Google Buzz has a great deal of work to do to convince even tech-literate Web users that it's a viable service, a CNET UK survey shows. We asked our exquisitely discerning readers what they think of Gmail's status-updates feature and the results are in.

Google will make a further 210,000 miles of UK roads available for your perusal on Street View this Thursday, adding to the 28,000 miles that are currently shown. That means you'll be able to see about 96 per cent of this leafy land's approximately 246,985 miles of thoroughfares.

Some of you may not know but Google Earth can be used for more than just getting an aerial view of places around the globe and on the ground with Street View, you can play games as well. Google Earth Blog have put together what they think are some of the best Google Earth games – so let us take a look at them.

Security researchers report that malware has been discovered on a Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone running Google's Android operating system.

Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.

170 Chinese punters have filed a complaint through their lawyers for the government to recall faulty HP laptops.

Is the email program dead? Did the whole world just migrate away from Hotmail over to Facebook when we weren't looking? Does anyone else care?

First you could waddle in front of a Wii, then Microsoft joined the motion control party with the oddly named Project Natal. Now, at long last, fans of handwaving can get their wiggle-on in front of a PS3.

Once again, rumours are making their rounds that Google is going to make some sort of set-top box play. The latest: the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is working with Dish Network on a new feature that would let users search both TV content and web videos on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system".

A Florida Highway Patrol officer has admitted his incredulity at a woman who pranged her car while shaving her privates.

The premise of Wikipedia is laudable. A knowledge depository written and edited by the people, for the people. The glue that keeps the site together is an evolving set of policies and guidelines, but, these guidelines are open to much interpretation and debate. Here are 10 of Wikipedia's daftest discussions.

An odd lot, those Android modders. Clearly bored, one of them tinkered with Android a bit until it responded to the accelerometer all the way round. So now, whenever you turn your T-Mobile G1 round, the display turns too. But not just between portrait and landscape modes – all they way round, turning your homescreen completely upside down.

Microsoft is to launch its UK video-on-demand service today with hundreds of hours of programmes, including Skins, Kingdom, Faking It and Waterloo Road, and has promised that online high-definition viewing will follow.

Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that purchases and rental of HD movies from the 6 major studios, namely, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution are available on the Playstation Network video delivery service. This news simultaneously crowns the Playstation 3 as the first game console with HD movies from those studios.

An upcoming musical video game lets players strum a real six-string electric guitar instead of tapping buttons on a fake instrument. Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is a game first and foremost. But its maker, Seven45 Studios, said players will be able to plug the guitar that comes with it into a standard amp and play real music.

As usual, Linux was everywhere at last week's Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. Especially in Europe, the open source OS seems to be more popular than ever in markets represented at the show, which include industrial, automotive, military, telecommunications, and consumer electronics.

The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

Playing with apps on an Android phone is fun. Building your own apps, even more so. But what about using the phone to operate a moving, talking bot? Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have done exactly that.

Sony, apparently, wants to change the demo paradigm. In a March 4 US Patent and Trademark Office filing uncovered by Siliconera, the company has patented the technology to make demos that lose functionality over time. The more a player plays the demo, the more features of the demo will cease working--and the more it will ask the player to buy the full version.

So 3D is ready for its close up . . . right? Well, maybe not. While the industry players have hammered out technical standards that allow many 3D-ready components to work together -- any 3D Blu-ray player should work with any 3D television, for instance -- they haven't established one for the new type of 3D glasses that work with the sets.