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Drive advance fuels terabyte era

A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi.

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BBC must offer iPlayer for all

The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.

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New web rules for council staff

New rules for internet access have been introduced by a council where three workers lost their jobs for spending too long on the auction site eBay.

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Hi-tech 3D centre to open at uni

A hi-tech centre aimed at offering affordable 3D virtual reality for business projects is officially opened at Aberystwyth university later.

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BBC online to go free over wi-fi

The BBC's online services will be made available free of charge at thousands of wi-fi hotspots around the UK.

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Hot picks: Machinima

Machinima is a medium that has come of age.

As an "emergent art", it has been around as a form of user-generated content for some ten years now: hardly emergent then.

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Cameras to catch 20mph speeders

Drivers breaking 20mph limits could be caught by new speed cameras if the government accepts advisors' proposals.

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Town prepares for digital switch

The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria is gearing up to spearhead the digital era as it becomes the first place in the UK to lose the analogue TV signal.

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Hand-held supercomputers on the way

Experts at a Scottish university say they have paved the way for the creation of tiny supercomputers which could fit in the palm of the hand.

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Turn off e-mail and do some work

With inboxes bulging with messages and many workers dreading the daily deluge of e-mail, some companies are taking drastic action. Intel has become the latest in an increasingly long line of companies to launch a so-called 'no e-mail day'.

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Wi-fi security system is broken

More holes have been picked in the security measure designed to protect the privacy and data of wi-fi users. The latest attack lets criminals defeat firewalls and spy on where someone goes and what they do online.

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Report highlights blog censorship

Bloggers are now finding themselves prey to censorship from repressive governments as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says.

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YouTube rolls out filtering tools

Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on the sharing of video without permission. The tools, called Video Identification, will block copyright material from appearing and spreading on the site.

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Security service targets gamers

A British intelligence agency has targeted a new generation of recruits by advertising in computer games.

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MySpace starts Skype call service

Social network website MySpace has joined forces with internet phone firm Skype to allow MySpace users to make calls to each other.

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MySpace opens door to developers

Social network MySpace is to allow third-party developers to build applications for the site.

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Apple to open up iPhone software

Apple boss Steve Jobs has said that outside developers will now be allowed to make add-on software for the iPhone. The move follows criticism that Apple was previously not allowing outsiders to make programs that would run easily on the popular mobile phone.

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Worlds smallest radio unveiled

The world's tiniest radio is a step closer to reality. US scientists have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound.

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Firms seek online copyright pact

Media and internet firms, including Viacom, Walt Disney, Microsoft and Myspace are setting guidelines to protect copyright material online.

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Mobile phone use backed on planes

Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes flying through European airspace.

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Apple sets Leopard release date

Leopard, the update to Apple's operating system for its computers, will be released on 26 October.

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Daily reality of net censorship

How far will repressive regimes go to control what their citizens do online, asks Bill Thompson.

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Web dissent on the rise in China

Zeng Jinyan does not look like a dissident. She is small, heavily pregnant and has a liki The 24-year-old uses the internet to pass on information to the outside world about protests, injustices and underground campaigns in China.

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Line up for spectrum gold rush

As the residents of Whitehaven in Cumbria become the first guinea-pigs of the digital switchover in the UK, so attention moves to what will happen with all the freed-up airwaves.

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EA wants open gaming platform

Rival gaming systems should make way for a single open platform, a senior executive at Electronic Arts has said. Gerhard Florin said incompatible consoles made life harder for developers and consumers. "We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible," said EA's head of international publishing.

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Argentines 'auction' votes online

A number of voters in Argentina are seeking to auction off their votes on the internet ahead of the presidential election later this month.

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Resurection for art lost in WWII

A 17th Century painting lost during the Blitz in Swansea is once again hanging at St Mary's Church thanks to some detective work and digital magic.

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