The Godiva Festival’s new website was launched last week as preparations for this year’s festival begin to gather speed.
The new site includes a wealth of web 2.0 technologies including streaming video, user galleries and blogs. Additional functionality including streaming audio, podcasts and a community forum will also be made available in the build up to [...]

Hailed as a potential rival to search giant Google, new computation knowledge engine “Wolfram Alpha” has gone live to the public.
The new system was invented by British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram and is aiming to change the way people use online data.
Instead of presenting a list of third party websites where one can find the data [...]

There’s a big rumour doing the rounds at the moment that Google are on the verge of securing a deal to acquire the Internet’s new golden child, Twitter.
The price hasn’t been confirmed but one can only assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.
Twitter turned down [...]

Evidence continues to mount that despite our slowing economy the web continues to be a key driver of both survival and success.
Research by Internet firm, Easynet Connect, has revealed that nearly half of small firms believe the Internet will be the most important tool to help them survive the recession.
The study showed that many small [...]

The Conservative party yesterday implemented an audacious online ambush of Alistair Darling’s budget, with the aim of buying up Google keywords and directing internet users to its “live rebuttal” of the chancellor’s speech.
The Tories plan was to buy up budget-related Google keywords as the chancellor mentions them in his speech from 12.30pm, in an online [...]