BBC News - Technology

21 June 2012 Last updated at 13:05 GMT

MEP vote rejects piracy treaty

A key European committee has rejected Acta, which many see as the end of the road for the controversial anti-piracy treaty.

A Dutch court has ordered Apple to pay damages to rival Samsung Electronics for infringing a patent held by the South Korean firm.

Next week, troubled Habbo Hotel social network will begin to return to normality, says chief executive Paul LaFontaine

Making the most of being online

Fight viruses, defend the net How can the best security experts prevent the threat of global cyberwar?

Microsoft unveils Surface tablet Watch

The Windows maker's first venture into an own-brand family of tablets

E3: Is cloud gaming the future? Watch

A shift to the cloud might mean the end of video game discs and cartridges

Thinking machines

Turing's artificial intelligence test continues to inspire and divide researchers
The cult of TED

How did an elite ideas-sharing gathering go mainstream?
Lost in translation

How those annoying online security tests evolved
Creating computers

Does Alan Turing really deserve the title "father of computing"?
Disconnected divide Watch

Is it possible to escape poverty in the US without internet access?
Beneath the Surface

First impressions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 tablets
MIT + Harvard = edX

Is this the formula for a university revolution?

Click Watch

The website which reads your tweets aloud over music plus other sites and apps reviewed
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How farmers in India irrigate remote areas of land with the help of mobile phone technology