Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product called Instant that displays results as soon as users type in queries.

Intel is to launch its first chip with built-in graphics, while established phone chipmaker ARM releases a fast new chip.

A kind of "auto-tune for data" developed by a European team may help increase the capacities of long-haul fibre optic cables.

Premises across Europe, including a Swedish university, have been raided by police in a piracy crackdown

The UK's Information Commissioner has reprimanded ISP TalkTalk over recent unpublicised trials of its anti-malware system.

Sony has released a "minor" update for its PlayStation 3 that closes a loophole that allowed users to run pirated software.

Hewlett Packard files a lawsuit against its former head Mark Hurd to try and stop him joining database software maker Oracle.

Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks as the firms merge their infrastructure.

The developers behind the hotly anticipated Halo: Reach have taken another step aimed at cracking down on pirates.

Part of collapsed computer games firm Realtime Worlds has been bought by an anonymous American company, administrators confirm.