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Virtual telescope opens night sky

Microsoft launches a free tool that allows amateur star-gazers to explore the universe from their computers.

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Google helps the web to go social

The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.

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Europe could get manned spaceship

EADS Astrium plans a variant of its space station truck, the ATV, that could fly European astronauts.

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XP boosted on budget PCs

Microsoft cuts the price of its XP operating system for use in the growing ultra low-cost laptop market.

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HP in $12.6bn challenge to IBM

Hewlett-Packard buys information technology provider EDS for $12.6bn in a bid to take on rival IBM.

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Frigid robot eyes top tech prize

A robot which cares for millions of frozen biological samples is among four finalists for a top engineering award.

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Hacker leaks Chilean records

A computer hacker in Chile posts confidential data belonging to six million people on the internet.

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Power healing

Bill Thompson on hi-tech ways to be greener

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Facebook users warned about ads

Credit companies are using the Facebook networking site to target young people, a debt charity warns.

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Alarm at Google Yahoo partnering

US advocacy groups urge regulators to block any deal Google and Yahoo might strike after a two-week experiment.

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Microsoft contests $1.4bn EU fine

Microsoft appeals against a $1.4bn fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.

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Facebook agrees child safety plan

Facebook agrees a deal to protect children on the site from sexual predators and cyber bullies.

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MySpace lets users share data

MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing.

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Google keen on better Yahoo ties

Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.

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Fake media file snares PC users

A booby-trapped media file is catching out tens of thousands of file-sharers, says a security firm.

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Luminaries look to the future web

Luminaries predict the shape of tomorrow's world wide web

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Xerox plans the future of today

The famed Xerox Parc labs invites the BBC to view the best of its latest crop of research projects

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Games straddle worlds

Two of the biggest games of the year - GTA IV and Wii Fit - have finally arrived and they could not be more different.

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The power of play on the internet

Game design and social networking are merging into one of the most persuasive forces on the net.

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Free game hopes to save gorillas

Campaigners hoping to save mountain gorillas are making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users.

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Stark warning for internet's future

A leading internet academic warns the future of the internet is at risk from closed and proprietorial systems.

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Making something from nothing

Bill Thompson on the implications of lax programming of Flash

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Falling out of love with robots

Humans may never be intimate with machines thinks Bill Thompson

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Who will write tomorrow's code?

We need to recruit more programmers, says Bill Thompson

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The offline cost of an online life

Bill Thompson wonders if his virtual presences are having a significant real world impact.

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How Twitter makes it real

Bill Thompson on how Twitter is beginning to be taken seriously.

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New Wii craze is opening up

Bill Thompson on how the Wii is controlling more than the games market these days.

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Why the future is in your hands

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

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Walking with the web

How mobile phones are set to become the gateway to the web

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Google bets on Android future

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

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Pupils reveal mobile snapshot

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

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