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Teachers' details on missing disk

A computer disk containing the names and addresses of more than 11,000 teachers has gone missing in the post. The General Teaching Council (GTC)'s letter to teachers said it went missing after being sent from Rotherham via Parcelforce to its Birmingham office.

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EC call for 'universal' broadband

Brussels is considering making broadband access available for all. The fast growth of broadband has led the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms services Europeans can expect.

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Ofcom sets out stall for fast net

The price of super fast broadband should reflect the amount of money spent on investing in next generation networks, UK regulator Ofcom has said.

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Mayor sees London as 'wi-fi city'

Mayor Boris Johnson has said he wanted London to become "a wi-fi city", where the internet was available anywhere.

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Police close file on BT's trials

The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system.

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Public 'must assert' data rights

People need to take control of how much information about them is being stored by organisations, says the UK's data protection watchdog.

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Games less virtual, more reality

While most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are based on fantasy worlds, there is a growing trend for a new kind of game that merges the real world with the virtual.

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Used mobile devices reveal data

A fifth of second hand mobile devices still contain sensitive company and personal information, research shows.

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New step in mobile phone banking

New technology allowing customers of UK banks to manage their accounts through their mobile phone is being introduced.

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EU to slash more mobile charges

Proposals by a European Commissioner to slash the cost of using mobile phones abroad, for text, data and voice calls could become law next July.

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Computers link up to find new prime number

Mathematicians in California could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits. The prize was set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to promote co-operative computing on the Internet.

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Silect calls fine for Barclaycard

Barclaycard has received the maximum possible fine for the "most serious and persistent" case of silent calls ever seen by regulator Ofcom.

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Supermarket tills to speak Welsh

Shoppers at branches of a supermarket chain will now be able to use self-service checkouts in Welsh following demand from customers. Tesco said a programme that was started in the summer to convert the automatic tills was now complete.

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French to fight police database

David Reid reports on a storm brewing in France over plans to build a database to hold details of people considered likely to breach public order. Civil liberties groups fear that the new police database, called Edvige, would significantly erode rights to privacy.

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Users fail to spot fake pop-ups

Internet users are unable to distinguish between genuine pop-up warnings messages and false ones, a study at North Carolina State University has found.

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Germany arrest over gamer death

A man arrested by police in Germany on suspicion of the murder of an internet gaming enthusiast in Nottingham is facing extradition proceedings.

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Computer game boosts maths scores

A daily dose of computer games can boost maths attainment, according to a study carried out in Scottish schools.

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MySpace launches net music store

MySpace has unveiled an online music store that lets its US members listen for free but pay for downloads.

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Google's Android mobile unveiled

The first mobile telephone using Google's Android software has been unveiled.

The T-Mobile G1 handset will be available in the UK in time for Christmas.

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