Xbox console ban is 'permanent'
Thousands of gamers cut off from Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have to buy a new console to get back online, the firm says.
Strong signal
Europe's Galileo sat-nav system takes shape
Bing teams up with Wolfram Alpha
Microsoft joins forces with a web tool once hailed as a rival to Google to provide results for its search engine Bing.
Thousands still tune in to black and white televisions
Almost 30,000 people across the UK still tune into their favourite programmes on black and white television sets.
European PC shipments decline
Personal computer shipments in Western Europe between July and September fell slightly compared with a year earlier, a report says.
HP in deal to buy 3Com for $2.7bn
Hewlett-Packard announces it has agreed to buy network systems maker 3Com in a deal worth $2.7bn.
Modern Warfare 2 breaks UK record
Much-hyped video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes UK sales records on its first day of release.
Computer device 'helps' diabetics
A game has been released that helps young people with type 1 diabetes monitor their condition and check blood sugar levels.
New PC to encourage older users
A computer designed for people aged over 60 who have never used the internet before is launched.
Adobe lays off one in 10 workers
US software company Adobe Systems announces it is cutting 680 jobs, almost one in 10 of its workforce.
Modern Warfare 'set for record'
Analysts predict that first week sales of computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will break current records in the UK.
Social media challenges society
How social media challenges age-old social rules
Ofcom knocks back BBC DRM
Critics argue that a BBC request to offer copy protection on set-top boxes is 'DRM by the backdoor'.
Live UK football for iPhone users
Pay-TV provider BSkyB is to show live Premier League matches and other sports on Apple's iPhone for £6 a month.
Gaming call
Have you played the new Call of Duty game?
Games maker EA to cut 1,500 jobs
US video game maker Electronic Arts says it is cutting 1,500 jobs as quarterly losses widen to $391m.
Google snaps up mobile ad company
Google, the world's most popular search engine, agrees a deal to buy the mobile advertising firm AdMob for $750m.
Murdoch may block Google searches
Rupert Murdoch says he will try to block Google and Google News using news content from his firms on their search indexes.
'Road trains' get ready to roll along European roads
A sensor system that joins vehicles in 'platoons' so they travel close together is being researched with European cash.
UK surveillance plan to go ahead
The Home office says it will push ahead with plans to ask communications firms to monitor all internet use.