2010 according to Facebook: Justin Bieber, the Miners and the internet slang

At the end of the year Facebook release statistics about what people what been writing about in their statuses and it's always fascinating. In 2010 it seems we were concerned about natural disasters, but that most of all we wanted to hang out with our friends. Hence the rise of internet acronym - HMU -…

Microsoft Montage curates the web for you: but why?

We can't get enough curation these days - and tech leviathan Microsoft has just heaved itself onto the bandwagon with a little enterprise called Montage announced at LeWeb yesterday. It's a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App, where you tap a topic in and it whizzes up data about that topic into a smart and pretty magazine…

Yota to offer free wireless broadband to customers – will other networks follow

There's a good story over at TechDigest which focuses on international mobile wireless company Yota's intention not to charge consumers for web access, voide/data etc in the future. Rodion Shishkov, the VP Services of 4G telecoms company Yota, argues 'In a few years Internet access as a paid service won't exist any more. Rather than…

25% cut in BBC online confirmed – what's going to go?

Digital radio station 6 music was saved, but the 25% cut to BBC online has just been confirmed by a BBC Review announced today, and it's a harsh scaling back of the media operations on web. It seems wrong to let the cuts fall on the fastest growing area of the BBC - new media,…

Stuffed in the city: Send Teddy to New York for Christmas

Can't afford a trip abroad but want your favourite teddy bear to experience the thrills of foreign travel? The answer to that may be no, but new travel company - Stuffed in the City - which is offering just that, may be about to win you over. Let's think of it as a way to…

Internet finally overtakes TV as Americans spend more time online

A milestone was passed today as Forrester revealed that Americans now spend more time on the internet than watching TV. I've always been an internet-over-TV girl, but it's significant that that's now the norm. It's not that TV use has fallen back, more that internet use has shot up by 121% in five years. Now…

Watch this: film Catfish is a thriller about a Facebook romance and it's great

The latest must-watch film about the internet is a tale of internet romance, online personas and the fine, fine line between reality and virtual reality. Catfish is funny, and low-key: New York film-maker Ariel decides to film his younger brother Nev when he gets an email from a fan of his photography and an internet…

VIDEO: How to make a Guinness World Record with your iPad

No, you don't have to eat it, make a house out of it, or anything weird like that, all you need to do is play a little iPad game better than anyone else and you could genuinely be in the new Guinness book of World Records when it comes out this Spring. The game is…

4G internet and how mobile data could be free in 3 years time

Free mobile internet sounds like some crazy pipe dream, especially while we're all shelling out ££s each month for data contracts on our phones. But it's one of the possible results of the new 4G networks that are gradually rolling out around the world. 4G won't come to the UK until around 2014, but it…

Electric Eel powers Christmas tree lights.. #WeirdChristmas

If you're worried about power cuts over this festive season, it may be worth keeping a few of these beauties stored up for emergencies. Electric eels can officially power a tree's-worth of christmas lights. They're like wriggly, water-borne batteries. And hell they look a lot more exciting than them too. It was Japanese scientists who…