Twitter has been named the breakout site of the year at the prestigious Webby awards, cementing its zeitgeist status. Twitter won breakout site at the 2009 Webby Awards Founded three years ago, the microblogging site has grown 900% in the…
Twitter has been named the breakout site of the year at the prestigious Webby awards, cementing its zeitgeist status. Twitter won breakout site at the 2009 Webby Awards Founded three years ago, the microblogging site has grown 900% in the…
Google said in its quest to create the perfect search engine, it cannot afford to rest on its laurels. The company’s comments came at an event billed as a “state of the union” on search as it unveiled new products…
Families are more prepared to sacrifice food and school uniforms than access to the internet in the recession, according to a survey. The Digital Families report found technology is no longer a discretionary household expenditure and 11 million families are…
Real-world tests of a 200Mbps cable modem service have commenced in Ashford. Virgin Media has signed up 100 “lead adopters” who will, in a trial process similar to that used to test 50Mbps services in 2007, use the service on…
First it would have to demonstrate that there has been foul play – but judging by the stopphoulplay.com website, which went live on Tuesday morning, the software company Phorm doesn’t have much to go on apart from its own continuing…
The global supply on internet bandwidth could soon be outstripped by demand, which is growing at 60 percent per annum, according to US-based technology think tank Nemertes Research. it is not the first time that the company is saying that…
A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry. But the…
Music-streaming service Spotify has hit a million users, according to its UK Managing Director Paul Brown. Speaking at the MediaGuardian’s Radio Reborn conference on Monday, he revealed that the music service has gone from strength to strength since its official…
Communications companies are being asked to record all internet contacts between people to modernise police surveillance tactics in the UK. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith stepped back from a single database – but wants companies to hold and organise the information…