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Copyright law scuppers fan film

A copyright row means that one of the most ambitious fan films ever made may never be shown before an audience.

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Google pushes into mobile phones

Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move.

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Google's Android

Google has launched an open operating system for mobile phones, called Android. It has also formed an Open Handset Alliance with 33 partners, promising "better, cheaper" mobile phones.

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Symbian dismisses Google Android

Google's dominance of the web will not translate to the mobile phone market, a senior executive at Symbian has said.

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How smart does your phone need to be?

Mobile phones come with ever more features; whether we use them is crucial to a billion-dollar industry.

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Graphics chips rev up research results

Every serious PC gamer knows what a difference a good graphics card can make to the fun they have. But it is not just hardcore gamers who have recognised the worth of a PC graphics card.

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Traffic light rating for patients

People's health will be rated as red, amber or green under a traffic light system to appear on an NHS website.

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$100 laptop begins production

Mass production of the so-called $100 laptop has begun, five years after the concept was first proposed.

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Prince sites face legal threats

Prince has threatened to take legal action against fan-run websites unless they remove photographs of him.

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Parents' right to film children

With the festive season almost upon us parents have been given the green light to photograph or film their children in school nativity plays by a government body

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Hi-tech ways to stay in touch

The technologies families can use to stay in touch are as diverse as those family groups themselves. The BBC News website gives a run-down on some of the technologies that the most modern of families are putting to good use.

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Website to protect forgotten cash

A new website will let consumers reclaim money that has been sitting in dormant or abandoned bank accounts, before it is seized by the government.

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Apple iPhone fever begins to grow

Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the UK and Germany on Friday with thousands expected to snap up the device.

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A journey to the net's silver side

The BBC's technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, goes undercover to find out what life is like for silver surfers in the newly launched SagaZone.

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Kenyans await fibre-optic future

Kenya has all the right ingredients for outsourcing work, except one: communication speeds.

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Britons sending 1bn texts weekly

Britons are now sending more than one billion text messages per week according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).

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Robot cars race around California

A driverless car called Boss successfully drove around an urban environment, avoiding other cars, and covering 60 miles (85km) in less than six hours, all without any human control.

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Village crashes blamed on sat nav

Villagers in Carmarthenshire say they fear restoration work is being damaged by drivers using satellite navigation.

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