A new programming language known as "VoicePHP" has been announced by an Indian startup with the aim to bring simplicity and universality to Web-enabled voice applications.

If adhered to TringMe, founded by Lucent and Texas Instruments (TXN), Yusuf Motiwala in Bangalore, India in 2007, the concept is not new and it's just a voice-enabled version of the familiar Web programming language PHP (which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Processor").

Recently, the harmonious functioning of Twitter was disrupted, when the micro-blogging website, that lets the users to broadcast short messages to groups of followers laned as a target of a wave of hacking and phishing attacks.

On Monday, it was confirmed by the San Francisco Company that a total number of accounts hijacked were 33, including those of President-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears, and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez.

London, Jan 5: A Christmas appeal by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has helped the website avoid the compulsion to carry ads and introduce access charges, as concerned readers have successfully raised a whopping 6 million dollars to cover its running costs for 2009.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopaedia, made a personal appeal after donations fell short to raise 6 million dollars, even after launching a campaign seeking donations on November 3 last year.

London, Dec 27: Internet sites could be given ''cinema-style age ratings'' under the government's plan to curb offensive and harmful online activity, according to Britain's Cultural Secretary.

Andy Burnham plans to discuss the proposal with Barack Obama's incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

He describes the Internet as "quite a dangerous place" and says he wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents "child-safe" web services.

London, Dec 26 : The European Union''s digital library, Europeana, which crashed on its opening day, is back in operation.

European Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr said the website was working after its server capacity had been quadrupled and it had been stress-tested to deal with user interest.

However, a message on the site www. europeana. eu reads, "the user experience may not be optimal in this test phase" and as a result "the number of users will be limited in peak times."

The site was launched on November 21 to great fanfare but was swamped by an unexpected 10 million user hits per hour, swiftly bringing the system to a crashing halt, reports the BBC.

A woman has been detained by the Shanghai police since she first filmed herself having sex and then posted her video on the Internet which created a sensation among Chinese Internet users.

Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) statement read, "Huang was detained by police on suspicion of disseminating pornographic materials." The statement identified the accused woman by her surname only.

In China, pornography is illegal; however, it remains quite accessible on the Internet.