Amazon: 'Hey! Don't forget us!'

Google I/O  Google has provided limited access to an online storage service built atop its famously distributed online infrastructure.…

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'It's alive! It's alive!'

US researchers have fashioned the first self-replicating bacterial cell, "creating new life out of already existing life."…

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the government's decision to keep Britain out of the euro, during a meeting with the French President.

Steve backs 'not ready for primetime' claim

Google I/O  Steve Jobs has indicated that Apple is unlikely to embrace Google's newly-open sourced VP8 video codec.…

A 23-year-old man is to appear in court on Friday charged with raping a child in the Larne area earlier this week.

Cameron has issues to address on return visit

Legal offensive on click laundering

Microsoft has mounted a legal offensive against scams targeting its pay-per-click advertising services, filing two lawsuits that take aim at what it says is a sophisticated new form of the crime.…

A Baker sticks a wet finger in the air

The people of the Tennessee Valley who depend upon the eponymous hydroelectric plants for their electricity may soon start seeing brownouts when what looks like another petaflops-class Cray supercomputer is plunked down at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.…

An Italian man is charged with the murder of a Dorset woman found mutilated with someone else's cut hair in her hand.

Northern Ireland must play its part in tackling the UK's deficit, says Prime Minister David Cameron.

A tearful Lily Allen picks up three Ivor Novello songwriting awards, including best song for her number one single The Fear.

The Welsh Secretary says she is keeping an open mind on holding an autumn referendum on more powers for the assembly.

Chocolate Factory uncloaks web happy TV set-tops

Google I/O  The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled the long-expected Google TV, an Android-based settop platform designed to meld the web with your boob tube. The platform will eventually be open sourced, and the idea is to put it on myriad settops.…

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A Dorset coastal town has set up its own weather website amid claims that a "disastrous" Met Office forecast put off tourists.

Projection: 8 million in 2010

Apple's iPad may be selling nearly twice as well as the company's venerable Macintosh — despite Cupertino's admission that it's having a hard time meeting demand, and despite having to delay its international roll-out by a month.…

People accused of rape will be entitled to anonymity during trials, under plans in the UK coalition's programme for government.

Ballmer: self-corrections taken

Microsoft's floated a key component of its cloud-for-corporations platform, with a code drop of Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server 2010 beta.…

Former conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are to leave hospital after a successful operation to separate them.

A woman who called police to say she was about to blow up a Lancashire curry house is jailed for six months.

BA strikes look likely to go ahead after the Unite union wins its appeal against an injunction stopping cabin crew walkouts.