Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.

The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.

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

The creators of Firefox 3.0 celebrate the news they have set a new world record for software downloads.

The UK government launches a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.

ASA upholds complaint about advertisements lodged by rival broadband provider BT.

A security firm reveals the results of an experiment where 50 people from around the world surfed the web unprotected for ...

Mobile phone firms reach a deadline to cut the price of sending text messages in EU member nations.

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

A 16-year-old from New York State harnesses the power of online social networking to try and break a world record.

Punk-loving robots pogo in the name of science

Are you nervous Viacom will know your online habits?

Microsoft, free software and the future

Telecoms specialist offers his view on rebuilding Burma

Why doctors are switching on to video games

How robots are transforming care in the NHS

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

Plans for Google and Yahoo search advertising deal may stall as the Justice Department investigates.

A French court orders eBay to pay 40 million euros in damages to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing the sale of fake goods.

Recommendations for how ISPs can fight spam are issued by a global body dedicated to looking at the issue.

The chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his day-to-day job at the world's largest software company.

A complete overhaul of the way people navigate the internet has been given the go ahead in Paris.

The hits and misses of his leadership of Microsoft

Behind the scenes at the Mozilla Foundation

How gamers may soon be able to race against top F1 drivers in real time from the comfort of their living room.

For millions of people worldwide Yahoo remains synonymous with the internet itself, but after Microsoft walked away from ...

Google opens testing of new Gmail features to its biggest audience as it calls on tens of millions of users to try them.

Bill Thompson on the end of the Bill Gates era

Bill Thompson asks if the web changes how we think

Bill Thompson believes Virgin Media has decided it likes record companies more than its customers.

Internet law professor Michael Geist examines implications of new anti-counterfeiting agreement.

Bill Thompson argues that data and apps in the cloud need to be given better protection.

Bill Thompson considers the impact of a prosecution in the US for creating a fake MySpace page.

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

Developers are being urged to unleash their creativity and make the mobile future a reality and bring the world to everyone's ...

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.

A look at the future computing technologies which will go beyond Moore's Law.

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

A look inside the surreal and ultra-clean world of the silicon manufacturing plant.

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