Mark Harris in Seattle

The company has just announced that it will be allowing users of its Sony Reader devices to download over a million free public domain titles from its ebookstore.

Fishy story from China has seafood catalysing bio fuel reactions

A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.

Updated Spot GPS Messenger is smaller, lighter, smarter

Illegal searches. Beatings. Solitary confinement. Not the latest Guantanamo Bay scandal but tactics used during the interrogation of a Chinese man suspected of leaking details of a new iPhone.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The Company posted revenue of over £5 billion and a net quarterly profit of £750 million

Firefox Add-on works with webmail and Facebook posts

And launches 'world's largest ebookstore' with 700,000 titles

Calls 20,000 lines of code a 'break from the ordinary'

Exclusive Sino-British aircraft company Yuneec has successfully test-flown the E430, the world's first electric two-seater plane, in Los Angeles.

New software allows systems to share information on digital attacks

Get ready for a wave of zombie mobile phones, as security company Symantec reveals the first SMS virus that can set up a full-scale bot-net.

Google reported net income for the second quarter of 2009 was $1.48 billion as compared to $1.25 billion in the second quarter of 2008. Revenues were up but paid clicks were down.

A UK firm is marking the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission by letting people send a free text message into space.

Scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found that playing active video games can be as effective for children as moderate exercise.

A revolutionary car designed by Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory allows blind people to get behind the steering wheel for the first time.

A new computer game designed by a researcher at Newcastle University could help to create CAPTCHA systems immune to attack from AI bots.

A research team at McMaster University, Canada have found a method for printing a toxin-detecting biosensor on paper using a FujiFilm Dimatix Materials Printer.

MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibres that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient 3D solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials.

IBM Research has developed software that more efficiently and effectively hides sensitive or personal information that might otherwise appear on the computer screens of unauthorised personnel.

Does North Korea have the resources to have mounted the ongoing cyber attacks on the US and its southern neighbour?

A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning.

Indian researchers have designed a neural network system that can remove noise and sharpen edges in digital images much more efficiently than current software.

Global household penetration of fixed broadband continues apace, with total subscribers on track to break the 500 million barrier next year, according to recent research from Futuresource Consulting.