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Net firms in music pirates deal
Six of the UK's biggest net providers sign up to a government plan to tackle illegal file-sharing.

'Neglect' of codebreakers' HQ
UK academics sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.

Facebook libel case damages won
A businessman wins £22,000 in libel and breach of privacy after his personal details were printed on the Facebook website.

Manned spaceship design unveiled
The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.

MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme
Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.

Family lose Narnia web name fight
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

'Spying' requests exceed 500,000
More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data were made last year, a report says.

Sky launches net music service
The satellite TV firm teams up with Universal Music to offer downloads for a monthly fee.

Disappointing results from Yahoo
Yahoo reports an 18% fall in three month profits in a period when it was fighting off a bid from Microsoft.

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Apple sees profits beat forecast
US technology giant Apple sees profits beat forecasts, but its shares fall as it warns of slower earnings ahead.

Tiscali accuses BT of defamation
Tiscali has issued legal proceedings against BT after it sent letters to its customers.

Oyster card hack to be published
A Dutch judge rules that details of how to copy Oyster cards can be published.

Net TV technology seeks testers
A European project to create net TV technology is looking for help testing its prototype program.

Yahoo strikes deal with Icahn
Yahoo reaches an agreement with the activist investor Carl Icahn that will stop him trying to replace its board.

Facebook challenges German rival
Germany's Studivz says the intellectual property dispute that Facebook has brought against it is without merit.

Computer mouse faces extinction
Gestural interfaces could spell the end for the humble computer mouse says analyst company Gartner.

Robots scale new heights
Wall-climbing robots have been developed by scientists in America using the same principles behind electrostatics that make balloons stick to ceilings after being rubbed.

Farewell Mr Gates
The hits and misses of his leadership of Microsoft

Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0
Behind the scenes at the Mozilla Foundation

Real racing in the virtual world
How gamers may soon be able to race against top F1 drivers in real time from the comfort of their living room.

Yahoo goes back to its roots
For millions of people worldwide Yahoo remains synonymous with the internet itself, but after Microsoft walked away from buying the firm what does the future hold?

Making punishment fit the crime
Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.

Closing the Gates after Bill
Bill Thompson on the end of the Bill Gates era

Changing the way we think
Bill Thompson asks if the web changes how we think

Virgin territory for ISPs
Bill Thompson believes Virgin Media has decided it likes record companies more than its customers.

Trade agreement could hit privacy
Internet law professor Michael Geist examines implications of new anti-counterfeiting agreement.

Why the future is in your hands
The humble mobile phone looks set to become a multimedia, multi-function monster as more features are crammed inside it.

The mobile future is calling
Developers are being urged to unleash their creativity and make the mobile future a reality and bring the world to everyone's phone.

Google bets on Android future
Google's director of mobile platforms explains his vision for Android, a new operating system for mobiles.

Pupils reveal mobile snapshot
Students at a school in Tynemouth carry out a survey of mobile phone use as apart of the BBC's School Report project.

Nokia morphs itself from within

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