Sting's wife Trudie Styler and Janis Sharp have presented a petition to Number 10 calling for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon not to be extradited to the US. Styler, and Sharp, who is McKinnon's...

The next version of the web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers

Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment showed the systems successfully handled large amounts of information, according to Cern

The FCO has withdrawn a tender, worth up to £2.5bn, for a next-generation telecoms network to replace the Government Secure Intranet and other services

Three patent applications made by Apple were published on Thursday, covering technologies including haptics, fingerprint recognition and RFID. The haptic feedback patent, if approved, would...

The company has also made it possible for enterprise and education users of Google Apps to share templates for documents, spreadsheets and presentations internally

Investigators with the US Justice Department will investigate whether Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws

British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has credited techies for being among the 7,000 of BA's 40,000 staff who helped the company save cash by cutting back on hours or pay

A vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages could be used to track the location of the handset, turn on the microphone, or turn the phone into botnet zombie

Enthusiasts have spotted wording in a leaked test build of the operating system that suggests Microsoft may offer a three-PC deal with the new Windows

Over in San Francisco yesterday, the brand-new NoSQL movement held its first public meeting. 150 bitwranglers from outfits large and small absorbed ten presentations about how to handle data in the...

Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM

Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks

After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring

Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping...

Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions

The government's proposed 50p charge on fixed lines will not be enough to extend next-generation broadband coverage across the whole UK, BT's strategy chief has said

Juniper Networks has cancelled a researcher's talk at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences following a complaint from a vendor

A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up

Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service

Canonical will provide services to support companies building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls

The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo

The home secretary's announcement that carrying an ID card will never be compulsory for British citizens has prompted many to question its future

At the same time, Microsoft's open-source software licence, MS-PL, is gaining in popularity, according to a study by Black Duck

An EU-funded project uses brute force and intelligence to auto-optimise mobile software

The first Microsoft mega datacentre outside the US will take advantage of the 'cool climate' and will power Azure and Bing, the company says

BA's chief executive has said the airline will not retrofit in-flight mobile comms to aircraft already in service as it would prove too expensive

The company's new Secure Cloud managed service aims to shield sensitive information from other users of a cloud by scattering the data across different storage sites

The project to develop a European civilian rival to the US's military GPS system was hampered by poor management, the European Court of Auditors has found

Over 83 percent of spam in June was sent from botnets, says a new report, while instant messages with malicious links and web-based malware are also on the rise

Limits on the tariffs charged for mobile calls, text messages and data usage will end the 'roaming rip-off', according to Commissioner Viviane Reding

Government IT security training co-ordination will shift from the Cabinet Office to GCHQ

Researcher Forrester's prediction is a significant increase on its earlier forecast that worldwide IT spending would drop three percent in 2009

The government has announced a venture-capital fund for tech-based businesses that will match private-sector contributions of up to £150m

The company has cloud plans for its WebEx unified communications service, and intends to support both platform and top-layer SaaS delivery

Hours before the policy was due to start, China has delayed indefinitely a plan to force manufacturers to bundle internet-filtering software with PCs sold in the country

Pilots will not be required to have national ID cards, while pensioners over 75 will be given the cards free under new Home Office plans

The major upgrade to the popular open-source browser provides private surfing, location awareness and support for HTML 5 features such as open-standards video

The world of European mobile communications was not rocked to its very foundations this week, as 3 announced a £1.25/MB data roaming deal followed by Vodafone offering up £5 per diem/25MB max. ...

Integration of RIM service with BT's unified communications platform means BlackBerry users will be able to use Wi-Fi rather than cell networks to make calls

Global Gaming Factory, which develops distribution software for use in internet cafes, has announced it will buy the file-sharing site for £4.7m

The merger of Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk ISP and Tiscali UK will not be anti-competitive, the European Commission has ruled

A select committee is to investigate Lord Carter's Digital Britain recommendations, which include a 2Mbps universal minimum broadband speed and a 50p-per-month levy on fixed lines

Fergus Ewing, minister for community safety, has written to the UK home secretary reiterating the Scottish government's opposition to national identity cards

With mobile connectivity doubling every year, it is on track to reach even the smallest of household items. So expect smart toothbrushes and the like in a decade's time, according to Ericsson

A Californian law firm is looking for potential plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over laptop makers' battery life claims. Girard Gibbs has put up a webpage referring to AMD's claims that...

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China has called on Beijing to reconsider implementing filtering software, saying it raised concerns about security and privacy

The company's chief executive has officially returned from a six-month medical leave of absence

Dell is developing a pocket-size internet device to take on Apple's iPod Touch, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal

MP Andrew Miller, leader of parliament's IT committee, has lent his support to a consortium calling for a £1bn fund to stimulate investment in green tech and shared services