Google bought On2 and now, as predicted, it's releasing its V8 codec so that web users can watch videos without using the patent-encumbered and expensive...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is encouraging a purge of indecent images, while publishers targeting the iPad may be trying to avoid gratuitous nipples Wikipedia has...

Apple tops today's selection of news links with the threat of a US anti-trust investigation.

Ning's new chief executive has announced that the site is going to shed staff, stop its free service and concentrate on its premium users.

Plus a Twitter infographic, Ning cutbacks, iPad annoyances, Apple security, second-division Vaios and other links from around the web Porn virus publishes web history of...

Twitter passed another milestone when a person unknown posted the system's 10 billionth tweet Overnight, Twitter flew past the 10bn tweet milestone, according to the...

It's probably not a "phishing attack": Microsoft Windows users in Europe are now starting to get a screen that offers them a choice of web...

About 75,000 personal computers in almost 2,500 companies and government agencies worldwide have been caught in a botnet based on a new variant of the...

It's hard to believe that YouTube, which now streams more than 1bn videos a day, only registered its domain name five years ago People who...

Google has finally joined the ranks of technology companies that invest in university research, and its first $5.7m in Google Focused Research Awards will benefit...

IE8 has just taken the "most used" spot from IE6, which has been hit by the decline in the use of Windows XP, on Net...

If you've been browsing around, you'll probably have noticed a lot of adverse reaction to the Apple iPad – at least among the geeks …...

Firefox isn't supporting the H.264 video standard because it's patented and the patent owners want fees: it's not free.

Now you can create an instant playlist of YouTube music videos, and find related artists using its Disco feature, and the company is also offering...

People have been waiting for Google to enter the online storage market with its rumoured game-changing Gdrive, but instead it has decided to start small….