If you're PressSec — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' username on Twitter — you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama's record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter.

Google has backed HTC, its smartphone manufacturer, after the Taiwanese company was sued for patent infringement by Apple. The move sets the stage for a major battle between Apple and Google, formerly close partners, in the smartphone market.

n a wide-ranging interview today Opera chairman Jon von Tetzchner talked about the Browser Choice ruling, Opera's iPhone app, Google as a competitor, and how P2P will be the next generation of the web.

Apple's iTunes Music store, could have earned the company anything up to a whopping £790 million, following news that the 10 billionth song had been downloaded this week.

Nearly three-quarters of Android users are guys, according to a new report. So what gives?

If you like to watch YouTube previews from within Gmail, you're in luck. But if you were a fan of features that allowed you to add your location or a random quote to your signature, you won't be pleased.

A post on the Flash Mobile blog claims that the impact of running Flash on the Google Nexus One is only around 6 percent, noting “Our own tests show that video can be played for well over 3Hours over WIFI from youtube in H.264.” Gruber points out the bad math in the post noting that the Nexus One is rated for 7 hours of video playback time.

Robotic devices that detect not only being touched but also where and how much force was applied are being developed by researchers in the US and the UK.

Now that Google has completed its acquisition of video compression outfit On2 Technologies, a representative of the Free Software Foundation has urged Mountain View to release On2's latest codec under an irrevocable free license and use it to replace Adobe Flash on YouTube.

Apple has been urged to provide more specific guidelines on suitable content for iPhone applications after it pulled one that had apparently been downloaded by nearly a million people.