Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.

There are reports of chaos at a petrol station which gave away £20,000 of petrol to promote a video game.

The number of home computers hijacked by hi-tech criminals leaps during the summer, says a security monitoring firm.

Electronics firm Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops because of wiring faults that may cause overheating.

Google changes its licence agreement for its new browser after initially claiming rights to anything its users posted or ...

Microsoft is to cut the US price of the Xbox Arcade to $199 - cheaper than the Nintendo Wii.

Technology to reveal dangerous changes in blood pressure during delicate brain surgery is under development.

Those bypassed by first generation broadband should go directly to super-fast services, says an Ofcom panel.

Search engine Google is launching an open source web browser, Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Will the new game from Will Wright be a hit or a miss?

As Google turns ten it looks to its next decade

Reinventing the wheel to help disabled people

The ups and downs of converting to open source

The web becomes a gaming surface in its own right

Safety is hard work, says columnist Bill Thompson

Handset manufacturer Nokia steps up music strategy with 'Comes with Music' handset.

Lawyers for a Briton accused of hacking into military computers ask for government help to ensure he is not jailed in the ...

Mobile owners with views on the state of the telephony market are being sought by regulator Ofcom.

Cyber thieves are hatching a plan to steal US funds through British supermarkets, the BBC learns.

The amount of spam in your e-mail inbox may depend on the first letter in your address, reveals a study.

Technology developed to protect soldiers from chemical weapons may help to make almost any surface or fabric waterproof.

Virtual objects can be felt in mid-air thanks to a pioneering approach using ultrasound.

The simulator that trains soldiers to deal with danger

Chip giant Intel signs a deal with Yahoo to make the TV set much more web aware.

Nearly half a million people in developing countries earn virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study shows.

Supporters of open source software are claiming victory after a US court ruled copyright protection applies to their work.

How UK team won the Championship Gaming Series.

The technology that keeps the net running turns 40

Gestural interfaces could spell the end for the humble computer mouse says analyst company Gartner.

Bill Thompson is worried that the methods we are using to keep kids safe on mobiles have stopped being useful.

Bill Thompson is keeping an eye on the Olympics but isn't interested in medal winners

Regular columnist Bill Thompson says the virtual world still needs a lot of work if it is to replace the real world.

Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.

Bill Thompson on the end of the Bill Gates era

Bill Thompson asks if the web changes how we think

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.