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 | Mobile phone use backed on planes |
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| Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes flying through European airspace. |
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| Town wakes up to digital future |
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| Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first area in the UK to officially begin switching from analogue to digital TV. |
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| Apple to open up iPhone software |
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| Apple boss Steve Jobs says outside developers will now be allowed to make add-on software for the iPhone. |
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| Industry reacts to games review |
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| Leading figures in the games industry give their views on the government-commissioned review into gaming. |
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| Laptop demand lifts Intel profits |
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| Chipmaker Intel sees its latest profits surge 43%, lifted by strong demand for its laptop microprocessors. |
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| First town switches to digital TV |
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| Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first area in the UK to officially begin switching from analogue to digital TV. |
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| YouTube rolls out filtering tools |
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| Video site YouTube is launching filtering tools to clamp down on video sharing without permission. |
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| MySpace starts Skype call service |
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| Social network MySpace joins with internet phone firm Skype to allow MySpace users to make calls to each other. |
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| Report highlights blog censorship |
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| Bloggers are now prey to government censorship as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says. |
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| Russian schools move to Linux |
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| Schoolchildren in Russia are to be taught using the free, open-source Linux software. |
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| Are games about to hit prime time? |
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| As video games start to be shown on mainstream TV, are gamers about to become new sports stars? |
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| The whole of the net in your hand |
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| Mobile operators are starting to wake up to the potential of giving their customers access to the net. |
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| Drive advance fuels terabyte era |
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| A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage could be a reality by 2011, says Japanese firm Hitachi. |
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| Kenya awards internet cable deal |
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| Alcatel-Lucent wins the undersea internet cable project to give Kenya better links with the world. |
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| Electronic Arts in $855m purchase |
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| US games giant EA is to buy two video game studios in a deal that adds role-playing titles to its portfolio. |
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| Comic Pegg set for Star Trek film |
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| Hot Fuzz star Simon Pegg is poised to play Scotty in the new Star Trek film, directed by JJ Abrams. |
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| Wi-fi health study gets go ahead |
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| The health effects of wi-fi networks are to be investigated by the UK government. |
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| Skies to be swept for alien life |
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| A telescope array specifically designed to seek alien life has been switched on in California. |
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| Video games: the next generation |
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| BBC Click finds out what the games industry expects to find in the next generation of games. |
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| Call to politicians on technology |
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| Politicians must "learn to let go of power" as technology develops, Tory leader David Cameron says. |
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| Universal avatars bestride worlds |
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| Soon you could have one digital double that can walk through any and every virtual world. |
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| Net firms quizzed on speed limits |
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| Top British net firms are asked to explain why broadband speeds often fall short of what is advertised. |
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| s challenge to privacy |
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| Internet law professor Michael Geist wonders whether technology threatens the legal foundations of privacy law. |
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| Share and share alike |
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| Sharing wireless may be the way to universal net access, says Bill Thompson. |
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| video game new ban |
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| A revised version of the video game Manhunt 2 is refused a certificate in the UK for a second time. |
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| Internet names for Asia launched |
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| The .asia domain has started taking applications from governments and firms who want to secure a net name. |
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| Games violence study is launched |
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| The government is to ask for evidence of the effect of violent computer games on children as a review is launched. |
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| MPs call for identity fraud tsar |
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| An identity fraud tsar should be appointed to help crackdown on the crime, a group of MPs says. |
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| Demand lifts Blackberry firm |
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| Blackberry-maker RIM sees its latest profits more than double, thanks to surging subscriber numbers. |
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