So there is going to be a defamation bill.   It was in the Queen’s Speech, and the Ministry of Justice has published a bill with explanatory notes.   There has even been a first reading in the House of Commons, and there is a handy tracker page on Parliament’s website, so it must be true.   There is going to be a defamation bill and this means that there is going to be statutory reform of the law of libel.  And such statutory intervention means reform more fundamental than can be done by the co...  show all text

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Editor’s note: Dan Scholnick is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where he invests in early stage cloud computing and consumerized IT companies such as New Relic, dotCloud, StackMob, Cloudscaling, and Loggly. You can read more about Dan at the Trinity Ventures website or follow him on Twitter @dschol. He is not an investor in Facebook, though he wishes he were. Judging by many of the headlines on Friday, you might think that Facebook’s IPO was a miserable failure.  The Wall Street Journal d...  show all text

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Mark Zuckerberg has long encouraged other industries to follow the lead of the gaming business, which he believes has been transformed by social media. The Facebook CEO often points to companies like Zynga, which have built massive businesses entirely on Facebook’s platform, as a model for industries like music, books and of course, media.

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Last week Steve Hilton left his job at 10 Downing Street. Bruce Anderson reflects on the "highly divisive background briefing" - including claims of £25 billion in extra welfare cuts, the uselessness of the civil service and a 'chillaxed' style of premiership - that has been credited to the PM's outgoing guru, all sourced from a series of valedictory lunches. Steve Hilton had some outstanding qualities, which is just as well for him. Otherwise, a man who can also be so impossible could not have...  show all text

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Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men attended the rally, which was held to discuss the potential dangers of Internet use and the temptations that can come from social media and pornography.

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Bee Gees' singer Robin Gibb has died aged 62 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family say.

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Robin Gibb one-third of the Bee Gees died Sunday after a long battle with cancer his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement Gibb was 62 years old "The family of Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and...

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A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot petting zoo, a piano made of bananas, and a cardboard Trojan Horse. Plus a zillion different interactive attractions, classes, and events for kids of all ages. Yes, the Maker Faire is back in town, and only just in time. It was exactly the tonic I needed after my inability to get excited about the Facebook  show all text

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Editor’s Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ahaislip. Congratulations to Facebook for going public. Congratulations to the employees that are now millionaires. Congratulations to the founders who are now billionaires. Congratulations to the bankers, lawyers and investors who have added to their already considerable wealth. You’ve grasped the brass ring we’...  show all text

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Can you sign the petition to stop the government's plans for more phone and internet snooping powers?

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The Surrey town of Staines officially changes its name to Staines-upon-Thames in an attempt to boost its riverside image.

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A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan — some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter’s refusal to block these images; and some believe while it was testing an image filtering service. Whatever it was, the site is now back up –after an order from Prime Minister. Pakistan’s Express Tribune is reporting that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made the decision after the site was down for the day on a mandate from t...  show all text

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YouView, an internet connected set-top box backed by the BBC, is finally set to launch this summer ,two years behind schedule, a shareholder has confirmed.

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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It's as good as superhero films are ever likely to get, which is excellent news because they can stop making them now Last Monday, because I've been feeling out of the loop, I resolved to catch the new Avengers movie. I call it "the Avengers movie" – in fact, the word "Assemble" was added to the UK release so it wouldn't be confused with the 1960s TV series of the same name. Thus the film I saw was called Marvel Avengers Assemble 3D, which sounds like a badly translated Japanese videogame from ...  show all text

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An engineer friend of mine recently extolled to me the virtues of Legos for teaching math and engineering concepts to children. As he talked, I thought back to my experiences with Legos, which had been somewhat limited and mostly involved building square house shapes and furnishing them with benches and tables.  I realized that even as a girl raised in a fairly feminist, evolved family, my first real experience with a schematic really didn’t come until I was a teenager when for a while I built ...  show all text

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Smart devices have empowered customers and now companies are having to change to meet their demands, writes JP Rangaswami.

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We fell in love with Kathy Burke when she appeared on our screens as Waynetta Slob and Linda in Gimme Gimme Gimme. Now she's written a TV drama based on her 70s childhood that will steal hearts. She shares…

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London has become the scene of a big-money race to find an internet firm with potential to be as profitable as the US social networking site Davor Hebel, a Croatian-born and US-educated partner at Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, a £100m fund, is explaining where venture capital (VC) investors fit into London's technology ecosystem. It all boils down to the question of whether you back the jockey or the horse. Angel, "seed" or early-stage investors tend to back the jockey – the entrepreneurs th...  show all text

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Since dedicating myself to getting into "superhero shape," several articles regarding my weight have been brought to my attention. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there.

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Facebook founder and university sweetheart take vows at home hot on heels of social network's share market listing The newly enriched Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to "married". Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan wed at a small ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday, capping a week during which the social network he founded listed on the share market for more than $100bn. Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated moves...  show all text

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