bill: No date for radio digital switchover
The Government has failed to set a date for radio’s digital switchover, in the Digital Economy Bill published on Friday. The legislation, which aims to realise the commitments set out in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain White Paper published in June 2009, has failed to specify a date for FM radio stations to be upgraded to DAB. This is despite a target date of 2015 having been set by Lord Carter’s report.