Also this week, the Financial Times' Tim Bradshaw revealed Twitter's plans to include 'promoted tweets' in user streamlines. He wrote that the move is 'likely to be controversial with users who have seen only limited and unobtrusive marketing messages so far in Twitter's five-year history'. ...

The project is anticipated to take several years, but the first items on the slate for digitization are feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), a story about the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775), according to the British Library's ...

SageTV has been developing its software since 2002. The platform allows users to record live television, including full seasons, thanks to support for antenna TV, cable, and satellite. A place-shifting feature lets users start watching a show on one device, such as their PC or Mac, and continue watching it elsewhere, including on mobile devices ...

A Nintendo Co. representative displays a WiiU video-game handheld console for a photograph at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Photographer: Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg ...

That is a huge improvement. Higher quality images help the viewer become more informed. They're more likely to click on something if they can see it clearly or, I should say, they're less likely to click on something that's blurry and difficult to make out. ...

Live streaming provider Ustream is adding another possible revenue stream with the introduction of new Premium Memberships. For $3.99 a month, Ustream viewers will now get unlimited access to any live stream on the site without having to watch pre-roll ads before the video loads. ...

LONDON ; Physicists believe that by the end of 2012 they will be able to determine whether a theorised particle called the Higgs boson, which has unleashed a gruelling decades-long hunt, exists or not, they said on Tuesday. ...

Google has been at the forefront of rich markup for search engines, having multiplied both their support for rich data and the portion of the time that rich results are shown. Their recent collaboration with competitors Bing and Yahoo! for schema.org, a site that standardizes and educates about markup language, further demonstrates the company's enthusiasm. ...

Hardly a month has gone by this year without a multinational company such as Google Inc. (GOOG), EMC Corp. or Sony Corp. (6758) disclosing it's been hacked by cyber intruders who infiltrated networks or stole customer information. Yet no hacker has been publicly identified, charged or arrested. ...

The report drives home how competitive it has been for tech companies to attract new talent, and also is a reminder how tough it is for the small startups to compete with the biggies when it comes to pay. ...