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West Wing creator to pen epic internet tale

Be afraid, be very afraid - Sony has asked West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to write a movie about how internet superphenomenon Facebook was spawned, and by way of research he's waded straight in with a group page down at the social networking website.…

Autumn debut

IFA LG's not going be left out of the Small, Cheap Computer arena - it'll be releasing its own would-be Eee beater, the 3G-integrated X110, in October.…

Olympic delay for iPlayer tweak

BBC engineers have solved a mysterious, long-running bug in the BT Home Hub that has meant iPlayer and live TV streams have frequently prompted the UK's most common router to reset itself.…

Pentagon hacker's final appeal

Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon is approaching his own D-Day, with his fate due to be sealed in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.…

Telly integration

IFA Panasonic today pledged to bring IPTV to the masses: it's going to build net-delivered video right into its HD TVs.…

British-built model gets full fat transmission

Tesla Motors, darling of the electric vehicle industry, has confirmed that it will produce a European "special edition" of the famous Roadster sports car. European buyers will be the first to get Roadsters with full-performance transmissions - early US cars now being delivered have "intermediate" lower-performance machinery which will need to be replaced.…

Interims disappoint

Computacenter shares are down more than seven per cent this morning after the firm reported a 14 per cent fall in profits in the first six months of the year.…

Our survey says...

Which?, the UK consumer organisation, has ranked the UK's most reliable laptops.…

Reunion bash planned

Some 400 staffers from that flag bearer of the 1980s UK home computing revolution, Acorn, are to gather next month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the firm's foundation.…

BT insists orders will be delivered

Online retailer Dabs.com has told customers to hang fire for a few days while orders due to be delivered by Amtrak are reassigned to another courier.…

To Guam and beyond

It looks like Google is prepping another underwater comms cable.…

Rent due again?

Suing communication providers over alleged patent infringements has worked pretty well for Judah Klausner.…

The semantics of force feedback

Microsoft and the force-feedback technology firm, Immersion, appear to have come to final terms after six years of suing each other.…

It's easy. Those tubes are busted

More evidence that the intertubes are fundamentally broken has been served up by Wired.com in an article laying out a technique to surreptitiously hijack huge chunks of the internet and monitor or even modify unencrypted traffic before it reaches its intended destination.…

Chinese Democracy, American Extremism

The FBI has arrested a 27-year-old American blogger for leaking some unreleased Guns N' Roses tunes to the internet.…

SQL tools plug gaps

What was seen as a major hole in Google's MapReduce database technology has been plugged, not once but twice. In the same week.…

German spies Phenom X2

Quite contrary to rumors AMD scrapped its plans to bring dual-core K10 parts to the market, the chip maker may have already begun selling the line to its partners on the sly.…

A road map for regulators of the future

Getting a head start on the world's antitrust regulators, an astute Finn is offering a bastardized version of Google's search engine that ignores sites served up by Google itself.…

Parlez-vous GoogleTalk? Er, no

Android developers have admitted that Google's mobile phone platform won't support GoogleTalk in its first version, and that Bluetooth support will be severely limited.…

Peterborough Attacks

A small British company developing a unique form of hovering aircraft says it will soon demonstrate a new and much more serious version of its technology.…