By Michael FitzpatrickBBC News
You might be familiar with the heartbreak and frustration of a failed hard disk - fretting over the loss of precious pictures, irreplaceable files squirreled away over years, often lost forever.
These are depressingly regular losses often visited on those who do not make regular back-ups. According to one report by Swedish data [...]
Orange is teaming up with Universal and Channel 4 to offer a music streaming service which it hopes will help combat piracy.
Dubbed Monkey, the service is aimed at the young mobile customers who are less likely to have expensive handsets or mobile internet packages.
Users who top up their talk time by at least £10 [...]
A tenant who used the micro-blogging service Twitter to complain about mould in her Chicago apartment is being sued.
Horizon Group Management filed a lawsuit that has accused Amanda Bonnen of defaming the company with her tweet.
She sent out a message that said "Who said sleeping in a mouldy apartment was bad for you Horizon [...]
The world’s most high-profile file-sharing website the Pirate Bay faces a new volley of legal action.
Thirteen Hollywood production companies have filed a new lawsuit to try to get the website shut down.
In April the site’s founders were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to [...]
What do you think of Twitter’s front page makeover?
Virgin defends its broadband speed policy
A Swedish couple in search of the isle of Capri drove to Carpi, an industrial town in northern Italy, because they misspelt the name in their car’s GPS.
Italian officials say the couple asked at Carpi’s tourist office where they could find Capri’s famous Blue Grotto.
The car’s sat nav system had sent them 650km (400 [...]
By Jason PalmerScience and technology reporter, BBC News
A team of fire-fighting robots has been unveiled by defence contractor QinetiQ at a demonstration in London.
The display showcased a quartet of robots aimed at tackling the particular risk of fires involving cylinders of the industrial gas acetylene.
The robots range from a nimble, stair-climbing reconnaissance unit to [...]
A Briton fighting extradition to the US for hacking into top-secret computers claims he was morally justified in breaking the law.
Gary McKinnon, 43, from Wood Green, north London, admits hacking into 97 US government computers, including Nasa’s and Pentagon’s, during 2001 and 2002.
He told the BBC he was on a "moral crusade" to prove [...]
A Taiwanese firm which makes products for Apple in China is to pay a "condolence payment" to the family of an employee who committed suicide.
Sun Danyong killed himself after an iPhone prototype went missing from the company where he worked in Shenzhen.
The 25-year-old college graduate was suspected of stealing the prototype.
Foxconn will pay [...]