Four million pages of newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are made available online by the British Library.

Search tool YaCy aims to put users back in control of search by letting them run the searching software for themselves.

£100m is being made available to fund super-fast broadband in 10 UK cities, the chancellor announces.

A German patent owner has ordered HTC to halt sales of its devices in Germany, but the mobile phone maker says the claim is "invalid".

Scientists are questioning if using wi-fi on a laptop could harm a man's fertility, after lab work suggests ejaculated sperm can be damaged by exposure.

The United Nations Development Programme says it is investigating claims of a hacking attack by the group Teampoison.

Facebook agrees to tighten privacy controls as part of a settlement with the US regulator, the Federal Trade Commission.