Technology News

Google must answer trust concerns

The European Commission tells Google it has a "matter of weeks" to allay fears it is abusing its position as the world's dominant search engine....

SIM card to fight phone bullying

Parents will now be able to control their child's mobile phone thanks to a SIM card remotely managed from a computer....

China clears Google Motorola bid

Chinese regulators approve Google's $12.5bn purchase of US phone maker Motorola Mobility, the final hurdle for the deal to go through....

Facebook drops below float price

Shares in Facebook fall in early trading on Wall Street to below the initial price at which they were launched on Friday....

Yahoo agrees $7.1bn Alibaba deal

US internet company Yahoo says it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in China's biggest internet company Alibaba Group....

Apple and Samsung kick off talks

Apple and Samsung are holding two days of talks that will try to find a way to end the many legal rows between the rivals....

Pakistan restores Twitter access

Pakistani authorities restore access to the social media website Twitter after a brief ban for what officials called "offensive" content"....

Waterstones to sell Amazon Kindle

UK bookseller Waterstones plans to sell Amazon's Kindle e-book reader and other Kindle digital services....

Met Police to extract phone data

Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has learned....

Silicon trick for next-gen memory

Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip....

Facebook shares see modest debut

Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%....

Twitter backs web privacy effort

Micro-blogging service Twitter will support an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored....

Anonymous attacks Indian websites

Hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against government and political websites in India....

Computer game for stroke patients

Newcastle University helps to develop a computer game to help those who have suffered strokes....

Government to miss cookie cut-off

Most government websites will miss the UK's deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies, the Cabinet Office tells the BBC....

China Mobile in talks with Apple

China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could soon offer its customers Apple's iPhone....

Government may miss cloud targets

The Government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report suggests....

Japan launches S Korea satellite

Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, marking its entry into the launch business....

Facebook: How the others fared

A look at a selection of internet companies that previously floated on the US stock exchange...

Two patients get eye stem cells

Two people in Scotland have stem cells transplanted into their eyes as part of a clinical trial to restore their sight....

VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking?

An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them...

VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price?

Stopping websites from using tracking software could have serious consequences on the users themselves...

VIDEO: How to broadcast a torch relay

Covering a continuously moving object is no easy task and involves some new broadcasting ideas, as technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has been finding out....

VIDEO: Twitter banned in Pakistan

Pakistan's government has imposed a countrywide ban on the social media website Twitter....

VIDEO: Facebook founder's new status

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, updates his status on his own Facebook page to announce he has married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan....

VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut

Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38....

VIDEO: The low-cost tablets battling Apple

LJ Rich takes a look at the low-cost tablets battling Apple's dominance in India....

AUDIO: Taxman targets online traders

HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit....

VIDEO: Technology and texting tips for MPs

MPs have had their fingers burned by texting and technology, and may have regretted the odd text or tweet....

VIDEO: Electric unicycles and other tech news

Honda Motors unveils a new auto-balancing unicycle that can be controlled hands free - and other technology news stories....

Facebook: Living 'the hacker way'

Will Facebook keep innovating after flotation?...