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How is TV made safe for people with epilepsy?

Launch footage for the London 2012 logo sparked seizures, but how is television checked for footage that could harm people with epilepsy?

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City wi-fi plans under scrutiny

More and more cities are cutting their wires and going wireless.

But as councils offer public wi-fi, questions are being asked about how much citizens will use them and how sustainable they are.

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Intel steps up cheap laptop race

Intel has teamed up with the world's largest maker of computer motherboards to produce laptops for the developing world.

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Talking paper made by scientists

Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists.

Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.

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Call to open up public data use

Government must do more to embrace Web 2.0 tools and communities, says a report.

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Censorship changes face of net

Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

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Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming'

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the production, operation and disposal of computers is to be the aim of a new government taskforce.

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Europe online '24 hours a month'

More than 122m Europeans aged 15 and above use the internet each day at home, school or in work, says a report.

The average European accesses the net 16.5 days in a month, and spends 24 hours viewing 2,662 web pages

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Getting the most from open source

This week we take a look at the open source operating system Linux and make a few software recommendations.

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Argos: keeping track of the planet

For the past two months a Danish-Greenlandic team has been tracking walruses as they migrate from Greenland.

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E-petitions should prompt votes

Online petitions could be used to decide the subject of debates and votes in Parliament under a Tory government.

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Bear robot rescues wounded troops

The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield.

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Complacency rife in IT projects

Many European IT workers are not being held responsible for delivering projects late, a new study suggests.

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Computer test was deemed risky

A computer exam intended to be taken by all England's 14-year-olds would have involved "a substantial risk", an evaluation by the exams watchdog said.

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Ask re-writes web search rules

Ask has revamped its search engine to help distinguish itself from rivals such as Google and Microsoft.

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Training hit by online problems

Some 150 charities say they were unable to apply for government money for training schemes because of problems with a new online application system.

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Parents seek school webcam links

Some parents would like a webcam link to their child's classroom to follow their progress, a study suggests.

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Wireless energy promise powers up

A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality.

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Time for multilingual net domains

Internet law professor Michael Geist argues that delays to multilingual domain names are holding back internet diversity.

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Good privacy pays for web stores

People will pay more for goods if a website does a good job of protecting their privacy, a study shows.

The Carnegie Mellon study looked at what shoppers do when they are told what sites do with personal data.

It suggests that shoppers will pay a premium equal to about $0.60 (30p) on goods worth $15 (£7) if they are reassured about privacy.

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