'The new feature could be huge: it brings existing Facebook connections into the Twitterverse, which is likely to spur new levels of engagement and growth. We’ve already seen a fail whale or two in our testing of the new Facebook app though, making us worry that the new feature could potentially cause more downtime.'

'The Google Maps and Street View could get a minor upgrade to their user interface. Currently, the navigational controls on these mapping applications appear separate from the actual image area. According to a patent application filed by Google with the US Patents & Trademark Office, the new UI could bring these controls on top of the location being viewed.'

'Howie Choset, a roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, thinks that the physics and the biology-inspired approaches to robot movement will one day meet and "at the intersection will be a deeper understanding of how biology works and how to make robots better".'

'Listening to marketing messages from companies such as Apple and Google, one might think HTML5, the next-generation Web page standard, is ready to take the Net by storm.'

But the words of those producing the specification show an HTML governance process that can be stormy, fractious, and far from settled down.

'Once you start up the Autoruns program, it displays a list of all the programs on the computer that are set to automatically run when the system starts up or you log into Windows.'