Mark Harris in Seattle

Strategy Analytics today released its forecast for worldwide social virtual worlds, noting a 23 per cent compounded annual growth rate from 2009 to 2015.

Apple today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows.

A realistic computer game will soon be used to help dental students worldwide learn and reinforce dental implant procedures.

Firefox today launched Add-on Collections, a way to use and share collections of browsing extensions.

JVC has announced that it will be shipping the world's slimmest 32-inch LCD panel in Japan this August.

Intel Corporation has agreed to buy embedded software company Wind River for $884 million in its first acquisition in four years.

Stephen Wolfram has announced a live Q&A session about his new computational knowledge engine, WolframAlpha, for Thursday June 4 at 10pm UK time.

Computex 2009 Reset your alarm clocks by 24 hours, Windows 7 is launching a day before everyone expected.

Nokia's long awaited application and media store will feature 20,000 items at launch, according to a report by Forbes.

Social networking is victim of technology scaremongering

In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics, a team from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy has created the world's smallest incandescent lamp.

Today, Maxis, an Electronic Arts studio, announced that since launching the Spore Creature Creator in June 2008, Spore fans have created and uploaded 100 Million creations.

Facebook has updated the Friend page, making it easier to find and organise your friends, filter the content you see on your homepage, and manage your privacy settings.

President Obama will soon be getting his BlackBerry back, following an upgrade that encrypts call and texts to Top Secret level.

A $19 million patent infringement verdict was handed down yesterday in favour of technology provider Opti Inc. of Palo Alto against computer software giant Apple Inc.

Ars Technica is reporting that the iPhone upgrade due to arrive in June will feature voice control and feedback

At today's RSA Conference, IBM introduced new services, hardware and software aimed at improving the security of cloud computing environments,

Seattle Mariners' fans to benefit from wireless food, drink and info network

Will it appear in Snow Leopard at WWDC in June?

The Momitsu BDP-899 could be the first Blu-ray player to ship without region coding, allowing it to playback Blu-ray and DVD discs bought anywhere in the world.