Dr Dark Energy' still thought to be plotting mischiefSad news for fans of the exciting new sport of ultra-violent hadron billiards today, as international science alliance CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider - most powerful particle-punisher ever built -

Bedwetters of the world uniteVirgin Group has launched a tech help service that will compete with the likes of DSGi's Tech Guys in the UK....

Claims Intel coerced vendors, rigged compilersUpdated The US Federal Trade Commission ruined Intel's Christmas by hitting the firm with wide ranging charges of anticompetitive business practices....

More free tomes, but Adobe still in the backgroundBorders has bought a stake in on-line book seller Kobo, which will take over the bookselling giant's eBook store and extend the service onto PDA phones too....

How do you say ne'er do wells in Esperanto?Scareware slingers have begun hiding links to rogue anti-virus sites behind Google Doodle....

But not until 2011Broadcom has hinted that 20Mp cameraphones able to record 1080p video could be available by 2011, following the release of its latest multimedia processor....

Back-ending Flash mediaAmazon Web Services, the cloud computing subsidiary of online retailer Amazon, today has put a media serving and caching front end on its Simple Storage Service (S3) storage cloud that lets it act as a distributed (as in

This is not the judgment he was looking forA trio of senior UK judges have rejected George Lucas' claims that a propmaker for the original Star Wars film had breached his copyright by selling Imperial stormtrooper outfits....

Freak ceasefire interrupts endless cannonade of cockupsComment It doesn't happen often, but just for once there's good news out of the Ministry of Defence - good news for British troops in combat overseas, and good news for British taxpayers too.

Not so vocal on China, lads?Google has criticised the Australian government's forthcoming mandatory ISP censorship system for targeting a "too wide" a range of content....

By servers and its arraysEMC has extended the data protection coverage of its DPA product by giving it the ability to monitor replication operations by servers and some EMC storage arrays....

Version 3.5.6 will patch your quiltMozilla has pushed out a cross-platform update for Firefox that fixes multiple security flaws....

No more, more, more litigation?Apple has finally secured a permanent injunction against Hackintosh thorn-in-the-side Psystar, apparently bringing over a year and a half of litigation to an end....

The future of smartphones?Consumers could soon interact with mobile phones in more advanced ways than mere button presses or finger swipes, if the concept Fuse phone is anything to go by....

Mam-flash Adventureland ad bannedThe Advertising Standards Authority has kicked into touch an online ad for Disney flick Adventureland, which encouraged Yahoo! users to whip off a woman's shirt with a click of the mouse....

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Redmond agrees to offer more choice to customersBrussels has ditched some of its antitrust action against Microsoft, after the software giant agreed to offer Windows customers a choice of web browsers via its operating system....

Souvenir-chuck reaction prompts censorship fearsItalian left-wingers claim a Facebook propaganda campaign has co-opted hundreds of thousands of users into groups supporting Silvio Berlusconi as he recuperates....

Clueless developer airs 32m user login IDsMillions of user passwords to social networking sites have been exposed, after a serious SQL injection flaw on the Rockyou.com website left login details - stored in plain text - up for grabs....

Introducing the novel concept of online self-regulationInternet-only publications are to face the same regulations as newspapers for the first time under an extension to the powers of newspaper industry self-regulator body the Press Complaints Commission (PCC)....