Far from dying from a slow death, social networking websites are growing significantly as the number of 15-24 year olds going on those properties reached 6.8 million in June 2009.That was a growth of 14 percent from June 2008...

Real time search is undergoing a paradigm shift as Facebook launched a new real time search feature for its social networking website a few hours before Google unveiled its own secret project, Caffeine.Facebook engineering...

Mobile network provider Vodafone has managed to secure RIM's latest Blackberry smartphone, the Curve 8520, which is the Canadian manufacturer newest value offer on the market.The device was unveiled late last month and lacks the...

The telecommunication watchdog, Ofcom, has revealed that the number of unbundled lines in the UK broadband segment has reached six million.This is a huge improvement over the 123,000 lines that were unbundled back in September...

As part of the continuous improvement of ITProPortal, our designers have been busy working on the layout of the ITProPortal.com article page.This latest release is the first to encompass a 3 column layout, which aims to tighten...

The big four music labels - Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI - are apparently planning to record a new digital album format called CMX which, it is claimed, will include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes and artwork.The project...

Googe has unveiled part of its next-generation infrastructure codenamed Caffeine which the search engine giant hopes will not only provide with improved accuracy but also much faster indexing speed.The aim, Google hopes, would...

Delving deeper in the report published by the communications commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, and there's a frightening figure that jumps out; more than half a million requests have been made to sleuth out information on UK...

With the 12 employees of Friendfeed joining Facebook, the number of senior ex-Google employees who jumped ship over the last two years is nothing short of astounding.This appears to be part of a concerted approach by Facebook to...

The pro-Georgian blogger at the focal point of the distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which brought down the microblogging website Twitter, has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to launch a probe into the matter...

Some of the users of VAIO laptops have pitched their concerns over Sony’s proposed plans to disable the hardware virtualisation technology needed to run XP mode in Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system.Sony...

iPhone users may soon be able to use Google Voice service, as the search engine giant is reportedly working on a new substitute for its hugely popular calling service, according to reports from The New York Times.As per the...

Social networking phenomenon Facebook has announced the purchase of Friendfeed, the social networking aggregator or Sharing service) for an undisclosed sum on Monday afternoon. On the Friendfeed blog, the company's founder, Bret...