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.

Megan Singleton abandons the classy black felt tip eyeliner of her teens and turns to the internet for proper makeup advice.

Apple's just-announced iPad looks like a giant iPhone, but it's a lot more than that.

Cyberspace is the new battleground between hostile nations, says Microsoft

The micro-blogging website Twitter has finally turned a profit after making a deal with Google and Bing.

China today denied any state involvement in cyber attacks on Google and continued to defend their censorship of the internet.

US senators are urging US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take more proactive steps in supporting organisations that promote 'Internet freedom' in countries such as Iran and China, where severe Internet restrictions are enforced.

Microsoft will issue a security patch for Internet Explorer after it was revealed that a vulnerability in the web browser was to blame for last week's hacks on Gmail accounts.

Every year most of the security vendors' forecasts predict dramatic spikes in volumes of spam, phishing, botnet activity, and malware. Usually, they're right.

France and Germany have warned web users against using all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer to protect security.

Google has received more than 100 complaints about the Nexus One.