Irish people are drinking 20% less overall than we were a decade ago, and less often.

A prolific paedophile who used the internet to target and blackmail young girls all over the world has been jailed in a case described as one of the worst the courts have ever seen.

A prolific paedophile who used the internet to target and blackmail young girls all over the world has been jailed in a case described as one of the worst the British courts have ever seen.

Microsoft Corp ratcheted back growth expectations for its internet and search engine unit last night as it took a $6.2bn writedown on the value of an online advertising company it bought five years ago.

Most people spend at least an hour every day gossiping, mainly at work, according to a UK study.

A Tipperary school teacher has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court charged with having child pornography on his computer.

MARAUDING gangs and criminals are attacking Somali famine refugees more frequently as they flee across the border to Kenyan camps, but Kenyan police say they do not have enough manpower to stop them.

A paedophile nursery worker pleaded guilty today to raping a toddler in his care and a string of offences linked to the online grooming of more than 20 other girls.

SOCCER star Kevin Doyle has raised awareness of the need to drink milk among young Irish consumers, the intended target audience of the National Dairy Council (NDC) Milk in Action campaign.

THE ringleader of an international child porn network was jailed for four years yesterday after he admitted sharing up to 100,000 indecent images on Facebook.

MICROSOFT unveiled its new controller-free, motion sensor system Kinect for Xbox 360 at a launch in Los Angeles.

SOCIAL networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are more important than family to a quarter of children, a survey in Britain found.

A “DEVIOUS” 48-year-old man who tricked two teenage girls on the internet into believing he was 17 and then raped them was yesterday jailed indefinitely.

GOOGLE’s partial withdrawal from China brought swift condemnation from the government while leaving Chinese web surfers to wonder whether they would be able to access a new offshore search engine site or be blocked by censors.

Convicted British sex offender Peter Chapman was jailed for life today after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of a teenager he ensnared on a social networking site.

A woman who had sex almost 200 times with a 12-year-old boy was today jailed for nine years.

Artists as diverse as Elton John and Jay-Z will offer world exclusive songs through a new music service being launched today to help fight Aids in Africa.

AIRCRAFT leaser AWAS has acquired an Airbus A319-100 and an Airbus A320-200 from International Lease Finance Corporation. The aircraft are powered by IAE V2500 engines.

Heather Mills’ 19-minute GMTV rant has been voted the “Most Cringeworthy Moment of 2007” by UK internet users.

HULU, an online video service formed by two media conglomerates, began private testing yesterday with two new partners in one of big media’s most ambitious attempts to court viewers wherever they spend time.

JK Rowling’s final Harry Potter novel has been voted the most spell-binding of the books about the teenage wizard.

MADONNA, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Razorlight are among the acts taking to the stage for a star-studded concert at Wembley Stadium to highlight the threat of climate change, it was announced yesterday.

Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Razorlight are among the acts taking to the stage for a star-studded concert at the new Wembley Stadium to highlight the threat of climate change, it was announced today.

Google is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them.

THERE is no foolproof way of allowing children to use the internet and keep them safe from predatory paedophiles.

Microsoft plans to officially launch its updated and renamed internet search engine today, in the latest bid to make headway against market leaders Yahoo and Google.

The European Union has threatened to fine Microsoft up to $2.36m(€2m) a day for failing to obey its 2004 antitrust ruling, saying the software giant was proving intransigent about sharing data with competitors.

Stocks barely moved today as investors wondered whether a welter of weak economic data would end the Federal Reserve’s year-long streak of interest rate rises.

PARLIAMENTARY elections have passed off peacefully in Kyrgyzstan despite opposition claims of vote rigging, electoral fraud and media manipulation in the Central Asian state.

MICROSOFT will go head-to-head with the likes of Google from today after the computer software giant launched a rival internet search tool.

Stacks of hard-to-find books are being scanned into Google’s widely used Internet search engine in its attempt to establish a massive online reading room for five major libraries.

Microsoft last night reported higher quarterly revenue, driven by strength in the personal computer sector, as overal IT global spending continued to grow.

MICROSOFT’S decision to close all chatrooms run through its MSN service will only marginally impact on paedophilia using the internet.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has welcomed a statement from the computer giant Microsoft promising to shut down most of the internet chat rooms under its control.

Computer giant Microsoft is to close most of its internet chatrooms around the world to protect youngsters from potential harm.

A new language has emerged through the use of email and text messaging which could render “hello” and “goodbye” obsolete within a generation, according to a report published today.

Shares of search engine companies surged after Yahoo announced it is to buy Overture Services for $1.63bn (€1.44bn) in stock and cash.

THE next Harry Potter book is set to shatter sales records worldwide, even outstripping demand for the Bible, when it is released next month.

California company Overture, which operates major commercial search engines, is to set up a European centre in Dublin where around 200 people will be employed.

To cut down on junk e-mail, Microsoft is capping the number of e-mails that users of its free Hotmail service can send each day.

Robbie Williams will answer fans questions in a live webchat later this month.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has officially opened Microsoft's new office building, the Atrium, in Sandyford, Co. Dublin.

Egg says it's on track to break even during the fourth quarter of this financial year.

The MSN(R) Internet service today announced that the latest data from Jupiter Media Metrix shows that MSN is the top service provider for search with more than 32 million unique users in the US.