The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.

Pierre Chappaz, the former president of Yahoo Europe, claims to have a source, whom he says is generally very well informed, who told him that Google is planning on buying the Opera web browser.

MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.

Britain is to get its own version of LonelyGirl15, the video diary of a Californian teenager which became a YouTube phenomenon, generating 50 million views.

US authorities are looking at Second Life as part of a crackdown on Internet gambling.

A new site aims to take a bite out of Wikipedia's hold on the user-created online encyclopedia market and improve accuracy by requiring contributors to use their real names.

With a virtual drum roll, online video-sharing Web site YouTube on Monday announced the winners of its inaugural awards, paying tribute to the wannabe stars who have used the site as a launching pad to fast fame.

The online reference work was dealt a serious blow last week as it emerged that EssJay, a Wikipedia editor understood by the site and its users to be a tenured professor of religion at a private university with expertise in canon law, was in fact a 24 year old from Kentucky called Ryan Jordan with no higher educational qualifications to speak of.

Figures for the webcast — when Sita went into labor and gave birth to a healthy girl within 30 minutes — are not yet available, but BBC Web producer Kevin Heathorn said he expected them to be in the vicinity of 30,000 or more.

The internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the web. Can you trust it?