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Investors are pumping money into web services that are reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world’s most popular social network?
Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking — but will they also be using the company’s new social networking features?
There were concerns that the idea of a crash course in the future was a gimmick. However, the project gained a number of backers and more than m.
Headlines abound suggesting that the majority of people are going to avoid the new operating system — but it might not be over for Bill Gates.
In the early 90s he helped to shape the internet. Now Douglas Rushkoff is back — with a plan to wrest control from our big corporations.
Revealing documents from a court deposition last year show exactly what Steve Jobs thinks of his role at Apple.
Apple is not the first company to fall foul of the ban, which has been in place for five years.
The billionaire co-founder is seen as an obstacle to change and the lower share price may attract a new Microsoft bid, writes Bobbie Johnson.
Experts have long known it is easier to lie in writing than in real life, where deception is made more difficult by physical prompts.
Critics of ultra-violent video games will not be the only ones watching carefully as the latest instalment of the <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> series is released: the suits in…
The technology group Apple has come in for criticism after forcing a website dedicated to reporting on the company’s activities to close down. The ThinkSecret site, which…
”Education was always known as the kiss of death in the software industry. But I think you want to focus on getting the player interested and emotionally involved.” Game designer…
When British dotcom entrepreneur Calum Brannan had his first meeting with potential investors last year, he immediately encountered a problem. My uncle had driven me down to…
Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities, but a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to…
Spider-Man may have wowed movie-goers and wooed comic fans for decades, but the idea of a wall-crawling human has always been a work of fiction. Now, however, British researchers…
Two musical dinosaurs hit the wall last week — and Top of the Pops wasn’t one of them. Metallica, rock monsters who had hitherto refused to play nicely with the net, finally…
Inside a gloomy tower block on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow a team of young computer programmers is deep in concentration. In a former life it was a nuclear research…
Bill Gates doesn’t like to lose. When the Microsoft chairperson and his chief executive, Steve Ballmer, played a game onstage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last…
In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a…
In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a…
