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With media restrictions lifted, it has come light that Lord Alan Sugar was ordered to remove a Tweet from his Twitter page in January this year, leading to speculation about possible future Twitter censorship laws.

Having just bought TweetDeck, Twitter has confirmed its intent to add yet more third-party applications to its collection.

The free internet call service Skype has once again crashed, not allowing certain users to make calls or even log into their accounts.

Speaking at the e-G8 Internet forum in Paris, Twitter's head of operations in Europe Tony Wang, indicated that the company would be willing to hand over user information should it be "legally required" to do so.

The Icelandic volcano which has caused disruption to northern European airspace has stopped emitting ash, weather and aviation officials said.

Internet retailer Amazon suffered major technical hitches as Lady Gaga fans besieged the site eager to take advantage of its one-day offer on the artist's new album.

In a statement today, Microsoft revealed the next version of its Windows Phone operating system.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has today attacked the social networking site Twitter, questioning its policy to allow extreme views to be freely expressed regardless of their legal status in super injunctions or possible nature as hate speech.

UK privacy laws lay in tatters this morning after an MP used parliamentary privilege to name Ryan Giggs as the player at the centre of an on going injunction row.

The married footballer at the centre of the Twitter injunction row has been named in Parliament.

As arguments continue to rage about whether super-injunctions should be allowed to protect any form of reporting about certain issues, the High Court has once again refused to allow journalists to name the married footballer alleged to have had a sexual relationship with reality TV star Imogen Thomas, despite controversial moves from Twitter and The Sunday Herald, which concluded in a large part the public guessing game surrounding the identity of the sportsman.

The Sunday Herald and the Sun have by their actions shown (if it were not already apparent) the madness of super injunctions taken out by the rich and powerful.

David Cameron told ITV1's Daybreak the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today" before adding that "It is rather unsustainable, this situation, where newspapers can't print something that clearly everybody else is talking about.”

Calls to name the footballer who had an alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas saw a spike in search traffic on Twitter and crashed the Scotland Herald's website last night. As of midday the Scottish newspaper's website is still down.

The law surrounding privacy injunctions intensified on Sunday when The Sunday Herald printed a front-page photograph of the footballer alleged to have had an affair with the model Imogen Thomas.

One of Britain's top judges has called for a distinction between Twitter users, bloggers and national newspapers.

After standing down from his role as The Guardian's Head of Technology last week, Mike Bracken has just been appointed as the government's acting executive director of Digital.

The media should be informed before gagging orders are brought against them, a report by top judges says.

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ruled out introducing a new privacy law to deal with issues around superinjunctions and gagging orders, following a meeting with the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, on Thursday - The Guardian reports.

Another Premier League football player has taken out an injunction to keep details of an affair from being reported.

Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, has indicated that a new privacy law could be introduced in the light of the Imogen Thomas injunction.

The former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas subject to a gagging order by a Premiership footballer has been accused of blackmailing the well known star.

Jumping on the growing budget smartphone bandwagon, Vodafone has officially confirmed its plans to release its first ever own-brand smartphone.

In its latest bid to boost sales of its 3D TVs, tech giant Samsung has officially announced a new TV app that allows Smart TV owners to stream 3D videos through their television.

Both Jeremy Clarkson and Jemima Khan were forced to deny weekend rumours that they have individually taken out gagging orders preventing intimate photos of the pair from being published.

LG has announced it plans to sell one million Windows Phone 7 devices as it announces targets for the handheld devices.

Amazon has relaunched its Kindle in the US and UK. Read the latest here and see pictures plus full statement from Amazon.

Microsoft has announced that it will hand-out free WP7 Phone's on its release later this year as it drives forward its plans for a smartphone market share.

The Miliband brothers, David and Ed, have both received boosts to their campaigns to become the next Labour leader, setting the stage for what looks likely to come down to a final fraternal battle between the two.

Dell is about to enter the smartphone/tablet PC market with the 5 inch 'Streak', an iPhone competitor that allows users to make phone calls, surf the internet and listen to music.