One of the first batch of Apple computers is sold at auction at Christie's in London for more than £130,000.

Two organisations, including a county council, become the first to be fined by the Information Commissioner for Data Protection Act breaches.

How the Israeli army is using Facebook to stop women from dodging military service.

Online music service Spotify is trying to raise funding for what it says are "ambitious growth plans", thought to include entry into the US.

European software giant SAP is ordered by a Californian court to pay US rival Oracle $1.3bn after losing a data theft case.

A computer hacker who accessed personal data and photographs in an e-mail scam from his mother's home is jailed.

Internet providers should create an "opt-in" system to prevent children accessing pornography, a Tory MP says.

China begins exporting rare earths to Japan after a two-month suspension following a territorial row.