Google asked to pause rule change

An EU data protection group writes to Google to ask them to suspend changes to their privacy

VIDEO: ‘Flying people’ and other tech news

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a remote-controlled man-shaped plane.

The internet’s secret black market

Drugs and guns for sale on the internet’s black

VIDEO: The untraceable ‘dark web’

Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the ‘dark web’ where you can shop for illegal goods, and where customers go by code

Viewpoint: The connected workforce

Google on technology that could change the way we

Blogger removal now ‘per country’

Blogger, Google’s blog platform, switches domains to make “per country” content removal

Comments on Zuckerberg letter

Decoding Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to

VIDEO: Facebook reveals ‘new information’

BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discusses what the public has learned about Facebook as a result of the company’s decision to sell

S Korea activist held over tweet

Amnesty International demands the release of a man held by South Korean authorities after re-tweeting a North Korean “propaganda”

AUDIO: ‘Great excitement’ at Facebook IPO

Tim Bajarin market analyst at Creative Strategies Inc in California gives the reaction from Silicon Valley as Facebook launches its plan to sell shares in the company for the first

Anti-piracy laws around the world

Comparing different approaches to anti-piracy

VIDEO: Facebook unveils plans to float

The world’s largest social networking site, Facebook, has announced plans for a stock market

How Facebook engineered success

How the social network strategised its way to Wall

Petitioners want ‘ethical iPhone’

An online petition calls on Apple to address growing concerns about the conditions of its Chinese factory

AUDIO: Sir Howard Stringer’s Sony legacy

Duncan Bartlett reports on Sir Howard Stringer’s legacy at Sony, as he steps down as head of the Japanese

Gov.uk opens for public testing

The public has been invited to test gov.uk – a new approach to access government services

AUDIO: TripAdvisor ‘is about common sense’

TripAdvisor’s Emma Shaw defends the website against criticisms from the Advertising Standards

VIDEO: TripAdvisor rapped over ‘trust’ claims

TripAdvisor has been ordered to rewrite some of its marketing claims by the UK’s Advertising Standards

VIDEO: How valuable is Facebook?

The world’s largest social networking site, Facebook, is expected to have its stock market launch with a value as high as $100bn being

Science decodes ‘internal voices’

Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in

Listening in for the healthy hum

Listening to bee colony hums to check their