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Technology is proving to help some ship owners stay one step ahead of pirates.

The search is on for new chief executive of Yahoo, as co-founder Jerry Yang announces he is to stand down.

Jury selection begins in the trial of a US woman accused of using MySpace to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.

A grenade camera that can be thrown and send back images could soon be helping UK troops on the battlefield.

Three London hospitals are forced to shut down their systems because of a computer virus.

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The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs

LHC restart date now June at earliestRepairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m

OLPC The scheme will allow Europeans to purchase an XO laptop, the price of which will go towards sending an XO to a child in a developing country

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has called for testing and regulation of nanotechnology materials, to prevent possible damage to the environment and public health

At the Web 2.0 Summit, Paul Otellini showed off a number of internal prototypes and said that, despite the economic climate, a relentless pursuit of innovation is critical to the IT industry

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Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo may set the stage for another Microsoft offer, shareholders and analysts have said

Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned

The web company is pushing CloudFront as a high-speed, low-latency alternative to content-delivery-network rivals such as Akamai, while emphasising the service's lack of upfront costs

Mozilla has put out a road-map proposal for version 0.2 of Ubiquity that could bring its shortcut features outside the browser and onto the desktop

An 'on-demand indexing' feature now lets Site Search customers direct Google to index specific pages so they'll be available in search results within hours

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OpenSocial's growth as a development platform for social-networking apps means it has to work out where it stands with rivals and programmers

The space agency plans to use new software written using Bugzilla tools to track and analyse problems with the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo may set the stage for another Microsoft offer, shareholders and analysts have said

Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned

According to a listing on Amazon, UK customers will get the opportunity to take part in the OLPC scheme just in time for Christmas

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It happens to everyone. Now a spacewalking astronaut has misplaced her handbag.

A revolutionary brain implant which scientists claim will create reallife bionic men and women is being pioneered using the help of a British firm.

Newlook Xbox 360 platform is designed to appeal to families

A new USdeveloped Google application for the iPhone which allows users to search for information using voicerecognition has hit a stumbling block it does not understand British accents.

Cats have not suffered as much as dogs have by being domesticated says Steve Jones.