According to the findings of a survey by UK’s broadband ISP O2, consumers waste over £700 million – that is about £2.1 million per day - every year by going in for an internet service which is based on speeds rather than needs.

According to Hamadoun Touré, the secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), for the development of broadband networks worldwide, a clear and stable regulatory framework should be provided by the governments.

Putting up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage, the microblogging site’s chief executive Evan Williams disclosed on Tuesday that his service currently has 145 million registered accounts and nearly 300,000 apps using its open API.

According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s Thursday report, while texting is on the rise among adults, texting among teenagers is far more rampant – with teenagers apparently sending as many as five times the text messages sent by their adult counterparts.

In what apparently marks one of the web’s fastest-growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace International has revealed that Facebook users have joined the movement that is urging the popular social network to dump its plans of buying electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new US data center.

In an attempt to allow customers the effortless shifting of workloads between their own infrastructure and the Verizon cloud, Verizon Business is introducing a new service which will be based on two new VMware products – vCloud Director and vShield – which were unveiled at the VMworld conference at San Francisco on Tuesday.