Mobile phones to send money home

Mobile phone operators and banks are backing a scheme to allow those who work abroad to use their phones to send money home.

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PayPal introduces security token

Online finance service PayPal, which is used by many people on eBay to pay for items, is introducing a security token to tackle fraud.

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Mobile networks powered by wind

Wind and solar energy could be used to set up mobile phone networks in rural areas of the world without power.

The world's first mobile phone base station powered by wind and the sun's rays will soon open in Namibia.

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Confusion over 'data snooping' laws

Balancing the needs of the police to investigate crimes online with the privacy of individual web users has become controversial as governments seek to extend their snooping rights in cyberspace.

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Iraqis use internet to survive war

Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.

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Deaf to sign via video handsets

A US team develops software to help deaf people use video to chat via sign language over mobile networks.

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'Tagging' improves patient safety

In a scheme at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, day case surgery patients carry their personal data on electronic tags embedded into wristbands.

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Coming to your screen: DIY TV

Broadcasting is going through its biggest change since the invention of television.

Nowadays virtually anyone can set up a TV channel and start broadcasting. It's easy and getting cheaper all the time.

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Nationwide fine for stolen laptop

The Nationwide Building Society has been fined £980,000 by the City watchdog over security breaches.

The fine follows the theft of a laptop from a Nationwide employee's home which contained confidential customer data.

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Internet plan for MTV clips

US media company Viacom is to begin letting people take videos from a number of its websites to post on their own blogs and sites.

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British hacker fights extradition

A Scot has launched a High Court fight against extradition to the US for allegedly carrying out the "biggest military computer hack of all time".

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Home network security scrutinised

Home computer users who leave default passwords on network hardware unchanged could be at risk from attack say security experts.

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Mexico drug gangs 'in web taunts'

Police in Mexico are investigating claims that rival drug gangs are using the internet as a new battle ground.

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Digital neighbourhood watch plan

A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking, has been proposed.

Two lecturers in the US have suggested creating a network of Community Response Grids (CRG) in conjunction with the emergency services.

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Teraflops chip points to future

A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel.

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Hiding messages in plain sight

Japanese firm Fujitsu is pushing a technology that can encode data into a picture that is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera.

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