LA countdown to Jackson memorial
Fans and police are stationed outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles awaiting Michael Jackson's memorial concert.

Tennant joins St Trinian's film
Doctor Who star David Tennant and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding join the cast of the new St Trinian's film.

T in the Park safety advice given
Police warn T in the Park goers to prepare for all weathers, that illegal drugs will not be tolerated, and to look after their tickets.

Transformers hold on to top spot
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stays top of the US box office, raking in just over $42m (£26.2m) over the weekend.

Monkeys debut 'strange' single
Lead singer Alex Turner says Crying Lightning, the first single to be taken from forthcoming album Humbug, is "strange as far as a pop song goes".

Nigerian scoops African 'Booker'
Nigerian writer EC Osondu collects this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, winning $16,000.

Man scales plinth ahead of launch
A man scales Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth art project in Trafalgar Square, minutes before the event begins.

Ross cleared of 'homophobic slur'
Jonathan Ross did not break any rules with a remark which prompted complaints of homophobia, Ofcom rules.

Potter tribute to murdered actor
The cast and crew from the new Harry Potter film are to remember the murdered actor Rob Knox at the film's world premiere.

Tapestry returned to stately home
A tapestry is returned to a Norfolk stately home following a "rigorous" conservation programme.

Historic Bible pages put online
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been pieced together and made available on the internet.

Blackpool to stage Variety gala
Blackpool is picked to host this year's Royal Variety Performance, featuring Britain's Got Talent Winners Diversity.

Seth writing Suitable Boy sequel
Author Vikram Seth is to pen a sequel to his highly-praised 1,350-page epic A Suitable Boy.

Very Naughty Boys to play the Royal Albert Hall
The stars of Monty Python's Flying Circus - minus John Cleese - will appear in a one-off show in London to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary.

Take That 'will play more gigs'
With The Circus Live tour concluding at London's Wembley Stadium, Gary Barlow promises there will be more shows.

Prince jazz gala tickets sell out
Tickets for two Prince concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival are snapped up in eight minutes, organisers of the Swiss event say.

Kanye West debuts 'sci-fi' show
The American rap superstar closes London's urban Wireless festival by premiering his intriguing new stage show.

Beatles 'shark' Klein dies at 77
Ruthless music entrepreneur Allen Klein, blamed by many for contributing to The Beatles' demise, dies in New York at 77.

Harry Potter star 'had swine flu'
Actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, is recovering from a "mild bout" of swine flu, his publicist says.

Slumdog star moves home
One of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire moves from his Mumbai shanty dwelling into a new home.

Ritchie to make home greener
The British film director and former husband of pop star Madonna submits plans to make his £9m Wiltshire home "greener".

Carradine's death 'not suicide'
Actor David Carradine died of asphyxiation, according to a pathologist who oversaw an autopsy on behalf his family.

Tennis final draws 11.2m viewers
Roger Federer's epic win over Andy Roddick in the Wimbledon men's final draws a peak audience of 11.2m viewers.

Actress Liz Smith, 87, to retire
Former Royle Family actress Liz Smith reveals she is to planning to retire from acting after suffering a stroke.

Vatican Radio starts carrying ads
Vatican Radio - the voice of the Roman Catholic Church - starts airing commercials in a bid to raise revenue.

Big Brother gives Sree the boot
Sree Dasari is evicted from the Big Brother house as aspiring politician Halfwit survives the public vote for a fourth week.

Pop art
Former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire turns his back on music to air his largest art exhibit

Talking Shop
French duo doing the New Wave bossa nova

Top of the pops
The Afghan singing star working the London Tube

Satanic verses?
Why heavy metal fans struggle in Moroccan culture

On high
Spending an hour on a Trafalgar Square plinth

Bollywood hero
Actor Akshay Kumar on hit film Kambakkht Ishq

Na Na Na Na Nah
Why is the Man in the Mirror suddenly THE big Jackson hit

Phorm down 43% as BT goes on hold
Shares in the online ad firm Phorm have fallen after BT said it had no immediate plans to use the service that tracks online behaviour.

Jackson memorial sale crackdown
Those picked to attend Michael Jackson's memorial service are being prevented from selling their tickets online.

Digital champion targets the poor
Martha Lane Fox, the UK's digital Champion, plans to focus efforts on the six million Britons "at the bottom of the pile".

Twitter to give bushfire alerts
Australia is to use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to give people early warning of bushfires.

Billions stolen in online robbery
Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.

Mixed results for green IT goals
A majority of tech workers in the public sector do not know about the emission reduction targets they face, says a survey.

Facebook criticised over privacy
The social networking site comes under fire for planned changes to privacy settings.

Regulators eye Google book deal
US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.

MySpace 'suicide bully cleared'
A woman accused of "cyber-bullying" a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide sees her conviction provisionally thrown out.

Pages from the earliest surviving Christian Bible go online
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been pieced together and made available on the internet.

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Where will pirate radio go after digital switch-over?

Shout out
Robot patient takes the pain of the dentist's chair

Open wide
The best sites for geeks to visit as they globe trot

Hi-tech tourism
Will NHS patient records be stored online?

dot.life
High voltage sounds as geeks gather in London

Power trip
Free software is finding fans

Open source
Carphone Warehouse is to restart selling Vodafone mobile phone contracts, three years after Vodafone pulled the products.

Vodafone restarts Carphone deal
The number of people visiting Twitter has soared over the past year, according to an internet monitoring company.

Traffic rockets to Twitter site
New owners of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.

Cash for Pirate Bay file-sharers
A cap on the cost of sending a text message while abroad in the European Union comes into force for the first time.

Cost of texting abroad falls
The woman tried in the US's first federal cyber bullying case, which led to a teenager's suicide, faces sentencing.

Cyber bullying case sentence due
Technology will ensure that the office of the future is full of sensors that help workers be very productive, suggests a report.

Workplaces set to get 'smarter'
Chinese netizens denounce new filtering software

Anger over China web controls
China delays a plan requiring new computers to be equipped with internet filtering software.

China delays internet filter plan
The government's handling of ID cards is a "national embarrassment", says ex shadow home secretary David Davis.

ID scheme is an 'embarrassment'
Regular columnist Bill Thompson takes a look at the Digital Britain report

Engaging with the internet
A return to Venice for the Biennale art festival gives Bill Thompson a chance to reflect on digital art.

Of pixels and paintbrushes
Bill Thompson looks at the perils of wi-fi and babies

Can't connect, won't connect.
Bill Thompson on social networking 'scares'

How bad is Facebook for you?
Regular columnist Bill Thompson argues that people need to know more about programming and what programmes do

A nation of programmers?
The anger over an 'anti-counterfeiting' treaty

Battle over anti-counterfeit treaty
Best known for its code-cracking work, Bletchley Park also played a role in the origins of the computer age.

BBC Internet: More BBC HD
A technology that helps the modern world keep running celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 August.

Press Red: Building plans
The sixtieth anniversary of the birth of the first modern computer - known as Baby - is celebrated.

JournalismLabs: New BBC Weather site
The UK's role in the early days of the computer revolution have been overlooked, say conservationists.

Code-cracking and computers

Accelerating the modern age

One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth

The history of UK computing