New share structure at Facebook
Social networking site Facebook creates a dual-class share structure to give its owners full control over the company.

Two retailers suspend smartphone
The Sony Ericsson Satio handset has been withdrawn from the shelves of two mobile retailers after problems are reported.

Row over Michelle Obama image
Google apologises over a racially offensive image of Michelle Obama that appears when users search for the US first lady.

Opera 'censors' Chinese content
Web browser Opera has closed a loophole which allowed Chinese users to access sites banned by the government.

Europe votes on new telecoms law
MEPs pass a bill that will strengthen net users' rights and make broadband universal across Europe.

Protests grow over digital bill
Petitions and protests are planned in the wake of government plans to tackle persistent pirates.

Games 'permit' virtual war crimes
Many war games allow players to commit what would be war crimes in the real world, finds a study.

New iPhone worm is 'more serious'
A second worm which infects modified iPhones has been discovered by security company F-Secure.

Call to jam prison mobile signals
An independent inspector calls for mobile phone signals in prisons to be jammed to help prevent crime and drug dealing by inmates.

Google to release thousands of images of Iraq artefacts online
Google says 14,000 images of the precious artefacts kept in Iraq's National Museum will be available online early next year.

Norway opens osmotic power plant
The world's first power project that generates energy by mixing fresh water with sea water opens in Norway.

Free and friendly
Why the future of gaming lies in social networking

Crime time
The police are turning to Twitter and Facebook

After the hype
Once it was huge, but what happened to Second Life?

Computer curse
The man who wrote the first ever computer virus

Beams collide in Big Bang machine
Engineers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have smashed together proton beams in the machine for the first time.

YouTube gets automatic subtitles
Automatic captions for YouTube videos are to roll out across its channels, says parent company Google.

UK climate unit's e-mails hacked
The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.

Facebook acts on follower trade
Social networking site Facebook has threatened legal action against a site that sells friends and followers.

CD player production ends at Linn
A manufacturer of hi-fi systems sounds what it says could be the death knell of the compact disc player.

Twitter urges Murdoch to be open
Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of Twitter says.

First test for record solar plane
The prototype of a solar-powered plane destined for a record round-the-world journey makes its first trip across a runway.

Tiny chip could diagnose disease
A simple and cheap approach to diagnosing a wide array of medical conditions has been demonstrated by researchers.

Worlds apart
We need atoms as well as bits, says Bill Thompson

Social media challenges society
How social media challenges age-old social rules

An internet that speaks to you
Bill Thompson welcomes moves to make the net multi-lingual.

Is e-democracy a good thing?
Digital Britain requires a pause for thought, writes Bill Thompson

When Big Brother turns bad
Sex, drugs and breakdowns for net pioneer

Wikipedia's future in Africa
Net encyclopaedia Wikipedia to expand in Africa

Panel power
Solar power technology comes of age.

Europe fights Google's book plans
Europe fights Google's book plans