The mobile network condemns a law firm for sending letters to alleged illegal downloaders, including its own customers.

The global economy for mobile applications will explode over the next two years into a $17.5bn industry, a study suggests.

The growth of illegal file-sharing could cost European countries 1.2m jobs and 240bn euros by 2015, an industry report says.

Firms in China that sell advertising on Google demand clarity about the internet company's plans in the region.

An innovative folding plug for UK sockets is named as the overall winner at this year's Brit Insurance Design Awards

Twitter announces its @anywhere technology that will allow websites to embed its services into their web pages.

US regulators send a national broadband plan to Congress in a bid to lead the world in the provision of super-fast internet.

Profits made by cyber criminals in the US more than doubled during 2009 to more than $500m, a report suggests.

Facebook says it is working to take down applications that claim to allow users to see who is viewing their profile.

Networks blur the divide between public and private

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After the digital election, is a digital Parliament next?

Activists are using the tools of hacking to make their point

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The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

Engineers designing the world's fastest car believe they now have a solution to stop it flying off the ground.

The Digital Economy Bill, which includes measures to ban persistent illegal file-sharers, has been passed by peers.

The internet domain name dotcom celebrates its 25th anniversary as nearly 86 million active internet sites now use it.

A row is brewing over separate projects to use the web to bring people closer to their local police forces.

About 24,000 clients of HSBC's private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen, the bank admits.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams believes social networks will become a fundamental way the public communicates with government.

Microsoft has lost a second appeal in a case that will see it pay $240m (£160m) in damages to software firm i4i.

Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK.

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