Internet

It is a suburban scene much like millions of others on Google's Street View site... apart from one chilling addition. Lying face down on the pavement, her shoe inches away in the gutter, is the body of a young girl.

It would appear as if Google employees are testing a new and improved version of Gmail internally, according to a screenshot that was originally intended to highlight a bug within Google’s Chromium Operating System.

Researchers from the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Sciences and Harvard Medical School have developed an innovative way of tracking the nation's mood using tweets.

Germany's consumer minister, who vowed to delete her Facebook account in protest at the networking site's privacy policies, called Monday for an Internet "honour code" to protect personal data.

Google Inc. is telling lawmakers that it never dissected or used any of the information that it accidentally sucked up while collecting data about public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries.