What is required is a more holistic and balanced approach to educating families as to how to support young children in their use of the Internet.

Have you seen weird messages popping up on your favourite websites today? From today, new legislation in the UK means websites must ask you before ...

The introduction of 4G internet could result in the safeguarding of thousands of jobs, £5.5 billion investment in the UK and could save workers 37 mi...

They brought us the first popular free email service in Hotmail. Now Microsoft is playing catch up to Facebook, opening up its So.cl social network to...

More than half of the UK population claim to be contemplating revenge and social networks are the preferred platform for getting even, new research ha...

Think about how much time you spend on the internet every day. You make up one third of the world’s population that now browses the web, be it for w...

Manchester residents are 9% more likely than the average UK web users to visit Facebook in a given month. 500 million hours are spent on Facebook ...

Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is set to launch a new project aimed at covering every aspect of life in one Welsh town. Monmouth in south Wales wil...

Facebook shares are being offered to the public for 38 US dollars (£24) in one of the biggest ever US stock flotations. The social media giant is ...

There's one thing that the US is clearly better at than the UK, and that's computer hacking. Our friends across the pond have smashed us in th...

Twitter has told the BBC it now wants to have a closer role with government and policymakers in the UK....

Record labels' new-found enthusiasm for ending their iTunes dependence has created an opportunity for new digital music services....

Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to The Verge's sources. The Xbox 360 curre...

This summer's London Olympics "will not be immune" to cyber attacks by those seeking to disrupt the Games, a Cabinet minister warned today. Cabinet...

You might 'like' your friends on Facebook. But do you like them enough to save a life with an organ donation? From today, you can share whether or...

The people behind the world's largest illegal file-sharing website have said they will "stand united" against a legal bid to block access to their sit...

The end is nigh, according to the FBI. "Internet doomsday" will strike us all on 9 July when the domain name service changer virus will disconnect man...

Downloads of Instagram’s Android application continue to grow at an impressive rate, today hitting 10 million downloads on the Google Play Marketpla...

The rumours said we'd get 100GB free cloud storage. Google Drive has instead launched its new cloud-based storage system with 5GB of free storage with...

Iran has had to close one of its major oil facilities after it was shutdown by malware virus attacks, according to reports. The BBC reports that I...

A new world of resources is about to open up in outer space and it's backed by some pretty big investors: film director James Cameron and Google billi...

St George may not have even been English, and the dragon may not have existed either, but that's no reason not to celebrate St George's day Google Doo...

Controversial government plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of every person in the UK should ...