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 | Private-eye hackers are convicted |
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| Two police officers who set up a detective agency are convicted of hacking into e-mails on behalf of clients. |
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| Cultural past of the digital age |
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| Regular columnist Bill Thompson asks how technology is changing the way we think about books and film. |
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| Mobile phone firms lose tax case |
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| Mobile phone firms lose their legal fight to reclaim tax they said they paid to acquire expensive licences in the UK. |
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| Two-tiered net could be coming |
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| An analyst firm predicts ISPs could start charging websites for faster, prioritised access to its customers. |
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| for US web radio |
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| Web radio broadcasters go off air in protest at plans to hike royalty payments when music is played online. |
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| EC threat to BBC over downloads |
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| The BBC is threatened with a complaint to the EC over use of Microsoft software in its iPlayer. |
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| Yahoo sees advertising shake-up |
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| Yahoo is overhauling the way it sells advertising in the US, in an effort to help revive the business. |
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| Leader of net piracy gang jailed |
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| A Briton who operated a net piracy gang out of his Australian home is jailed in the US for 51 months. |
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| Social sites reveal class divide |
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| Social networking sites are proving a good guide to socio-economic divisions in the US, reveals research. |
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| Attack closes Pentagon e-mail |
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| The Pentagon shuts down e-mail accounts after a hacker manages to penetrate the system. |
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| to UK democracy |
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| Unreliable electronic voting systems could undermine UK democracy warns a report |
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| New Yahoo boss buys sport website |
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| Jerry Yang makes his first move as chief executive of Yahoo, buying the college sports website Rivals.com. |
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| From here to cyberspace |
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| Regular columnist Bill Thompson takes a look at the future of social networking sites. |
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| The Tech Lab: Dave Winer |
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| Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his new technologies vision. |
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| on Yahoo deal |
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| News Corp is reportedly considering selling MySpace to Yahoo for a 25% stake in the internet search firm. |
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| sites |
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| Thousands of websites have been infected with code that tries to install keylogging software, say security firms. |
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| Ofcom secures radio mic future |
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| Regulator u-turns on decision to auction off spectrum relied on by theatres, broadcasters and concert organisers. |
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| video game |
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| A violent video game blamed for the death of a teenager is banned by British censors. |
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| s drive for clean future |
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| Web giant Google is backing hybrid cars as part of its plan to make the entire firm carbon neutral by 2008. |
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| YouTube makes international move |
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| YouTube announces nine international versions of its popular web video service. |
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| Paedophile ring smashed by police |
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| A man is jailed after police smashed a paedophile ring run from the UK and involving people from 35 countries. |
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| Blockbuster to focus on Blu-ray |
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| Film rental firm Blockbuster says it will rent only Blu-ray high-definition DVDs at 1,450 of its US stores. |
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| Yahoo boss steps down from post |
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| Terry Semel quits as the chief executive of internet search firm Yahoo and is replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang. |
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| Hackers meet for coding festival |
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| The BBC and Yahoo are holding a hack day for web developers and designers. |
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| The Tech Lab: Niklas Zennstroem |
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| Niklas Zennstroem, the co-founder of Skype, explains how the net will shape the emergence of new technologies. |
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| London leads in city wi-fi race |
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| The numbers of wi-fi access points in London grew by 160% in a year, suggests a survey. |
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| Angry eBay pulls Google adverts |
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| Auction website eBay pulls its US advertising from search engine giant and adversary Google. |
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| Sony apologises over violent game |
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| Sony apologises for using Manchester cathedral as a backdrop to one of its violent games. |
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| Web tool to help survivors cope |
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| US researchers are turning to peer-to-peer technology to help in the wake of natural disasters. |
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