The influence that Google's browser has had on the market is broader than its actual use. On Chrome's second anniversary, Google releases the sixth stable version

Alongside Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait," lots of pop-up windows and videos incorporating real street scenes from Google Street View are among the highlights of this crafty Chrome demo.

Woman in suburban Detroit was very excited to share her views about a trial. The defendant, she believed, was guilty of resisting arrest. So she posted her view to her friends and, depending on her privacy settings, quite a few other people too.

Remember a few years back when Gail Porter did a photo shoot for FHM? Well.. a few years have passed and … she's.. decided to do it again…

The United States Government knows that its plan to switch off the internet in the event of a cyber war and plunge the whole world into chaos will be a little controversial. So what it has done is place the enabling legislation as a footnote in a bill which is not related and has to be passed by the Senate.

Social not-working behemoth Facebook has been up to its old tricks again. The company decided to ban ads for Just Say Now's pro-use marijuana campaign, as well as blocking web platform Power.com from being mentioned by users.

Three Colombian teens were murdered in that country after death threats against them and 66 others were posted on Facebook, according to news reports from Colombia.

A school district in Florida is advising teachers not to "friend" students on social networking sites, claiming that teacher-student communication through this medium is "inappropriate."

An acquaintance of yours – someone you're only ‘friends' with on Facebook – asks what you're doing this weekend. You'd rather not hang out with him, so you lie. All clear, right? Before yesterday, only an awkward run-in or a blabbing friend could give you away. Now, there's a new potential snitch: Facebook Places.

So you're almost ready to unleash your Twitter and cat dating site mash-up on the world, but what to call it. What is a good name for a business start-up these days? And will the url of your dreams be available? That's where the tech start-up name generator Dot.Com.Roulette comes in.

The next version of Firefox will be "faster than anyone else," according to Mozilla's head of web development. Firefox 4 is due out later this year, but faces stiff competition from Google Chrome 6 and Internet Explorer 9.

Facebook Inc. introduced a service that makes it easier for users to share their whereabouts with other people, making a deeper push into a fast-growing market pioneered by Foursquare Labs Inc.

A recent presentation indicated that Google's Chrome Web Store should be ready by October, and that would mean devices couldn't be that far behind.

While North Korea was last month threatening to deal out "the severest punishment no one has ever met in the world" to its southern neighbour, the country's government was also quietly opening up a new front in the propaganda war – an official Twitter account.

Non-BT networks will have to pay a £20 tax for every home they connect to a fibre-based next-generation network, according to proposals from the Valuation Office Agency.

Microsoft released the first IE back in 1995, but arguably the browser has never been more important to Redmond's future.

The BBC is worried that HTML5 may be "sailing off course", as different companies push the standard toward proprietary implementations rather than keep it open.

India may ask Google, Skype and other online service providers to allow the country's law enforcement agencies to access communications on their networks, the head of an Internet association said on Friday.

Even with its 500 million users and omnipresence in society, Facebook is not discounting the threat posed by Google's supposed plans to launch a social network, according to a new report. Instead, the company's gone into a sort of "lockdown" in response.

A newly formed Facebook Users' Union believes the website should consult its millions of users on how it best uses the profits made from their freely given data.