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Google to launch operating system

Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system.

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Hardware makers support Google OS

Google has announced which hardware firms have pledged to build machines that will run its Chrome OS.

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Digital champion targets the poor

The poorest six million Britons who are not online will be the main focus for the UK's digital champion.

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China clampdown on tech in Urumqi

The Chinese government has made good use of its control over the nation's technological infrastructure to stop the spread of information about events in Urumqi.

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News of the World 'bugging' claim

The publisher of the News of the World paid £1m in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping, it has been claimed.

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Police to probe phone hack claims

The police are to examine claims that a huge mobile phone hacking operation was launched by the News of the World, targeting thousands of people.

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Prescott calls for hacking probe

Former deputy PM John Prescott is calling for inquiries to be reopened into allegations of widespread mobile phone hacking by the News of the World.

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Call for limits on web snooping

Governments and companies should limit the snooping they do on web users. So said Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, who said that growing oversight of browsing could have a pernicious effect.

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Governments hit by cyber attack

A widespread computer attack has hit several US government agencies while some South Korean government websites also appear to be affected.

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New 'cyber attacks' hit S Korea

South Korea is experiencing a third wave of suspected cyber-attacks - co-ordinated attempts to paralyse a number of major websites.

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Mobile broadband notspots mapped

There are still significant notspots when it comes to 3G mobile coverage in the UK, regulator Ofcom has revealed. It has pledged to investigate why some places, particularly in rural areas, are still failing to get any coverage.

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Giant Gundam robot stalks Japan

Nothing better sums up the relationship between the Japanese and robotics than a giant model robot model - 18 metres high and weighing 35 tonnes - that has taken pride of place in the centre of Tokyo.

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Cameras clock cross-border speeds

A speeding crackdown is under way targeting the motorway that links Scotland and England.

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Pictograms make motorway debut

Drivers on the M23 in Surrey and around Gatwick Airport will start to see new signs on the motorway - using pictures as well as words - from next week.

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Internet role on bug-hit cruise

The internet played a major role for passengers seeking and sending information on an outbreak of norovirus on their cruise ship.

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Man held after child kidnap bid

Police in France have arrested a man who allegedly tried to abduct a 12-year-old Scottish girl he met through a social networking website.

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Anytime tourism advice launched

Visitors to Aviemore and the Cairngorms are to be able to access tourist information anytime using three Bluetooth terminals.

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Sheffield in broadband fast lane

Homes in Sheffield are set to benefit from super-fast broadband as H2O Networks begins work on a city-wide fibre network.

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Playing together and staying together

There is no doubt that for many, online games such as World of Warcraft (WoW) are an escape from family and friends. But for others, time-pressed, divided families, those divorced, living away from their loved ones, or simply with grown-up children, these games are increasingly being used to stay in touch.

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Paradise lost

Sat-nav feels like state-of-the-art technology, but it's a century since the first auto-navigation device was invented and, says Joe Moran, there are fears such systems are starting to erode local knowledge.

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Twitter to give bushfire alerts

Australia is to use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to give people early warning of bushfires.

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TalkTalk drops ad tracking firm

UK internet service provider TalkTalk has pulled the plug on its agreement with online behaviour tracking firm Phorm.

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Phorm shares fall as BT opts out

Shares in the online ad firm Phorm have fallen by more than 40% after BT said it had no immediate plans to use the service that tracks online behaviour.

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Pair jailed for web race crimes

Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.

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Jackson memorial gives web boost

Michael Jackson's memorial service is being seen as helping to solidify a new era for the internet.

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Jackson memorial sale crackdown

Efforts by those trying to sell tickets they won to the Michael Jackson memorial service are being thwarted.

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No trial for Twitter panic man

An appeals court in Guatemala City has ruled there is not enough evidence to try a man accused of using micro-blog Twitter to cause a financial panic.

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Royal household turns to Twitter

Buckingham Palace has revealed that the Royal Family has now joined the Twitter micro-blogging revolution.

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Brought to book

The new chief of MI6, Sir John Sawers, has had his personal life made public thanks to his wife's Facebook page. It's another example of how the world's biggest social networking site can be used to reveal a bit too much information.

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Security risk of social networks

The perils of putting personal data on Facebook were made painfully obvious when the wife of John Sawers - the next head of MI6 - put details, photos, and information about him and his family on the social networking site.

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Smart clothes could take photos

Clothes could one day take snaps of everything happening around whoever is wearing them.

US researchers have made smart fabric that can detect the wavelength and direction of light falling on it.

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Historic Bible pages put online

About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet.

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Osprey chicks tagged for tracking

Two of three osprey chicks at a nest site in the Highlands have been tagged so they can be tracked via satellite.

RSPB Scotland staff hope to monitor the young birds' migration to Africa later this year.

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