Covent Garden's Royal Opera House is experimenting with Twitter in the form of a crowdsourced Opera which will be performed during the Deloitte Ignite 09 festival in September 2009. The opera is written from scratch with Twitter...

The Ministry of Defence has issued a document that spells out the usage by British troops of social networking websites like Twitter or Facebook to inform a global audience about their activities. The 13-page document (PDF) is...

More than three quarters of music listeners aged between 14 and 24 are unlikely to pay for a streaming music service according to a survey. The research was carried out for UK Music by the University of Hertfordshire on a sample...

Mobile Network Operator O2 has announced a strategic partnership with mobile mapping and navigation provider Telmap to offer navigation services to O2 customers on their GPS-enabled devices. In real life, the navigation and...

A pioneering patent system being piloted in the US has been stopped from accepting new submissions. The Peer-to-Patent project harnessed web users' knowledge to improve patent quality but the project has been curtailed. It will...

Japanese consumer electronics giant Toshiba is set to release a number of Blu-ray products by the end of the year as the HD-DVD episode is well and truly discarded. In a short statement, Toshiba said that it had applied to...

The latest version of the popular open source browser, Firefox 3.6, has been released for developers and internal testers. Known as Namoroka, the alpha version means that it is still unstable and is likely to contain bugs that...

Korean Chaebol LG and French mobile network operator Orange have released of the first 3G watch phone (or wrist phone), the GD910, in France last Friday. In a press statement, both companies said that they expect the device to...

At 21:00 PST on the 8th of August, Apple broadcasted its first ever "as live" concert for free for iPhone users worldwide using its own HTTP streaming standard and with the help of Akamai networks. The Content Delivery...

A recent report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner, compiled by Sir Paul Kennedy has stated that one in every 78 adults in UK are under surveillance and nearly 1400 requests are made by government agencies...