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Google says the first Google Chrome OS powered netbooks will be ready by the second half of 2010

Google Chrome OS computers will be available in 2010

Google has announced that its much-anticipated web based operating system, Chrome OS, will be available within a year.

YouTube adds full length TV shows

By Emma Barnett

YouTube has launched a new section of its site dedicated to playing full length episodes from popular series such as Channel 4’s Peep Show and Hollyoaks.

China bans Microsoft from selling operating systems

By James Quinn

Microsoft has been banned from selling multiple versions of its flagship Windows operating system in China after breaching a local licensing agreement.

'Ireland needs to ramp up and fund more internet business start-ups'

By John Kennedy

Internet Hero and entrepreneur Colm Lyon has built up a global online-payments powerhouse

Dawn of a new ultra-mobile era

By Marie Boran

COMPUTING really only 'arrived' when it became personal, when the computer was small, affordable and intuitive enough to take pride of place in the family home and now, as Moore's Law would have it, in most small bags.

A world without cables

For a century the modern world has been caught in a growing web of copper cables. They have become arteries that power the globe, but, from the jumble of cords cluttering our desks to the miles of wires hidden in our walls, they are also an expensive nuisance binding our gadgets to the grid.

YouTube launches citizen journalism channel

By Emma Barnett

YouTube has launched YouTube Direct, a dedicated channel for citizen journalism, in an attempt to better connect news organisations with user generated content.

Apple patent suggests ad-supported OS on the way

By Jerome Taylor

Apple fans are calling it the cyber equivalent of the holiday time share sales pitch: attend a seminar for a few hours on our wonderful holiday village and we’ll give you a weekend there absolutely free.

Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy

By Emma Barnett

Jimmy Wales is eating dinner alongside Princess Caroline of Monaco. Web royalty has come to meet the real thing. Wales, the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the Monaco Media Prize at the principality’s annual invite-only media forum.