Foreign aid workers dedicated to delivering emergency telecoms are prevented from going into Burma.

Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.

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

MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.

Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.

A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm.

Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.

Google executive Elliot Schrage leaves for Facebook, prompting concern of a talent exodus.

Virtual worlds for children are booming. Will they all survive?

New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely are launched.

PlayStation 3 will help Sony reclaim its spot as the leading console maker, says the head of the firm's games division.

A mother whose daughter was murdered by a man addicted to violent web porn wins her bid to have it outlawed.

File-sharing site TorrentSpy is ordered to pay damages to the US film industry for copyright theft.

A company which offers super-fast broadband via the sewers announces its first 'fibre city'.

Ofcom considers how the airwaves will help improve health and transport in the future.

A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth.

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.

Rounding up the week that was Web 2.0 by looking at the main themes and assessing what comes next

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.

Bill Thompson on how the Wii is controlling more than the games market these days.

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.

Will a plane-car hybrid be the future of transport?