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Family lose Narnia web name fight

3 hours 16 min ago
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

Facebook libel case damages won

6 hours 1 min ago
A businessman wins £22,000 in libel and breach of privacy after his personal details were printed on the Facebook website.

Great seal

6 hours 13 min ago
How Facebook plans to police add-ons to its site

Net firms in music pirates deal

6 hours 54 min ago
Six of the UK's biggest net providers sign up to a government plan to tackle illegal file-sharing.

'Neglect' of codebreakers' HQ

15 hours 43 min ago
UK academics sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.

Disappearing dialects make digital archive

23 July 2008 - 2:13pm
An academic study of English dialects in Wales conducted over decades is digitised and donated to the British Library.

DIY broadband

23 July 2008 - 10:58am
The communities that are laying their own fibre

Arabic Wikimania

23 July 2008 - 9:46am
How to extend the Wikipedia footprint

MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme

23 July 2008 - 9:27am
Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.

Manned spaceship design unveiled

22 July 2008 - 9:56pm
The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.

Disappointing results from Yahoo

22 July 2008 - 9:41pm
Yahoo reports an 18% fall in three month profits in a period when it was fighting off a bid from Microsoft.

'Spying' requests exceed 500,000

22 July 2008 - 7:56pm
More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data were made last year, a report says.

Help! Bug!

22 July 2008 - 3:57pm
When to shout about security flaws

Tiscali accuses BT of defamation

22 July 2008 - 3:27pm
Tiscali has issued legal proceedings against BT after it sent letters to its customers.

Sky launches net music service

22 July 2008 - 1:03pm
The satellite TV firm teams up with Universal Music to offer downloads for a monthly fee.

Apple sees profits beat forecast

21 July 2008 - 9:51pm
US technology giant Apple sees profits beat forecasts, but its shares fall as it warns of slower earnings ahead.

Yahoo strikes deal with Icahn

21 July 2008 - 12:41pm
Yahoo reaches an agreement with the activist investor Carl Icahn that will stop him trying to replace its board.

Net TV technology seeks testers

21 July 2008 - 11:28am
A European project to create net TV technology is looking for help testing its prototype program.

Facebook challenges German rival

21 July 2008 - 9:38am
Germany's Studivz says the intellectual property dispute that Facebook has brought against it is without merit.

Oyster card hack to be published

21 July 2008 - 9:20am
A Dutch judge rules that details of how to copy Oyster cards can be published.