The number of people in China who use internet has surged so much in the past year that currently China has the world's largest number of internet users. It totals the entire U.S. population.

The BBVA Foundation presents the results of its “Second Study on the Internet in Spain” based on a wide-ranging survey into how Internet is being used, its impact on different areas of life and what users see as its main strengths and critical areas.

New research revealed that, like excessive gaming or virtual sex, e-mail and text messaging might be part of a compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder and a form of addiction.

A new program that is going to be launched for the world-known online community MySpace will give its users an opportunity to use e-mail, games and many other features directly on the website.

A decision to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos is beneficial to the public, a Chinese official said on Sunday.

China's authorities shut down 44,000 domestic websites and homepages and arrested 868 people while investigating 524 criminal cases in a campaign against Internet pornography last year, a national teleconference has heard.

With public concern over online fraud, new research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has revealed that internet users will reveal more personal information online if they believe they can trust the organisation that requests the information.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a free and easy-to-use online service for recording step-by-step processes that Web users do on a regular basis, then automatically runs those processes, eliminating repetitive or mundane tasks for the user.

An eye tracking experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication revealed that college student internet users have an inherent trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query.

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McAfee, Inc. today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee SiteAdvisor, the world's first safe search and surf technology, has been downloaded more than 50 million times by Internet users