Search giant Google has published its annual Zeitgeist - a look at what UK surfers searched for in 2011.

New rules mean journalists and legal commentators in England and Wales no longer have to ask permission to tweet, text or email from court.

China's internet censors block searches relating to an ongoing protest in a Guangdong village, and delete other web postings, web users say.

Claims that the costs of wind farms and other low-carbon technology will lead to sharp rises in fuel bills are wrong, government advisers say.

Statistics reveal a widening gulf between net use in the online-friendly north of Europe and the more web-averse south and east.

Some of the founding fathers of the modern web have signed a strongly-worded letter opposing US piracy laws.

English councils have until the end of February to apply for government cash to help them roll out "superfast" broadband services.

The search giant is awarded a US patent for a system that tells driverless cars when to take control of the wheel.