1. Net address bug worse than feared
(News/Technology)

...ols the computers that contain the master list of domain name suffixes such as .com and .net Ken Silva, chief technology officer at Verisign, said: "We have anticipated these flaws in DNS for man...

2. Elastic electronics see better
(News/Technology)

...could be wrapped around human organs to act as health monitoring devices, say US-based developers. The new technology is described in a paper in the journal Nature. Photosensitive displays - li...

3. Colombia signs up for XO laptop
(News/Technology)

...s of schoolchildren. OLPC aims to boost the educational prospects of children in developing nations through technology. Small towns and rural areas will get the first 15,000 XO laptops. The rest w...

4. Dell joins cut-down laptop market
(News/Technology)

Dell is joining the burgeoning ranks of companies offering cut-down laptops, called netbooks, aimed at the developing world and general consumers. The laptop was shown by Michael Dell to the editor

5. Web users 'getting more selfish'
(News/Technology)

Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient

6. Historic pictures sent from Mars
(News/Technology)

A Nasa spacecraft has sent back historic first pictures of an unexplored region of Mars. The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 millio

7. Offshoring 'bad for IT pay in UK'
(News/Travel & Business)

...nual salaries at the lowest end of the industry have not risen in five years, according to the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCO). The "offshoring" of low-skilled jobs to...

8. Design revamp for '$100 laptop'
(News/Technology)

...te gave a glimpse of the "book like" device at an unveiling event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first XO2 machines should be ready to deliver to children in 2010. Mr...

9. Microsoft offers cash back search
(News/Technology)

Microsoft is expected to offer cash back to users of its search engine who buy products online, as it attempts to close the gap on rival Google. Users will make savings on products sold by Microsof

10. Net downloads to get age ratings
(News/Technology)

Age ratings for downloaded video content and video games are to be introduced in the UK. Overseen by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the scheme will see certificates appear on webs

11. Icahn supporters buy Yahoo shares
(News/Technology)

Supporters of Carl Icahn's battle to replace the board of Yahoo have been buying up shares in the search engine and online advertising firm. The oil investor T Boone Pickens told the broadcaste

12. Google mulls Microsoft response
(News/Technology)

...icrosoft, Yahoo has been working with Google in recent weeks on a pilot of its rival's search advertising technology. Mr Brin said the two teams had worked very well together. Employing Yang ...

13. Astronomical Observatory introduced at Soneva Fushi
(News/Travel & Business)

...aturn and galaxies made of over 200 billion stars. Using advanced Ritchey-Chretien optics - exactly like same technology used in the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – the telescope offers co...

14. UK software piracy rate declines
(News/Technology)

For the first time in three years the amount of pirated business software on UK computers has fallen. The Business Software Alliance's (BSA) annual survey shows a 1% drop in UK piracy rates to

15. Identity fraud hits net telephony
(News/Technology)

A new type of identity fraud, which sees hackers tapping into voice-over IP telephony accounts, has been highlighted by a VoIP equipment maker. Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP (VoIP) ph

16. Estonian cyber defence hub set up
(News/Technology)

Seven Nato nations have backed a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, which last year blamed Russia for weeks of attacks on its internet structure. Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and S

17. iPhone 'sells out' after price cut
(News/Technology)

...3G data connection speeds. The original iPhone was criticised for its slower 2.5G Edge connection. OLED technology Internet blogs claim the phone will come with an extra digital camera hidden b...

18. 'Free' music service goes live
(News/Technology)

One of the world's biggest record labels has made its complete back catalogue of songs available free over the internet for the first time. Sony BMG, which is the home to artists like Britney S

19. India rejects US advice on Iran
(News/Asia & Region)

...g its nuclear programme for military purposes. Tehran denies seeking nuclear arms, saying it wants nuclear technology purely for peaceful production of energy. Courtesy: BBC News    ...

20. Mac sales push up Apple profits
(News/Technology)

Profits at US technology giant Apple have jumped 36% as consumers snap up its MacBook computers and iPods. The firm made a net profit of $1.05bn (£0.53bn) in the quarter ended 29 March, compa

21. Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo
(News/Technology)

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing sh

22. Report highlights blog censorship
(News/Technology)

Bloggers are now finding themselves prey to censorship from repressive governments as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says. Reporters Without Borders' annual study of press fre

23. YouTube rolls out filtering tools
(News/Technology)

...ice and to sell advertising around the content. Google and YouTube began working on the copyright protection technology six months ago and have partnered with Walt Disney and Time Warner in testing t...

24. India-US nuclear deal 'at risk'
(News/Asia & Region)

.... The Congress party's communist allies say the deal, which would allow India access to civilian nuclear technology and fuel, gives the US leverage on India's foreign policy. 'Difficulti...

25. Net firms quizzed on speed limits
(News/Technology)

Bosses at six of the UK's top net providers are being asked to explain why consumers do not get the broadband speeds firms advertise. The six executives are being questioned by Ofcom's Consum

26. 'Student' in Ohio school rampage
(News/World)

... we would have thought of," she said. The small high school, located in the city centre, specialises in technology education. Responding to reports that a teenage student may have been responsi...

27. Viruses 'hit 1m China computers'
(News/Technology)

Almost one million Chinese computers were hit by viruses during last week's national holidays, state media has reported. Three different types of viruses attacked computers during the holiday w

28. Briton claims first gaming gold
(News/Technology)

British gamer Shaun Clark has won the UK's first gaming gold at the World Cyber Games. Mr Clark, aka Apollooo, took the top medal in the Command & Conquer 3 tournament at the week-long fest

29. Key gene work scoops Nobel Prize
(News/Science & Nature)

...nd their UK collaborator have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their groundbreaking work in gene technology. Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin Evans developed a technique ...

30. Sony offers cut-price PlayStation
(News/Technology)

...have their own divergent models and price points. Mr Maguire said: "The people who want to get into new technology early are prepared to pay a premium. "We want to get the console to the n...