Facebook says it won't adopt the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre reporting button because it's own reporting system is more robust.

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

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.

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

Overnight, Twitter flew past the 10bn tweet milestone, according to the GigaTweet site, which tracks the microblogging service. It has taken more than three years to get there. However, Twitter's rapid growth means that the next 10bn should be knocked off in 203 days.

The Mozilla Foundation is best known for Firefox, but as Foundation head Mitchell Baker recently told us, the group's mission is not merely to produce a browser that kills Internet Explorer.

This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the show made a drastic change in strategy last night by consolidating all of them under the AI9Contestants username across sites.

A group of researchers plans to release a version of the Firefox browser that includes the built-in ability to view 3D graphics, a capability that could open the door for more interactive Web pages from developers.

New figures suggest Facebook's financials are healthier than expected - with the site on course to break a billion dollars of revenue by the end of the year.

These heavy-hitting browser add-ons act like applications that could easily replace their desktop counterparts.

Facebook and Twitter scams are sweeping the net, offering users the chance to beta test an Apple iPad.

The internet created a cash free-for-all but many of the pioneer firms soon crashed. A decade on, James Ashton looks at what made some into lasting winners and drove others to early graves.

The BBC seems to have started using a Flash player verification service that stops the iPlayer from streaming for more than a minute or two to unauthorised media players, hitting users of the open source XBMC.

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.

Google Chrome's increase in usage share in January and February 2010. Chrome is managing to hurt not only Microsoft's IE but also Mozilla's Firefox. According to statistics from Net Applications, Google Chrome was the only major browser to gain market share in January 2010.

What distinguishes the following social networks from the likes of Facebook is that they're designed to be exclusive, attracting a few thousand or even a few hundred like-minded individuals. Oh, and you usually have to be invited by a member to join or go through a rigorous approvals process. Jealous, much?

A collection of video footage of the horrific tsunamis that have struck in the past.

In the light of the recent phishing attack that compromised Twitter accounts of several prominent politicians, the UK government has announced that all its departments will have the freedom to opt for other web browsers as there is no rule about only using the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.

Google have had a hard time just recently, not only have they got of to a poor start with Google Buzz, they have now been told that they have to remove images on Street View in 6 months rather than 12. This is a popular feature that users have been enjoying on Google Maps and Google Earth.

College-age users of Facebook in the United States and a similar social networking site in Germany typically present accurate versions of their personalities in online profiles, says psychologist Mitja Back of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. People use online social networking sites to express who they really are rather than idealized versions of themselves, Back and his colleagues conclude in an upcoming Psychological Science.