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Virtual telescope opens night sky - Microsoft launches a free tool that allows amateur star-gazers to explore the universe from their computers.

Google helps the web to go social - The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.

HP in $12.6bn challenge to IBM - Hewlett-Packard buys information technology provider EDS for $12.6bn in a bid to take on rival IBM.

XP boosted on budget PCs - Microsoft cuts the price of its XP operating system for use in the growing ultra low-cost laptop market.

Frigid robot eyes top tech prize - A robot which cares for millions of frozen biological samples is among four finalists for a top engineering award.

Hacker leaks Chilean records - A computer hacker in Chile posts confidential data belonging to six million people on the internet.

Facebook users warned about ads - Credit companies are using the Facebook networking site to target young people, a debt charity warns.

Power healing - Bill Thompson on hi-tech ways to be greener

Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering - US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.

Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine - Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

Facebook agrees child safety plan - Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.

MySpace lets users share data - MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.

Google keen on better Yahoo ties - Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.

Fake media file snares PC users - A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm.

Nasa set to join petaflop elite - Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.

Luminaries look to the future web - Luminaries predict the shape of tomorrow's world wide web

Xerox plans the future of today - The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects

Games straddle worlds - Two of the biggest games of the year - GTA IV and Wii Fit - have finally arrived and they could not be more different.

The power of play on the internet - Game design and social networking are merging into one of the most persuasive forces on the net.

Free game hopes to save gorillas - Campaigners hoping to save mountain gorillas are making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.

Stark warning for internet's future - A leading internet academic warns the future of the internet is at risk from closed and proprietorial systems.

Making something from nothing - Bill Thompson on the implications of lax programming of Flash

Falling out of love with robots - Humans may never be intimate with machines thinks Bill Thompson

Who will write tomorrow's code? - We need to recruit more programmers, says Bill Thompson

The offline cost of an online life - Bill Thompson wonders if his virtual presences are having a significant real world impact.

How Twitter makes it real - Bill Thompson on how Twitter is beginning to be taken seriously.

New Wii craze is opening up - Bill Thompson on how the Wii is controlling more than the games market these days.

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.

Walking with the web - How mobile phones are set to become the gateway to the web

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 -

Future computing technologies - The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law

Getting more from Moore's Law - A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.

A journey into 'fab world' - The silicon factories where a speck of dust is a big problem

Meeting computing's prophet - BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.

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