UK CMS News and Technology News
Boom times ahead for mobile web
Unprecedented demand will see mobile web-using devices proliferate over the next four years, predicts Intel.
Net firms in music pirates deal
Six of the UK's biggest net providers sign up to a government plan to tackle illegal file-sharing.
Prisons to ban adult-rated games
Adult prisoners in England and Wales are to be banned from playing 18-rated computer games.
'Neglect' of codebreakers' HQ
UK academics sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.
Payout for false Facebook profile
A businessman wins £22,000 in libel and breach of privacy after his personal details were printed on the Facebook website.
Manned spaceship design unveiled
The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.
MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme
Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.
Family lose Narnia web name fight
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.
'Spying' requests exceed 500,000
More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data were made last year, a report says.
Disappearing dialects make digital archive
An academic study of English dialects in Wales conducted over decades is digitised and donated to the British Library.
Get your up-to-date fix of blog posts about all things digital
Game On
How LittleBigPlanet turns PS3 players into creators
Healing plans
HP's nanotech vision of how to save a sick planet
Great seal
How Facebook plans to police add-ons to its site
Help! Bug!
When to shout about security flaws
DIY broadband
The communities that are laying their own fibre
Arabic Wikimania
How to extend the Wikipedia footprint
Sky launches net music service
The satellite TV firm teams up with Universal Music to offer downloads for a monthly fee.
Disappointing results from Yahoo
Yahoo reports an 18% fall in three month profits in a period when it was fighting off a bid from Microsoft.
Apple sees profits beat forecast
US technology giant Apple sees profits beat forecasts, but its shares fall as it warns of slower earnings ahead.
Tiscali accuses BT of defamation
Tiscali has issued legal proceedings against BT after it sent letters to its customers.
Oyster card hack to be published
A Dutch judge rules that details of how to copy Oyster cards can be published.
Net TV technology seeks testers
A European project to create net TV technology is looking for help testing its prototype program.
Computer mouse faces extinction
Gestural interfaces could spell the end for the humble computer mouse says analyst company Gartner.
Robots scale new heights
Wall-climbing robots have been developed by scientists in America using the same principles behind electrostatics that make balloons stick to ceilings after being rubbed.
Farewell Mr Gates
The hits and misses of his leadership of Microsoft
Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0
Behind the scenes at the Mozilla Foundation
Real racing in the virtual world
How gamers may soon be able to race against top F1 drivers in real time from the comfort of their living room.
Yahoo goes back to its roots
For millions of people worldwide Yahoo remains synonymous with the internet itself, but after Microsoft walked away from buying the firm what does the future hold?
Making punishment fit the crime
Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.
Closing the Gates after Bill
Bill Thompson on the end of the Bill Gates era
Changing the way we think
Bill Thompson asks if the web changes how we think
Virgin territory for ISPs
Bill Thompson believes Virgin Media has decided it likes record companies more than its customers.
Trade agreement could hit privacy
Internet law professor Michael Geist examines implications of new anti-counterfeiting agreement.
Why the future is in your hands
The humble mobile phone looks set to become a multimedia, multi-function monster as more features are crammed inside it.
The mobile future is calling
Developers are being urged to unleash their creativity and make the mobile future a reality and bring the world to everyone's phone.
Google bets on Android future
Google's director of mobile platforms explains his vision for Android, a new operating system for mobiles.
Pupils reveal mobile snapshot
Students at a school in Tynemouth carry out a survey of mobile phone use as apart of the BBC's School Report project.
Nokia morphs itself from within
Future directions in computing
A look at the future computing technologies which will go beyond Moore's Law.
Getting more from Moore's Law
A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.
Cleaning up in 'fab world'
A look inside the surreal and ultra-clean world of the silicon manufacturing plant.
The man behind Moore's Law
BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.
BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Last updated: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:25:51 GMT
Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse
