Underdog new competitors to electricity selling, Powershop and Pulse Utilities, are revealing the excellent customer increase in the latest statistics on customers changing power corporations from the Electricity Commission.

Whilst the whole of 25,986 switches stuck in May is down on nearly 35,000 switches in March, it is however, 21% higher than the same month last year, and the largest May for switching, since 2001.

In the Utah GOP Senate primary on Tuesday, Utah republicans chose attorney Mike Lee as their nominee for the US Senate. Lee defeated businessman Tim Bridgewater to emerge as the favorite candidate to win in November.

With the aim of targeting growing threats like fake drugs and Internet-based piracy, the US Vice president Joe Biden Tuesday announced Obama administration’s new multi-pronged program for the protection of Intellectual Property rights.

Substantiating The Wall Street Journal’s Monday night report, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tuesday admitted having discussed open Internet issue during the closed-door meeting the agency held with executives of leading tech companies, including Verizon, AT&T, and Google.

Mobile phone operator Orange UK is trailing high-definition (HD) voice technology in Reading, Southampton and Bristol. The HD voice technology is expected to herald a new era for mobile communications by offering crystal clear and superior sound quality.

During the course of a Tuesday press event at the Condé Nast building, the company announced that though the money-losing ‘food’ magazine Gourmet was closed in October last year, the brand now re-emerges as a digital product called “Gourmet Live.”