A city in America's Midwest has taken the battle to be chosen as a test site for Google's new ultrafast broadband network to extremes

Pete LePage, Microsoft's senior product manager for Internet Explorer - the little blue 'e' that gets you on the internet - talks IE9, Apple's Flash stance and browser powers.

Telecommunications reporter Helen Twose looks at the latest and greatest from the show floor at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Stumped by foreign languages when you're travelling? Google is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera.

Nokia and Intel are combining the software they've each been developing for smart phones, tablet computers and other internet devices.

The latest version of the Windows Mobile operating system will be called 'Windows Phone 7 series' and looks a lot like the Zune media player interface.

Google's new Buzz social hub features is set automatically to 'on' - and shares Gmail users' information without asking.

People flooded social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after the fatal crash of an Olympic luger yesterday, eager to read the latest, and quickest, details of the horrific accident.

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp spent US$580m on MySpace. Four years later he hired AOL's Jonathan Miller to rescue it. He fired founder Chris De Wolfe and hired Owen Van Natta from Facebook. Ten months later, he's out too.

Google to build mega-fast broadband networks

Google is making a belated attempt to force its way into the social networking sphere - but the industry has come out swinging.