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EC threat to BBC over downloads

The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission.

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Mobile phones 'offensive weapons'

A teaching union is calling for mobile phones to be classed as potentially offensive weapons.

NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said the way pupils misused them to bully their teachers meant they should be banned from school premises.

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Two-tiered net could be coming

Net providers (ISPs) may start charging some websites for faster access to customers, a report has predicted

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Private-eye hackers are convicted

Two police officers who moonlighted as private detectives have been convicted of bugging phones and hacking into computers on behalf of wealthy clients.

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Whiteboard projector safety fears

Interactive whiteboards have been heralded as devices that will enhance education and be a major plank in the government's drive for new technology in schools.

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Beating congestion with mobiles

Working out how people use a city's roads and planning for it, can be difficult, but research into mobile phone use may hold the key to preventing traffic jams in the future.

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Piracy police raid Honeywell site

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is investigating allegations of an extensive illegal music filesharing ring at a Honeywell plant in Scotland.

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Net growth prompts privacy update

The world's leading industrialised nations have been forced to update privacy laws made obsolete by the huge volume of data moving around the net.

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Apple's iPhone makes it to stores

Apple's much-hyped iPhone has finally gone on sale in the US.

Some people had been queuing for days outside Apple and AT&T stores across the US to ensure they got hold of one of the devices

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Rise of the e-sports superstars

In some nations gamers are looked down upon, but in South Korea professional gaming, or e-sports, is worth billions of dollars and players are seen as heroes.

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Cyber-bullying gathers pace in US

One third of US online teenagers have been victims of cyber-bullying according to research by the Pew Internet Project.

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Has touch technology come of age?

Technology is going touchy-feely as products appear which threaten to replace the humble mouse with finger-touch computing.

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Supercomputer steps up the pace

The world's fastest commercial supercomputer has been launched by computer giant IBM.

Blue Gene/P is three times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.

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Social sites reveal class divide

Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study.

A long-term research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.

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Q&A: WEEE Directive

The much-delayed Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive that makes producers and importers of electronic goods responsible for recycling their products finally came into full force in the UK on 1 July.

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Leader of net piracy gang jailed

A Briton has been jailed for 51 months after pleading guilty to software piracy charges in the US.

From his Australia home Hew Griffiths led the DrinkOrDie piracy group which specialised in cracking protection codes on software, music and movies.

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The man who invented the cash machine

The world's first ATM was installed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, 40 years ago this week.

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