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The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, announces a deal to buy the security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn).

A novel use of encryption by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks could challenge legal systems for years to come, experts suggest.

The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data from Ofcom suggests.

An Ofcom reports show half our day is spent using media and older people are catching up on the young.

Why community laboratories called hackspaces are springing up around the world

Brazil's three main presidential candidates take part in the first online debate as they campaign for October's elections.

The social networking behemoth adds a feature that allows members to share their location with friends while on the move.

Inside the Gamescom video games fair in Germany

The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, often multi-tasking, Ofcom reports.

Nine people are arrested over a global scam which made millions of pounds by using fraudulently bought mobiles to call premium phone lines.

The electronics giant unveils two new models of its PlayStation 3 console at the Gamescom video games conference in Cologne.

Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net.

The Vietnamese government has responded to the internet boom with a new law obliging any place that provides public access to the internet to install monitoring software, this will enable the authorities to track who is doing what online.

A look at the future of the world's biggest search engine and the company's plans to take on Facebook and Farmville.

As Apple releases the source code to vintage program MacPaint, who can read it?

North Korea joins the micro-blogging site Twitter, following last month's launch of a North Korean YouTube channel.

Two US astronauts may become the first twins to be flying in space at the same time.

Vietnam struggles to tame the internet

Spain becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google Street View cars.

Pioneering Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds goes into administration.