In a desperate bid to prevent the government from bringing in tough data laws, major advertising industry groups have announced stricter guidelines on how their members use and collect online data.

Apple has issued gear to its retail stores that can fix the problem of cracked screens.

Symantec has released its public beta-test editions of Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010.

Opinion: Despite Chinese protestations that its controversial Green Dam Youth Escort porn filter will still be mandated on new machines sold in the country, the whole concept is fatally flawed because there isn't a version for non-Windows machines.

German scientists have created batteries so thin that they can be printed out, and reckon they'll be doing it on a commercial scale by the end of the year.

By the end of August 100,000 people a day will succumb to the swine flu virus in the UK, the government said today.

Electronic Arts says that Battlefield 1943, the download-only first person shooter game will be released on the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network next week. Xbox users can download on July 8th, and those on the PlayStation network can download beginning July 9th.

Just when it seemed that Twitter users couldn't become any sadder, news reaches us that an Australian outfit is offering to sell followers to pathetic imbeciles who have no real friends.

The Mozilla team is rushing to create the first minor update for its just-released browser Firefox 3.5 for a mid- to late July release. The update will fix at least three of 55 published bugs in the new browser.

Social networking site Facebook is to add a few more privacy bolts to the security locks it's got in place.

US company Terrestar used an Ariane rocket to blast the world's biggest commercial satellite into space.

Spam scams relating to Michael Jackson's death are spreading like wildfire across the internet.

An ant colony rivalling the scale of human civilisation is right under our noses, according to Japanese and Spanish researchers.

While the EU fulminates over the evils of Microsoft and its unfair competition, we were surprised to find that the company everyone loves to hate actually turns out to be a damned sight more helpful than its rivals when it comes to giving users choice.