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 | Barclays eyes Oyster credit card |
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| A new contactless credit card, combined with a London transport Oyster card, is to be launched by Barclays. |
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| Personalised adverts on mobile TV |
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| Mobile TV viewers in Norway will be served personalised adverts according to their tastes and background. |
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| Christian video game draws anger |
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| A new Christian video game spurs boycott calls, with critics calling it "both the Inquisition and the Crusades". |
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| Crackdown for Chinese gamers |
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| China is enforcing more monitoring of online games, a state news agency in the country reports. |
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| Apple denies download sales fall |
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| Apple denies a report which claims US sales from its iTunes Music Store fell 65% in the first half of 2006. |
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| DIY developers to make Xbox games |
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| Microsoft officially launches a set of tools that it hopes will become a kind of YouTube for videogames. |
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| New rules for broadband switchers |
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| New rules should make it easier for UK net users to switch broadband suppliers. |
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| Community websites take wiki path |
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| The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites. |
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| Six-month losses widen at iSoft |
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| Software firm iSoft, which is being investigated over its accounts, reports widening losses and falling sales. |
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| Battery group seeks laptop safety |
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| Updated safety standards for laptop batteries should be in place within the next 12 months, a working group says. |
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| Ofcom plans radio spectrum sale |
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| Ofcom reveals plans to auction off parts of the radio spectrum for broadband and mobile services. |
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| Reid targets online paedophiles |
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| John Reid says new measures to protect children online - including a parental alarm - are to be unveiled. |
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| Remote access keeps you in touch |
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| BBC Click looks at how remote access is set to transform our lives, ensuring we are never away from any data. |
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| HP pays $14.5m to end probe |
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| Hewlett-Packard agrees to pay $14.5m to settle a lawsuit over its much-criticised probe into a boardroom leak. |
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| Greece bans mobiles in schools |
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| Greece bans pupils from taking mobile phones to school, after a rape at school was reportedly filmed by students. |
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| Wii shortages frustrating gamers |
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| Shortages of Nintendo Wii consoles leave some gamers who pre-ordered the new machine frustrated. |
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| How to strum your way to success |
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| Guitar Hero II gives budding rock gods another chance to ascend to musical nirvana. |
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| Microsoft predicts 1m Zune sales |
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| Microsoft says it expects to sell more than one million Zune music players by the end of June 2007. |
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| US net journalist found dead |
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| Rescuers find the body of a US man who set off on foot to find help for his family, trapped in a snowbound car in Oregon. |
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| Concern over mobile music-sharing |
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| Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phone without realising they can be breaking the law. |
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| Heathrow begins biometric trials |
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| A new system of biometric security scanners is being trialled by passengers at Heathrow airport. |
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| BSkyB broadband to partner Google |
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| Satellite TV firm BSkyB says it will work with Google in order to develop its broadband services and products. |
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| Copyright pirates face crackdown |
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| A report on copyright and piracy laws says large scale offenders should face longer jail terms. |
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| Chess champion loses to computer |
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| World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik loses a six-game encounter with chess computer Deep Fritz. |
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| BT signs live football match deal |
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| BT will air live Premiership matches on its new TV service thanks to a deal with Setanta. |
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| Deal signed on .com domain future |
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| The US government rubber stamps a deal that gives the .com administrator control over the domain until 2012. |
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| US warns of al-Qaeda net threat |
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| The US government warns of a possible al-Qaeda call to attack US financial online services. |
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| Manchester plans free city wi-fi |
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| Manchester City Council plans free wi-fi zone covering more than 400 square miles. |
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| Search engine aids rights workers |
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| Human rights groups have set up their own-brand search engine to pool data and co-ordinate campaigns. |
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