Facebook is testing a new system that instantly targets ads based on the content of members' wall posts and status updates.

As Larry Page's ascension to the chief executive post this week marks a coming of age for him, Google itself is also coming of age in another way.

Attempts to develop phones for the female market have included a pink clamshell which opened to reveal a makeup mirror.

It's the battle of the apps between planet Apple and Amazon backed by Google's Android army. Tony Murrow explains the clash of the titans

The latest incarnation of Internet Explorer comes at a time when the competition between web browsers is at its fiercest. Nick Clark reports

Would you want the world to know what you do online? Several new services think that you do.

YouTube is no longer just about building a buzz on emerging artists and new albums. The largest labels are making "millions of dollars a month" from the advertising alongside their videos.

That Apple makes money from apps is not news. But it's the way it works that has hacked off fanboys and disenchanted developers.

If you're a typical parent, I bet you're continually chiding your children for chewing up your home internet bandwidth allowance, watching videos on YouTube.

Much of Christchurch is without essential services after yesterday's earthquake with gas, power, water and phone infrastructure all affected.

AT&T Inc.'s CEO Randall Stephenson, expressed frustration with the way applications are sold to smart phone users, saying customers should be able to buy an application once and have it work across many different devices.

Apple's secrecy has encouraged much speculation about the company's plans.

There's a growing murmur that it may have lost its mojo in the one area it had unquestionably conquered - search.

Egyptians, blocked from the internet, are being offered a way by Google and Twitter to "tweet" by using a voice connection.

Major changes are on the way for public sector information technology.

Gartner estimates that smartphone users will download a shopping 17.7 billion apps - worth US$15bn - this year.