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These past few weeks, the internet community has been alight with malice over the 45-year-old Mary Bale who was caught on CCTV putting a cat in a wheelie bin. The CCTV video was posted to the internet, the internet community helped to find her and it was the internet community that delivered punishment in the form of hatred and abuse.

Now, as an ardent animal lover, I have absolutely no sympathy at all for animal abusers, in the same way I have zero tolerance for child abusers. As the internet becomes more proliferate in our lives, tolerance for abusers is becoming lower and lower. However, mob mentality is on the rise which is a worrying development.

One YouTube video showing a woman throwing puppies in a river sparked outrage and resulted in a massive internet campaign to find and abuse the woman. Another video of two teenage boys abusing a cat resulted in the internet community tracking them down and having them arrested.

While I applaud the efforts of the internet community and also tentatively applaud their condemnation of offenders who would otherwise be dealt with lightly, mob mentality will escalate – because that’s what it is all about. And herein lies one of the future problems of the internet. Privacy is invaded and mob mentality ensues.

Fibrecity Holdings, a network specialist based in Scotland, is to provide Dundee residents with fibre broadband connections by early 2012.

Fibrecity has already begun laying out the network. So far, it has announced that speeds from 25Mbps to 100Mbps will be available along with burst speeds of up to 1Gbps. Dundee businesses will be amongst the first to benefit from the improved network speeds.

Velocity1 and Fibreband, two Dundee-based internet service providers, have been the first to offer to deliver connections around Dundee, with more to follow.

Fibrecity will be using old waste water infrastructure from Scottish Water for the majority of the network connections.

India is really cleaning house now as its government officials tell all communications providers that they have just two months to open up their data.

At the minute, this mainly applies to VoIP provider Skype and internet giant Google – RIM’s BlackBerry has already been dealt with and subdued.

All telcos and communications providers need to build a server in India and let the authorities scrutinise private data storage the officials have said. And after seeing a good result from RIM’s capitulation, India is no doubt expecting a swift acquiescence from Google and Skype. I have two words for them – not likely.

Local.com, an internet-based search company, has entered into an agreement with Yahoo Inc. the company said this week. The agreement means that all location-based internet search site will make money from Yahoo’s paid search results.

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agreement between Yahoo and Local.com was valid from last Wednesday and will renew itself in 2011 on July 31^st. As a result of the announcement of the partnership, Local.com’s shares jumped 10%.

According to the latest figures and statistics form calls and lines giant BT, the UK has actually moved ahead in the broadband adoption stakes!

The UK, many of us were dismayed to hear, was lagging behind other European countries when it came to broadband uptake but now BT says that the UK is coming out ahead of the United States, Germany and France.

According to the statistics – from broadband providers like Virgin Media as well as BT – 71% of UK households now have broadband. Well done Britain!

Microsoft, the software giant and unified communications provider, has announced that it is looking for a partner in China in order to enter the internet search engine market and play a large role in it.

According to the Chief Executive of Microsoft in China, Simon Leung, the company will be investing around $100 million (approximately £65 million) in companies in China.

Although Leung gave no timeframe for Microsoft’s move into the internet search market, he did say that the company will invest in sectors such as cloud computing, gaming and software.

Google is on a spending spree of epic proportions at the minute. Far from an acquisition a month, the internet company seems to be heading for one or more a week and its latest is start-up company SocialDeck Inc.

SocialDeck Inc. is a social games company which has already produced several Facebook games which are known for simultaneous play over multiple devices. The company has also produced games for the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry mobile devices.

This latest Google acquisition highlights what we’ve already come to suspect – that Google will very soon be a serious contender of global phenomenon Facebook.

Although Project Canvas has been given the green light that may change to a red light in the near future as companies keep on popping up to complain about it.

Project Canvas is something of a cartel between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, TalkTalk, Channel 5, BT and Arqiva. However, the companies claim that the Project to bring internet to the TV and video-on-demand to customers is not a cartel. A rose by any other name etc etc…

The latest company to complain about Project Canvas is Six TV, which lodged its complaint with Ofcom on Tuesday. Virgin Media has also complained.