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Search engine giant Google have taken another step to try and dethrone Facebook with their latest attempt at a social network. Google’s attempts in the past – Google Wave and Google Buzz…

According to figures released by search engine giant Google, the British government is one of the most likely in the world to request information on peoples web usage. The ‘Transparency Report’ listed…

The ‘Winklevoss’ twins, Tyler and Cameron have restarted the long running legal battle with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg . Just days after their case was dropped, the Winklevoss twins have accused Facebook…

On-line consumer groups have criticised proposals for websites which stream copyrighted material for free to be banned in the UK. This follows last weeks meeting between communications minister EdVazey, internet service providers…

Data figures released from Comscore have revealed that search engine giant Google and their associated websites were visited 1billion times during May. This landmark figure is the first for any company, and…

Fallen giant of the social networking world, Myspace, is up for sale once again and reports are that it could fetch its current owners ‘News Corporation’ over $100m. Myspace was the pinnacle…

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has voted to allow the creation of new web domain suffixes in a move that could hugely change the internet world. Currenlty there…

The first laptop running Google’s ‘chrome’ operating system has gone on sale in the United States. The machine which is made by Samsung replaces traditional ‘desktop’ files with browser based apps which…

Google have made further steps to increase the speed at which users get the information they are looking for. The 2 newest updates see the introduction of Google ‘Instant Pages’ and also…