Twitter is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages.

Chief executives across the Anglo-Saxon corporate world have been gorging themselves in recent years, but has the time come to start snatching away some of the plates?

Jessica Toonkel reveals how TV networks in America are now measuring viewers’ biometrics and brain waves in the war to preserve their advertising market share and win viewers back from the online world.

Hopes are building that MTV could “crash Cork” with one of its most exclusive live music shows.

Daft Punk are rumoured for a surprise performance at the MTV Video Music Awards later this month.

Netflix is to air original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a deal described as a major coup for both companies.

TIM COOK could end up being the highest paid chief executive in the US in 2011 after Apple granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.

Google boss Dr Eric Schmidt is expected to offer an olive branch to the television industry in a keynote speech tonight.

Owen Wilson has confirmed there is a "really good script" for 'Zoolander 2'.

The Times Square bomber was arrested at the last minute as his flight out of America taxied to the runway, police revealed today.

The Times Square bomb suspect was due to appear in court today as a massive investigation continued across the US.

Action should be taken on this because, unless someone is watching child pornography or snuff videos..., it’s nobody’s business what any of us watch on our computers, least of all a massive entertainment multinational which can make commercial gains from the information.

A US judge has ordered the popular online video-sharing service YouTube to disclose who watches the website’s video clips and when.

A NEW YORK state judge has thrown out parts of Dan Rather’s $70 million (€44m) lawsuit against CBS but preserved several key elements, including the former news anchor’s breach of contract claim.

Toshiba looks set to lose the battle over next-generation DVDs after reports suggested the Japanese electronics giant is to scrap its HD DVD.

Hundreds of MTV employees are staging walkouts in protest at the lack of benefits for the company's freelance workers.

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has slammed an American magazine for claiming he's on the verge of leaving DreamWorks Studios.

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.

Online video leader YouTube rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate film and television studios fed up with persistent piracy problems.

AT 5ft 11in Rachel O’Reilly spent a lot of time towering over acquaintances, both male and female.

BOTH prosecution and defence legal teams accepted that the case against Joe O’Reilly was based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

THE alibi of murder accused Joe O’Reilly told the jury in the Central Criminal Court yesterday that he could be wrong about seeing O’Reilly in the bus depot before 11.00am on the morning of the murder.

A CAR matching the description of murder accused Joe O’Reilly’s Fiat Marea was captured by CCTV footage near the O’Reilly home on the morning of the murder of his wife Rachel, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard yesterday.

CCTV footage shows a car matching the description of Joe O'Reilly's Fiat Marea near the O'Reilly home on the morning of the murder, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

THE jury in the Rachel O’Reilly murder trial was warned yesterday to ignore media coverage of the high- profile case.

The judge in the murder trial of Joe O'Reilly today told the jury to ignore media reports of the case, as they are to reach their verdict only on the evidence they hear in court.

The woman with whom murder accused Joe O'Reilly was having an affair told the jury in the Central Criminal Court today that they were planning a 'permanent future' together.

Emails read out in court have revealed murder accused Joe O'Reilly's was "repulsed" by his dead wife and wanted to separate from her, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

THE colleague Joe O’Reilly told gardaí was his main alibi for the morning his wife was murdered was miles away from him during a one-hour period critical to the investigation, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Phone analysis places the mobile of Joe O'Reilly's co-worker in the vicinity of the Broadstone bus garage on the morning of the murder and is consistent with the account he gave gardaí.

Joe O’ Reilly told gardaí that he had an affair but that it was over by the time his wife Rachel was found murdered at the family home in north Dublin, a jury heard today.

The Premier League has sued YouTube, saying the video-sharing website was engaging in massive copyright infringement by showing footage of games.

Former US President Bill Clinton heaped praise on pal Barbara Streisand at a star-studded charity event in Hollywood on Monday night, thanking the diva for taking care of his dying mum.

US video-sharing website You Tube is to honour the best-user created videos of 2006.

MTV owner Viacom today said it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google in a US federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than €731.9m in damages.

Footballer David Beckham was forced to pull out of the celebrity wedding of the year tonight as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes finally married.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes staged the celebrity wedding of the year tonight as the Hollywood pair tied the knot at a star-studded ceremony.

Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner have been put in charge of United Artists, a film studio formed by Hollywood actors including Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

TOM Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

Tom Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

The war of words over Tom Cruise's split from Paramount Pictures continues, with his lawyer accusing the company chairman of making "disgusting" and "vicious" comments.

Tom Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner is furious with the treatment the pair have received from Paramount Pictures and insists they were the ones who turned their back on the studio after failing to reach an agreement regarding their contract.