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 the whistle-blowing website 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.

Community labs are springing up for people who want to hack and test new ideas.

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

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

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.