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Court fines eBay over fake goods

A French court has ordered eBay to pay 40m euros (£31.6m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods.

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Firefox download record official

Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period.

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Letters go to music file-sharers

Virgin Media has sent about 800 letters to customers warning them that they should not be downloading illegal music files via file-sharing sites.

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Rhapsody embraces MP3 music files

US digital music service Rhapsody is the latest company to embrace MP3 downloads without copy restrictions.

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Government launches data mash-up

The UK government has launched a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects. It is hoping to find new uses for public information in the areas of criminal justice, health and education.

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Phonetaps 'breached privacy law'

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled Britain breached international conventions by monitoring emails and phone calls between Ireland and the UK.

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Virgin rapped on broadband speeds

A complaint lodged by BT about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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Google faces 'Street View block'

Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken.

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Google Yahoo ad deal faces probe

A formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck between Yahoo and Google over search advertising is set to be launched by the US Justice Department.

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Google must divulge YouTube log

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

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IT failure 'causes £130m arrears'

Rates arrears of £130m have mounted up because an expensive computer system is not up to the job, the Northern Ireland Audit Office has revealed.

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SATs Test results: what went wrong?

"Unfortunately, because of technical problems at the company contracted by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) to collect and sort the 7.5 million marks, schools will receive their official computer printout of results later than planned."

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Spam experiment overloads inboxes

Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee.

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Video games get into shape

Games can have a positive effect on health, whether by helping to improve kids' fitness levels, or by being used as physical rehabilitation tool for the elderly. They are also being used to treat migraine, based on research into neurofeedback treatment techniques.

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The tech watching our wellbeing

The high street is awash with consumer medical devices. One product just about to hit shelves is a portable electrocardiograph (ECG). It listens to your heartbeat and analyses it for irregularities and then tells you if you have any. It also shows you a graph of your heartbeat.

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Innovation transforming NHS care

In an operating theatre at Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridge staff are preparing a pretty scary looking machine. It has metal arms covered in plastic. It looks rather like a giant spider. In fact it is a Da Vinci robot.

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Punk loving robots pogo for science

Despite the chaos and carnage of three nights of live punk at the Institute of Contemporary Arts punters would still be hard pressed to miss the three pogo-dancing robots in their midst.

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Mobile firms hit roaming deadline

Mobile phone firms have reached a deadline to cut the price customers are charged for sending text messages in member countries of the European Union.

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Sinclair dreams of 'flying cars'

Personal flying machines will be a reality, home computer and electric car pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has said.

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