Internet trolls is one of the drawbacks of internet anonymity, but at least the police is catching on to this new menace. At least that was the case for Australian Bradley Hampson, 29, who will spend the next 7.5 months in prison after vandalising the Facebook tribute sites for two dead children. The disturbed man…

MetPro Rapid Response is the company used by London's Barnet Council to prevent bloggers from filming their budget cut meetings. Private security contractors MetPro was asked by the Council to stop some residents from entering the public gallery to see the council vote through cuts. The story has been documented by Barnet blogs such as…

We used to manage to keep track of each other in crowds once - then the mobile phone arrived and this skill was lost to history. The arrangers of the London Olympics might not have considered the full ramifications of this when they decided to issue a flat out ban on mobiles for all ticket…

Too many late nights in the office inducing guilt for not spending enough time with the kids? Not to worry, StoryTime is here to help. The Nursery Rhymes app for iPad and iPhone ($3.99 from iTunes) will let you read a book to your child from anywhere - choices include Humpty Dumpty, Jack & Jill,…

It is Lent after all - so there's something fitting about a Bible app. The Children's Bible app works for the iPhone and iPad both, and will give you the good word in story as well as cartoon form (official image above). The creators have just released a new version of this app, trusted by…

If this Friday is dragging, here's a little something to keep you occupied: installing My Taptu on your phone. My Taptu, the social newsreader app, has just been upgraded to provide custom made content streams, and it may well be the perfect way to navigate an increasingly buy stream of information competing for our attention.…

Those embarrassing boozy photos can come back to haunt us, this we know. But now there's research to back up this particular nugget of common sense. Two-thirds of lawyers said Facebook Facebook was the "primary source" of evidence in divorce proceedings, according to a survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). Photographs of…

The brand new Radeon HD 6990 graphics processor is the fastest graphics technology in the world - no small claim by semiconductor design company AMD, but it seems to be merited. 'This is for the really high-end gaming market,' Leslie Sobon, vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing at AMD, told Shiny Shiny. 'It's faster, more…

(Guest post from TechDigest) The Red Nose Day app will keep you in the loop on Comic Relief events, not to mention all the latest gossip. Available free of charge at the App Store, the software will give you all the latest news and celebrity videos. It will also hook you into the Red Nose…

With the wedding day set, Samuel Kim and Helen Oh weren't going to let a small thing like a lung infection ruin their big day. The fact that the groom was confined to a hospital isolation ward didn't stop them from carrying out their plans - via Skype. With guests flying in from abroad for…