MySpace has won $234m in damages from spammers - but has little chance of getting the cash say experts.

Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP accounts are being traded online, a telecoms firm finds.

Nato backs a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, following attacks on its internet structure.

A survey of software piracy in UK firms has shown that it has fallen for the first time in three years.

A Doctor Who fan is embroiled in a row with the BBC after publishing knitting patterns for the show's monsters online.

Scientists prepare for "seven minutes of terror" as the Phoenix spacecraft attempts to land on the surface.

The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.

Bill Thompson on how to be safe and keep risk alive online

Microsoft cuts the price of its XP operating system for use in the growing ultra low-cost laptop market.

Hewlett-Packard buys information technology provider EDS for $12.6bn in a bid to take on rival IBM.

A robot which cares for millions of frozen biological samples is among four finalists for a top engineering award.

A computer hacker in Chile posts confidential data belonging to six million people on the internet.

Credit companies are using the Facebook networking site to target young people, a debt charity warns.

US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.

Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

Luminaries predict the shape of tomorrow's world wide web

The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects

Two of the biggest games of the year - GTA IV and Wii Fit - have finally arrived and they could not be more different.

Game design and social networking are merging into one of the most persuasive forces on the net.

Campaigners hoping to save mountain gorillas are making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.

A leading internet academic warns the future of the internet is at risk from closed and proprietorial systems.

Bill Thompson wonders if hi-tech can help keep the Earth habitable for humans.

Bill Thompson on the implications of lax programming of Flash

Humans may never be intimate with machines thinks Bill Thompson

We need to recruit more programmers, says Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson wonders if his virtual presences are having a significant real world impact.

Bill Thompson on how Twitter is beginning to be taken seriously.

The humble mobile phone looks set to become a multimedia, multi-function monster as more features are crammed inside it.

How mobile phones are set to become the gateway to the web

Google's director of mobile platforms explains his vision for Android, a new operating system for mobiles.

Students at a school in Tynemouth carry out a survey of mobile phone use as apart of the BBC's School Report project.

The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law

A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.

The silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem

BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.