A nine-year-old girl’s blog showing photos of her school dinners – NeverSeconds – has become an unexpected internet hit.

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Girl’s school lunch blog is hit

The Internet is full of awful people saying awful things to each other. At least, that’s the impression you’d get from reading most comment sections of most Web sites. From site to site and topic to topic, comments are consistently a black eye. Despite years of attempts to massage, curate, coax and moderate, the unbridled “discussion,” the Internet still seems mired in the kind of discourse best reserved for a bar brawl. Or that bar’s bathroom wall. Read full article > >

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ISO civility in online comments

The owner of O2 and Movistar launches an app capable of making calls over the internet like rivals such as Skype.

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Telefonica unveils Skype rival

HTML5 takes the internet by storm

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HTML5 takes the internet by storm

The government will consult on new measures to protect children from internet pornography, including a parental opt-in policy for receiving adult content.

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Consultation on web porn measures

MPs have warned it’s too easy for children to watch online pornography. But could the internet be regulated to protect children? And should it?

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Could teenagers be stopped from looking at porn?

San Diego’s water agency has taken a fight over rates to the public, using the Internet to raise accusations against a consortium that provides water to 19 million people.

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San Diego Takes Water Fight Public

Hunter Moore: The ‘most hated man on the internet’

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‘Most hated man on the internet’

BBC Radio 5 live’s Tony Livesey spoke to the 14-year-old whose voice has become an internet sensation.

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AUDIO: Teen ‘with the voice of Optimus Prime’

World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says plans to increase internet monitoring should be blocked, without a strong watchdog and rules on storing data.

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Berners-Lee: Drop ‘snooping’ plan

Last July, a well-funded nonprofit group called Americans Elect announced it had found a new and more honorable path to the White House. It would bypass the primaries, the founders said, via the Internet. Read full article > >

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Americans Elect searches for a way to ignite third-party fever

Internet giant Google reports a large jump in profits and sales as well as announcing a two-for-one split of its shares.

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Google splits stock as sales jump

Facebook said it would make its largest acquisition yet, buying Instagram, a social network built around photography and an out-of-nowhere Internet hit.

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Bits Blog: Mobile Clout Gets Instagram $1 Billion From Facebook

Facebook said it would make its largest acquisition yet, buying Instagram, a social network built around photography and an out-of-nowhere Internet hit.

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Bits Blog: Mobile Clout Gets Instagram $1 Billion From Facebook

AOL announced Monday that it is selling more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion, marking the latest salvo in the tech industry’s all-out war over who controls the most lucrative ideas powering the Internet and smartphones. Read full article > >

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Microsoft fires latest salvo in patent war with $1 billion purchase from AOL