Middle-aged learning to love social networking sites
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are no longer the preserve of the young with middle-aged people logging on to them in ever larger numbers, according to Ofcom, the …
Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update
Apple released the next — and potentially last — upgrade to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system Wednesday afternoon, bringing minor tweaks before the debut of Snow Leopard …
Google launches Chrome themes
With computer users spending ever longer periods of time online, themes are a popular way of customising the look and feel of the browser window.
O2 to lose iPhone deal as its network crashes
On the day that O2’s data network crashed for the third time in a month, it was reported that the Spanish-owned carrier is on the point of losing its exclusive …
Emails ‘sent by dead’
A messaging service to send emails from beyond the grave has been launched called the Last Messages Club
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly
Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can …
Twitter at the heart of new, cheap smartphones
The INQ Chat 3G and Mini 3G contain a Twitter client that will always be on after the initial log-in. Consumers can send Twitter messages, and updates are delivered straight …
iPhone grabs 32% of global handset profits
Apple’s iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry’s handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.