Facebook has published a privacy policy which it has written in natural language rather than legal jargon and which it hopes will be the basis of user discussion and voting. The company said that its move was aimed at making the...

Spotted on the BBC site, police officers are using Twitter to keep local residents aware and assured about their presence. In growing communities it certainly does sound like a good way of letting householders know their beat...

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Fring is a social hub application that allows users to merge their contacts from phonebooks, VoIP and IM clients, then interact with them all through one application.Now available for Android devices it uses your existing...

The First Secretary Of State, Peter Mandelson, is making preparations to induce a change in the Digital Economy Bill which will endow him and future politicians with new powers to enforce copyright laws. According to a letter...

YouTube, the online video sharing site owned by Google, has launched a new section on its site called ‘shows’ which will feature full length videos of popular programmes like Channel 4’s Peep Show and Hollyoaks....

The search engine giant has firmed up its plan to commercially roll out Google Chrome OS in the coming year and it has also dropped broad hints at the features which the much vaunted OS will sport. The Chrome OS, named Chromium,...

The British supermarket giant has closed a five-year wholesale deal with Cable and Wireless that will allow them to launch own branded fixed line and broadband bundles. Already promoting many other brands via kiosks and phone...

The BBC is collaborating with some of the big names in the radio industry to launch a new platform, codenamed as the “UK Radioplayer”, a software application which would allow users to search and store as many as 400...

A US-based law firm is gearing up to file a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for banning around one million Xbox 360 users from its Xbox Live service over the charges that they have modified their game consoles.Abingdon...

Twitter is bringing upon a relatively smaller change in its service which include replacing the prompting question “What are you doing?” that was mentioned atop the website’s status box since it moved into the...

Microsoft Live Labs has launched a powerful yet simple online discovery tool called Pivot. The tool allows the user to perform a visual search on objects using a series of linked data and runs in Vista or Windows 7 with IE8....

According to a new study conducted by leading media research firm Nielson, social networking major Facebook has surprisingly emerged as the number 3 video site in the US.  In its VideoCensus reports, Nielson mentions that...

Microsoft has devised a new way of luring the current Xbox owners into subscribing to the Xbox Live Gold membership by making its service free for all users across US and EU for a specified interval of time. The Gold will...

The president of Microsoft's Windows Division, Steven Sinofsky, gave a presentation on Windows new OS, 7 and Internet Explorer 9 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Starting of with a humorous video depicting some...

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) witnessed the announcement of the availability of Silverlight 4 by the software giant. With the intention of taking on AJAX and Adobe Systems' Flash, the new version of...