Web giant takes on Microsoft with Google Apps Marketplace offering cloud-based applications Google has announced that it has opened the Google Apps Marketplace to developers. More than 50 companies wil be involved in the Apps Marketplace, which will offer business software such as a project...

Why is a government body setting up a website that has almost the exact same name and function as a private sector one that's been around since last year? At some stage, the government has to get over its habit of trying to not just reinvent the wheel, but to build cars and sell them. Once upon a...

Pink Floyd, Vodafone malware, Windows's origins, WiMAX, Apple's iTunesLP, ad blockers, iPhone App licensing, I Can Afford Cheezburger?, CEOP lack of buttons and more... A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Pink Floyd Suing EMI Label Over Online Royalties -...

Google's adding 210,000 miles of UK roads to its current Street View coverage, enabling users to view almost all of this sceptred isle's leafy thoroughfares. And BlackpoolSource : CNET.co.uk (subscribe)

Charging might work with specialist content, says Google's chief economist – but engaging readers with online content during their leisure hours is a more promising strategy The key to most newspapers' survival online is engaging more with readers, rather than seeking to charge them directly,...

The rocky road to cinemas for Tim Burton's 3D adventure shows cinemas will suffer as their grip slackens on the right to show films first After its lacklustre reviews , few would have expected Alice in Wonderland to break box-office records . Yet in spite of the bounty it's appeared to bestow,...

A 'catastrophic event' 10 billion years ago halted the birth of new stars in an infant galaxy, scientists revealed today. This may explain why early giant galaxies such as our own Milky Way didn't just keep on expanding after they had formed.Source : Daily Mail (subscribe)Explore : Science

Investors are pumping more and more money into web services that are heavily reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world's most popular social network? An email came through to me last night that, in many respects, is the stock-and-trade of the startup world: a team of...

Charles Arthur, Rick Wray and Aleks Krotoski take on the BBC in this week's podcast, picking apart the latest news on the corporation - from the director general's strategy review to the battles with iPhone app developers. What's behind the BBC's contradictory new media messaging? Is digital...

As noted, the big theme of the first couple of days here at GDC is social gaming. Here's a few stats: FarmVille, the most popular social game on Facebook, has more than 31 million people playing it every single day....Source : Mousetrap Technology - Times Online (subscribe)

President and CEO of Viacom Philippe Dauman has announced that Rock Band 3 will be making its release this holiday season, and Kotaku reports him saying the title will “innovate and revolutionize the music genre”. We all know how Rock Band help to solidify the music genre in gaming. However,...

Reports today from Macnn, among many other Apple centric sources, report the iPad will not ship with many of the stock apps that were shipped with most iterations of the iPhone and iPod Touch OS. The apps and utilities omitted by Apple for, at least, the first generation of the iPad include...

Since the announcement that Capcom would be brining their highly successful Street Fighter IV title to the iPhone, there has been much speculation over just how well this type of 2D style fighting game, that relies heavily on precise inputs of button combos, will port to a device such as the...

As the GDC gets underway, news from Electronic Arts that should hearten a certain golfer. It looks like EA Sports is not backing away from its links with Tiger Woods despite his notoriety. While many other sponsors and advertisers have...Source : Mousetrap Technology - Times Online (subscribe)

Owners of Microsoft’s Entourage and Office 2008 for Mac will be happy to learn that Microsoft has today released an update. The update to office, making it version v12.2.4 will include several improvements to performance and overall stability. Macnn also reported the update, “also included a...

Press reports today from EA announce a new, huge RPG deal with Curt Schilling’s development studio, 38 Studios that will see Spawn creator Todd McFarlane art directing and author R.A. Salvator penning the story. The title is currently code-named “Project Mercury”, GameSpot reports, and will...

So, here we are in San Francisco for the annual Game Developers Conference, an event for industry professionals that lacks the glitz of its giant siblings E3 and CES. There are no wild Samsung parties here, no half-naked porn stars,...Source : Mousetrap Technology - Times Online...

While we have all long anticipated the first commercial for the upcoming launch of Apple’s iPad, we finally got our first glimpse during the broadcast of the Academy Awards. It was a typical Apple ad not unlike iPhone commercials but didn’t reveal anything you probably didn’t already know....

Our tastes in partner are altered by how we are feeling, research suggests.Source : Daily Mail (subscribe)Explore : Science

Some more good news today from Gamespy coming as part of Valve’s announcement to bring distribution platform Steam to Apple’s OS X with reports from the Left 4 Dead blog regarding cross-platform compatibility for the Mac and PC versions of the game. This means that Mac and PC players of both...