BBC News - Technology
The latest stories from the Technology section of the BBC News web site.
09/02/2010 02:45 PM
Global broadband divide revealed
The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures.
09/02/2010 11:34 AM
US seeks input on net data rules
US net users are being asked for their opinions about what ISPs should be allowed to do with web traffic flowing through their networks.
09/01/2010 09:48 PM
Apple creates a social network
Apple launches a music-based social network called Ping as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software.
09/01/2010 06:33 PM
Sony rolls out rival to iTunes
Sony has unveiled its own music and video download service in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event.
09/01/2010 06:04 PM
Roaming iPhone glitch continues
Mobile operator O2 and Apple are still resolving a months-old data roaming issue, with customers complaining of charges they didn't incur.
09/01/2010 03:56 PM
Rival benefits from Digg revamp
A revamp of the social-news site Digg has unexpectedly backfired on its owners after members redirected traffic to a rival site.
09/01/2010 12:50 PM
Wikileaks rape inquiry reopened
Sweden's director of public prosecutions orders the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
09/01/2010 08:17 AM
Motion control
The PlayStation Move controller put on test
09/01/2010 04:25 AM
Orange rolls out mobile HD voice
Mobile firm Orange becomes the first UK network to use a new technology that claims to offer higher quality voice calls.
09/01/2010 01:01 AM
Advert watchdog gets online power
The Advertising Standards Authority is given the power to regulate ads and marketing claims on websites and services like Facebook.
08/31/2010 07:05 PM
Phone app to monitor heartbeat
More than three million doctors have downloaded a phone application to monitor heartbeats through a phone.
08/31/2010 01:27 PM
Google and Skype face India ban
Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype.
08/31/2010 12:46 PM
Who are 4chan?
The internet pranksters who helped expose cat bin lady
08/31/2010 10:49 AM
Google to relieve e-mail overload
Google launches priority inbox to help conquer e-mail overload and rank messages in the order that they matter most.
08/31/2010 10:16 AM
Perfect pitch
Can technology and music happily coexist?
08/30/2010 10:28 AM
Blackberry looks to strike India deal
The Canadian owners of Blackberry, Research in Motion, have offered an olive branch to the Indian government in the bitter battle over e-mail secrecy.
08/30/2010 09:42 AM
Turning brainwaves into music
Musicians Finn Peters and Matthew Yee-King attempt to convert John Humphrys and Justin Webb's thoughts into music
08/30/2010 09:21 AM
Go with the flow
Swarms of marine turbines could 'tap the Gulf Stream'
08/28/2010 11:10 AM
'A relentless barrage of abuse'
Groups who work with the victims of cyber-stalking say efforts to tackle the problem are being delayed because Internet Service Providers will not take action.
08/28/2010 01:12 AM
Billionaire sues hi-tech giants
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s.
08/27/2010 04:26 PM
Art and technology push boundaries
The Creators Project is a new network celebrating technology and creativity in the clubbing scene, across media and around the world. Click paid it a visit.
08/27/2010 12:53 PM
'Missing' Metropolis film restored
Stephen Smith considers what made Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis, so hugely influential, as a newly restored version of the sci-fi epic is premiered in London.
08/18/2010 09:28 AM
Paint prose
The source code MacPaint is released but who can read it?
07/16/2010 03:18 PM
Step away from the iPod
Banning technology from classrooms is unlikely to solve any problems, thinks Bill Thompson.