Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online.
OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike.
The US-only service allows people to …

  The UK government has been laying out some of the ways it intends to pursue persistent net pirates.
It comes as Lord Mandelson confirmed that he would introduce tough measures against illegal file-sharers.
Initially pirates could …

Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget.
According to security firm Sophos, the website was delivering advertisements "laced with …

  A service that gave many people their first taste of building and owning a web page is set to close.
Yahoo-owned GeoCities once boasted millions of users and was the third most popular destination on …

  Microsoft is hoping that its newly-launched operating system will be one that "doesn’t let you down".
Speaking at the official launch of Windows 7 in London, Microsoft executives said they had listened to consumers and …

  A BBC plan to share the use of its iPlayer technology with other broadcasters has been rejected by the BBC Trust.
The Trust said it "supported the principle of sharing the iPlayer more widely" but …

Online criminals are making millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-virus software, internet security experts claim.
Symantec says more than 40 million people have fallen victim to the "scareware" scam …

  Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school.
President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 …

  Smartphones are going mass market, fuelled by the public’s "insatiable appetite" for social media, analysts say.
They predict an explosion in sales alongside price falls for smart handsets next year.
It comes in a week which …

Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account.
The problem appears to affect those who had a guest account …

  Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company’s plans to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library.
Writing in the New York Times, Mr Brin said he wanted to …

  YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website.
Chad Hurley’s blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube’s controversial acquisition by Google.
The …