Lib Dems to oppose Mandelson copyright powers
News The party has come out against giving the business secretary the power to change existing law, while Tory peers want to amend other parts of the Digital Economy Bill [15:50 GMT]
Fusion Garage introduces the JooJoo cloud tablet
News Chief executive Chandra Rathakrishnan says the cloud-based, 12.1-inch JooJoo will retail for $499 and can boot within nine seconds [08:49 GMT]
Amazon CTO on the benefits of the cloud 
Video At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels broadly outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure [15:52 GMT]
IBM launches Tivoli Live Monitoring Services
News Tivoli Live Monitoring, a cloud computer offering designed to better monitor infrastructure, will reside on IBM's cloud platform [12:45 GMT]
Navteq to supply 3D map data to Microsoft
News The partnership will see Navteq deliver 3D map data for Microsoft's newly expanded online mapping services [11:36 GMT]
Most central gov't positive about IT capabilities
News A new study published by the Cabinet Office shows that central government organisations rate their IT capability at over 3.5, out of a possible 5.0 [09:18 GMT]
UK Border Agency taking online bookings
News The UK Border Agency has begun to take online bookings for appointments to seek leave to remain in the UK [09:03 GMT]
Google ties up with Twitter for real-time search
News A new section of Google's search results page will be dedicated to so-called 'real time' searches with automatically refreshed updates from sources such as Twitter [08:22 GMT]
Single European patent moves closer to fruition
News Intellectual property experts have praised the agreement on a single EU-wide patent scheme, but have warned that the issue of translation remains unresolved [07 Dec 2009]
Researchers break into BitLocker
News Unlike previous attacks against the Windows encryption, the technique developed by Fraunhofer SIT works even when a Trusted Platform Module is in use [07 Dec 2009]
Government to share more data in fraud fight
News The government has announced a set of measures to increase data-sharing and encourage people to use public-sector services online [07 Dec 2009]
Facebook forms safety advisory board
News The board consists of five internet safety organisations that will consult with the social-networking site [07 Dec 2009]
IDC: Enterprise storage shows signs of rebound
News Disk storage sales are up over the previous quarter across all market segments, while sales of storage software remain sluggish, according to IDC figures [07 Dec 2009]
BT to deliver fibre for BBC's new Manchester home
News The company will design, build and run the fibre-based network for Manchester's MediaCityUK business complex, whose tenants will include the BBC [07 Dec 2009]
Bing outage caused by testing error
News Microsoft says a change that was being tested was mistakenly moved onto the live site, causing Thursday night's sitewide outage [07 Dec 2009]
Google rolls out translated search option
News The search giant is aiming to lower language barriers by offering a native-language view of the web through translated search results [07 Dec 2009]
Canadian record industry faces $60bn copyright fine
Blog The Canadian record industry has been particularly active at pushing its agenda for more - and more implacable - laws against IP infringement. Perhaps they should be pushing for business model... [07 Dec 2009]
Intel drops plans for Larrabee GPU in 2010
News The many-core architecture will instead be used as a software development platform for the time being, the chipmaker said [07 Dec 2009]
NHS IT programme faces cutbacks
News Alistair Darling has announced that the National Programme for IT will be scaled back or cut completely [07 Dec 2009]
Google backtracks on EtherPad closure
Blog Following Google's acquisition on Friday of AppJet, the company behind the Etherpad collaborative online editor, Aaron Iba, ex-CEO of AppJet, has announced that contrary to the initial announcement... [07 Dec 2009]
Google offers customised search for all users
News Previously, Google would only alter search results based on search history for those signed into Google accounts. Now, it plans to do that for everyone [07 Dec 2009]
Apple snaps up music site LaLa
News Apple has confirmed its purchase of the streaming service, but declined to disclose the terms of the deal [07 Dec 2009]
Yahoo, Microsoft finalise search agreement
News The US government still needs to give its approval, but Yahoo and Microsoft have otherwise finalised their deal to install Microsoft as the search provider on Yahoo's sites [07 Dec 2009]
Google buys EtherPad online collaboration tool
News The search giant is bolstering its Google Wave project by acquiring AppJet, a smaller rival with an online collaboration service [07 Dec 2009]
Dell creates communications business unit
News Following its smartphone launch, Dell has set up a separate comms business unit to be combined with its small and medium business group [07 Dec 2009]
