One of the founding principles of the internet is under scrutiny
Apple fixes 'drive-by' loophole
New firmware update for Apple's mobile operating system shuts out jailbreak users and removes potential security risk.
Vodafone backs down in Android row
Phone giant Vodafone has backed down in a row with customers over software updates for some Google Android handsets.
Full flash video on phones
Watching video on the vast majority of websites has become possible on a mass market phone.
'Digi-bike' aims to reduce crime
A four-wheeled contraption has been unveiled as a police force's latest device in the fight against crime.
'Whiteboard girl' hoax fools thousands on net
A series of photographs, allegedly from a woman quitting her post over her boss, have been exposed as an elaborate internet hoax.
Alien hunt
fantasy finally become reality
Has a 30-year quest to solve the Rubik's Cube ended?
A 30-year quest to find the fewest number of moves needed to solve any configuration of a Rubik's Cube may have ended.
Those six letters
How we all ended up using the Qwerty keyboard
How a fake phone app 'steals data'
Hi-tech criminals are turning their attention from pcs to smartphones, with malicious applications designed to steal saleable personal information.