That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…

Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.

The opposite of NIL desperandum

Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…

'I've lost the ball again...'

Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautiful game, but their opponents will be clad in a new strip created by former Joy Division designer Peter Saville.…

Two police officers are suspended from driving duties after crashing a car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.

Do our long-term memories sharpen as we age?

A County Durham woman accused of murdering her two-year-old son appears in court and is remanded to a secure psychiatric hospital.

Director general denies he compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts.

Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is remanded on bail at the Old Bailey at his first court appearance on fraud and theft charges.

Andy Murray is in action against Dustin Brown at about 1920 BST on day five at Flushing Meadows, where defending women's champion Kim Clijsters is in fine form.

Nigel Farage says he will stand for the leadership of the UK Independence Party, a position he held until last year.

Evolution and management of the client computing environment

Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…

Joins BoA and Visa in trials

Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…

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Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming!

Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…

June and July not as bad as all that

The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.…

The BBC has denied that its director general compromised the BBC's independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of spending cuts.

Former politician Sir Cyril Smith has died at the age of 82.

A teenager pleads not guilty to murdering her 61-year-old father along with three other people.

Execution wins. Not ideas

Open...and Shut  Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…

A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.