With UK album sales on the decline, musicians are constantly striving to find the next best way of marketing their music. Enter the big named brands to help out.

After ten years of search engine supremacy, Google has entered the realm of web browsing with the release of Google Chrome. Take a brief look back in time and see how they became potentially one of the biggest companies in the world.

As Holland join the ever growing list of countries enforcing a smoking ban in public places, I have decided to take a look into the filthy habit that kills approximately four million people a year.

Fashion can be considered a form of communal art, designers and the general public work together to create an ever-changing urban uniform. Of course fashion can refer to almost anything, architecture, dance and even food all change according to the mercurial tastes of the masses. Arguably the most interesting aspect of fashion and the one which reflects culture most thoroughly is clothing.

Online gaming has, perhaps unfairly, gathered a great deal of negative press recently. Described as addictive, antisocial and blamed for the deaths of several young people around the world.

With the tightening credit crunch, plummeting house prices and an economic recession hanging in the air, the financial forecast looks gloomy at best. However, contrary to popular belief, a new survey suggests that the entertainment sector may be about to buck the greying trend.

As the new film The Edge of Love is put on general release, we take a look at the current surge in the poet Dylan Thomas's popularity

The Edinburgh Fringe has become a staple part of one of the most iconic and popular arts festivals in the world. But with many criticising the modern shape and content of the event, has the Fringe cut itself off from tradition and lost its distinctive look?

Glastonbury festival has been in the news even more than usual this year, tickets are still available prompting organisers to sell the remainder in HMV stores in a last ditch attempt to shift the leftovers. This lull in demand has left Glastonbury organisers pondering just what is putting festivalgoers off an event that has become synonymous with summer in England.

Some cite the unquestionable rise of celebrity culture as a mark of decline in our society. Magazines like Hello and OK! chart every sordid detail of celebrity lives, following the rise of new stars and gleefully revelling in the downfall of the old ones.

When Sir Jonathan Miller's critically acclaimed version of Hamlet wasn't picked up by any West End producers, he became the latest in a long line of high profile detractors from the recent penchant for star-studded casts. Is he right to hit back at an industry bloated by its own self importance? Or is this possibly the archetypal classic case of sour grapes?

After months of online speculation the new Apple iPhone was finally showcased at this year's WWDC in San Francisco. The announcement will come as a welcome relief to those who were disappointed by the original iPhone's surprising lack of 3G capability as well as its lamentable business usability.

The Times recently submitted an article entitled, "The Horrifying cost of Britain's top attractions" which slammed the high prices we pay in order to treat the family. In an ever-increasingly expensive world, we are all looking for cheaper ways to entertain our loved ones and the best way to avoid hidden charges.

From a distance you could be forgiven for mistaking some of Margate's most distinctive visitors for lonely brides standing sentinel on the seafront, their large white dresses and slightly achronistic bonnets creating a stark contrast with the grey, crumbling prom of the almost forgotten Kent seaside town.

July fourth has always been renowned for its huge fireworks displays and overexcited Americans celebrating their independent status from their British Counterparts. From 2008, the British music industry is planning on celebrating the day for an altogether different reason: Independent music.

Since the BBC announced that over 7.2 million users have logged on to its iplayer service in only its first two months and the relentless rise of 'less than legal' content streamers sky-rockets, we may ask ourselves: does the dawn of the digital age mean the death sentence for live theatre?

Recent reports suggest that heavy cannabis consumption can lead to certain areas of the brain shrinking. Reopening the debate of the dangers of smoking cannabis and the effects on the human body.

Dance music is presumed by many to be dead. Not so quick. Dance music actually morphed and led to the revolution that created the best sounds of this century.

Since the double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorious was cleared to run in the Beijing Olympics last month his case has attracted a huge amount of debate. With his dependence on the controversial 'Cheetah' carbon blades to allow him to compete, is it fair that he race against able-bodied athletes?

In the last five years the stream of phone-in talent shows on television has tripled into a raging torrent. Are these programmes a new way of giving the viewer what they want, or just a new way of repackaging what they've got?

Barely a day goes by without either Andrew Lloyd Webber or Cameron Mackintosh announcing further proof that their recent string of television shows have bumped up theatre audience figures all over the country. In the wake of inflation and the credit crunch however, we may have to ask: just how long will our love affair with the West End last?