Laptops taken to the International Space Station were infected with a computer virus, Nasa confirms.

The Advertising Standards Authority calls an iPhone advert "misleading" for saying all of the web is available on the phone.

A human exoskeleton robotic suit is helping people paralysed from the waist down to stand, walk and climb stairs.

Tricky hack attacks could be thwarted by using trusted sites to police web use, say researchers.

Six international teams competed this weekend in the first-ever hydrogen-powered motorsport race.

Latest official figures show the number of UK households with internet access rose to 16.5 million this year.

A PC containing personal data of a million bank customers is sold on a net auction site for £35, according to the Daily Mail.

A UK-built solar-powered plane sets an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft.

The majority of election officials in England support a ban on the sale of voters' personal details to companies, a survey finds.

The popular online game is now unavailable in the UK after Mattel, the toy company that owns the rights to Scrabble outside North America, started legal action against its designers.

Bill Thompson has the future in his hand

Why crime maps may not make people feel safer

The chips which can power themselves

Machines may be about to outsmart humans

Intel reveals a way to power gadgets without wires

Will Brits ever be able to turn a buck from blogging?

Young US voters can now register to vote in the presidential election via Microsoft's gaming network.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith blames a private contractor for losing details of criminals held on a computer memory stick.

The South Pacific nation of Niue has distributed laptops from the One Laptop Per Child programme to all its school children.

Chip giant Intel signs a deal with Yahoo to make the TV set much more web aware.

A high-capacity PlayStation 3 and a new PlayStation Portable have been unveiled by Sony at the Leipzig games conference.

Hiding what users do online might get easier as Microsoft plans a "privacy mode" for the next release of Internet Explorer.

Details have emerged of the processor family that Intel will be using in servers, desktops and laptops from 2009.

Nearly half a million people in developing countries earn virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study shows.

Latest technology to help troops on the battlefield

Supporters of open source software are claiming victory after a US court ruled copyright protection applies to their work.

How UK team won the Championship Gaming Series.

The technology that keeps the net running turns 40

How secure are your credit and debit card details?

Recordings made by a British pioneer of stereo sound have been restored so they can be heard for the first time.

Gestural interfaces could spell the end for the humble computer mouse says analyst company Gartner.

Wall-climbing robots have been developed by scientists in America using the same principles behind electrostatics that make balloons stick to ceilings after being rubbed.

How gamers may soon be able to race against top F1 drivers in real time from the comfort of their living room.

Bill Thompson is worried that the methods we are using to keep kids safe on mobiles have stopped being useful.

Bill Thompson is keeping an eye on the Olympics but isn't interested in medal winners

Regular columnist Bill Thompson says the virtual world still needs a lot of work if it is to replace the real world.

Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders about the punishment that should be meted out to copyright infringers.

Bill Thompson on the end of the Bill Gates era

Bill Thompson asks if the web changes how we think

The humble mobile phone looks set to become a multimedia, multi-function monster as more features are crammed inside it.

Developers are being urged to unleash their creativity and make the mobile future a reality and bring the world to everyone's phone.

Google's director of mobile platforms explains his vision for Android, a new operating system for mobiles.

Students at a school in Tynemouth carry out a survey of mobile phone use as apart of the BBC's School Report project.

A look at the future computing technologies which will go beyond Moore's Law.

A look at some of the technologies that could allow the silicon industry to deliver faster, cheaper chips.

A look inside the surreal and ultra-clean world of the silicon manufacturing plant.

BBC News interviews Gordon Moore, the man whose "law" has driven the computer revolution.