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The Pope is feeling a little left out as YouTube chugs on growing more and more popular, so the Vatican have decided to join in on all the fun.  The Vatican is expected to announce today that they have indeed made a deal with Google to create a channel on YouTube devoted to the Pope. [...]

Social networking sites, such as favourites Facebook and MySpace, are set to jump on the greedy-train as news has surfaced that the sites are planning to charge good money to their users to partake in activities that they are currently taking for granted, such as uploading videos. Director of research for technology and telecommunications for [...]

A businessman whose personal details were ?laid bare? in fake libellous entries on social networking site Facebook has been awarded ?22,000 in damages today against a former friend who created the profile. ? Mathew Firsht, who is the MD of Applause Store Productions Ltd, sued old school fried, freelance cameraman Grant Raphael, for libel and [...]

A new study conducted by IDC and sponsored by Nortel has concluded that so-called hyperconnected workers account for 16 percent of global business users today and the percentage is set to grow to 40 percent within five years. ? Kelly Kanellakis, strategy and operations leader for the chief of technology officer in Nortel said, “The [...]

In a move which should eventually see all trial cases online going back to 1674, a group of universities have got together to set up a new online Old Bailey service using official documentation. Sheffield, Hertfordshire and the Open University have joined forces in a ground breaking move which will save time and expense for [...]

The social network leader Facebook has been investigated by OFCOM, the telecoms operator, who found that over half of young children who have access to the internet have a profile on Facebook. This was not an investigation of Facebook as such, just a look into the world of social networks, a world which has become [...]

As if the scandal surrounding the Phorm technology was not bad enough we have heard today that BT actually conducted yet another trial back in 2006 without the knowledge of those involved. It has been revealed that up to 18,000 surfers had their browsing activities collected and used to profile adverts at their specific interests. [...]

While there has been much controversy with regards to the power of social networking sites such as MySpace, BEBO and Facebook to name but a few, it seems that they have been welcomed into the fold by the BBC.? It has been announced that clips for their programs will be show on Rupert Murdoch?s MySpace [...]