Twitter has been slowly and surely making its way to becoming a personal news wire of sorts.
Time and again the site has been the first to report some world event or breaking news. The latest example of this quick reporting is the earthquake which occurred around Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
The first update from Twitter […]

The BBC’s trial run broadcasting TV channels on mobile phones, has not been very successful according to some reports. The number of viewers tuning in to watch TV programs on their mobile handsets is not very encouraging.
According to data released by the BBC Trust, during the year-long trial of this new service, which ended in […]

Only a few days ago, Google was deep in discussions with Digg, regarding a possible acquisition of the site. It is believed that the term sheet stage had already been cleared. However, sometime last week, Google decided not to go ahead with the deal, and Digg was notified accordingly.
The two firms were in an advanced […]

Google launched project Knol last week. A Knol, according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. Knols are articles on any given subject, written by someone who is an expert on that subject. Google Knol is destined to be compared with and perhaps compete against Wikipedia.
Although the Web can be considered as an encyclopedia of […]

It has been announced that Microsoft will be bringing Live Search to Facebook as part of a new deal. This is not the first time Microsoft and Facebook have been in cahoots, last year the software giants acquired shares in the popular social networking site for $240, Microsoft also supply advertising for Facebook.The […]

“Hey, guys.” These were the words that began Facebook’s developer conference as the social networking website’s casually dressed founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stepped onto the stage - as reported by MercuryNews.com.The conference was to discuss Facebook’s future regarding its business potential for the many web developers that depend on the social networking site. It included […]

Google have announced the long-awaited release its new online encyclopaedia - Knol. The Knol service, with “Knol” itself meaning the smallest individual unit of useful knowledge, is a twist on the traditional wikipedia format, allowing those authors it deems to have expert authority in an area to write on a given subject. It will, […]

If like many people in our
technology-ruled world you can’t live without Google, video
games, digital media and social networking sites like Facebook,

Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft’s need to make heavy
investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was
“done,” for now, with pursuing Yahoo.

A Scottish schoolboy must surrender a
Web address tied to the Narnia fantasy world, which his father
said was a birthday present, after a ruling by a United Nations
arbitrator, an official report said on Thursday.