Twentysomethings could care less about television, particularly late night television. That more or less sums up the “terrible difficulties” NBC executives face these days as they decide the fate of The Tonight Show with Conan …

Google is the big story of the day, demanding China make nice. Unless the People’s Republic stops censoring the people’s search queries, and stops hacking the people’s Gmail accounts, then Google will have little …

It should be the first commandment of new gadget launches — if you’ve invested vast sums in developing the next “iPhone killer” you’re going to need serious positive buzz at launch to convince a skeptical …

It’s a big day for Ford with the release of the new Focus, the company’s new global compact and a vehicle that has been heralded in some quarters as being as important to the automaker …

As the legend goes, the modern-day cheeze pizza was invented in the late 19th Century by a pizzaiolo from Naples who devised the simple, but genius, tomatoes-mozzarella-basil-olive oil-combination to impress her majesty, Queen Margherita of …

Angry Tweets about his slow moving Eurostar train failed to get Europe minister Chris Bryant any satisfaction this week. As the Press Association reports, Bryant posted to Twitter a series of gripes about his slow-moving …

It’s a snow day for much or Britain today, but not for the crack staff at Marks & Spencer running the retailer’s timely Twitter feed. The retailer has surely hit some rocky times. Business is not so great, but today it provides a glimpse of the future of retail. In 140 characters or less.

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Social Media continues to exert its influence in the political world. The number of MPs with a major Twitter habit, sometimes Tweeting from inside the chamber, was evident last night as the results of the House …

Few software engineers get around quite like Kevin Marks. The Harrow-born programmer / blogger / open standards advocate announced on his blog on Monday that he’s leaving Google. His next stop? Destination unknown. But Brand …