Teenagers Prefer Twitter, Facebook To Blogging

We're all aware that Google tracks surfing habits in order to target advertising - in the future it might be listening in on your mobile, too. But while Google is the biggest data mining culprit on the web, it's far from the only...

Google Inc decided to go back to its 'roots' on Wednesday, and treat its fans to a trip through the scenic Amazonian rainforest as part of 'World Forest Day'. The Mountain View based company delved even further into its...

The Chinese city of Shanghai has decreed that micro-blogging users would be required to register their real-names with the service, as the government tightens its iron grip on the use of social media in the country. Shanghai is...

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has claimed that limiting or blocking access to social networking platforms was ‘unacceptable'. Speaking during the London Conference on Cyberspace, Hague said that basic human rights like...

While the idea of yet another social media music platform might sound unoriginal, what makes Kixar appealing is its strong roots in South Asian music.   As an avid fan of fusion rhythms and melodies, I was extremely excited...

The one man behind one-man-band PR agency The Redner Group has spoken out about how one ill-advised Tweet lost him the Duke Nukem Forever account and possibly much more. It's a cautionary tale about how using such an immediate...

It's looking increasingly like Facebook's bubble has burst, in developing nations at least. No-one could deny that the social networking site is one of the Internet's most important cultural phenomenons having passed half a...

We're all well aware of the role that micro-blogging site Twitter has had on recent upheavals throughout North Africa and the Middle East with much of the impetus behind the people-powered uprisings and political oustings driven...

A giant audiovisual 'egg', a 3D printed face and a shopping trolley armchair are among ten innovations hand-picked by a panel of celebrity curators to "shape lives in cities of the future", showcased this week in a pop-up...

The Vatican has launched its first summit for Catholic bloggers, which promises to be one of this year's technological highlights. As many as 150 saved bloggers will attend the summit, described as a “get-to-know-you...

A much rumoured announcement happened this week, Research In Motion's Tablet was unveiled - the BlackBerry PlayBook. The naming of the device might not be understood everywhere in the world, where the average person in the UK has...

Flipboard, a new iPad application that compiles users' social media streams into a personalised magazine, has been launched today.The newly launched Flipboard application will directly synchronise with users' profiles on social...

Dell appears to be distancing itself from Microsoft's Windows operating system. It is believed that Dell might drop Windows and forge ties with Microsoft rival Google as it prepares to launch its Chrome OS.Telecommunications...

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year old CEO of Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, came to London for the company's Facebook Developer Garage (video below). He also used this opportunity to meet with Culture...

In what can be termed as a testimony of the increasing influence of social networking over the contemporary world, the highly venerable Oxford University Press has selected “unfriend” as the word of the year...