Facebook criticised over privacy

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

Art attack

Bill Thompson on mixing art and technology

Billions stolen in online robbery

Details emerge of why billions in virtual cash disappeared from a virtual bank in Eve Online.

Hybrid cars to make noise to help blind pedestrians

Japan considers adding noise-making devices to quiet hybrid cars to improve safety for blind pedestrians.

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.

Buy right

Brussels aims to help net shoppers

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.

CNET UK Podcast 142: What do you do about Internet obscenity?

This week Ian and Nate asked that most ancient of all questions: is it possible to 'clean up' the Internet and should we even try? It's a debate that's been sparked off by the decision that the author of 'Girls (scream) Aloud' didn't break obscenity laws with his close-to-the-bone work of fiction. With Nate a fan of Cannibal Corpse, it's not hard to guess what his opinion on censorship is -- but is there a solution for everyone else?

There was also the usual look at the week's news and events, we discussed the new universal phone-charger agreement, Twitter trademarking 'tweet' and the Palm Pre's imminent arrival in the UK.

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Twitter applies for 'tweet' trademark
Author of Girls (scream) Aloud cleared
EU standardise mobile phone chargers -- Apple on-board
The Pirate Bay sold to gaming cafe company

Science to the rescue! Can an iPhone 3GS burn us?

Apple's new iPhone 3GS is not only fast, it's reportedly ludicrously hot, capable of burning man and beast. So with the help of science, we tried to see if ours would generate similar issues

Nike Aero Sport Headphones review

Intended for use by fitness fanatics, the Aero Sport Headphones offer a secure fit and sleek, sweatproof design. They're also extremely easy to clean. Sound quality isn't their forte, so they're not the best headphones for day-to-day use, but they're a decent option for gym goers nonetheless

Photos: 30 years of the Sony Walkman

Three decades ago, as people hefted boom boxes off their shoulders, they oooh'ed and ahhhh'ed in fascination at a little machine called the Walkman

Ghost Pigeon hides your secret identity

During the day, we're mild-mannered tech bloggers, wearing glasses and looking moody in our vast, yet innocuous, Crave penthouse. But at night, we fight crime. We take on the persona of a creature of the night, black, terrible, shadowy -- we become the Ghost Pigeon.

To protect our loved ones, we have to keep our secret identity super-duper seekrit. That means hiding our calls and texts to the police commissioner, especially when we send him MMS messages with videos of us collaring a miscreant.

Luckily, just for people like us there's Ghost Pigeon software, a secret-phone-within-a-phone, which will hide your texts, MMS messages and calls.

Ghost Pigeon is invisible on the phone -- there's no icon in the menu. Instead, you launch the application by typing in a password. We installed Ghost Pigeon on our Nokia N95 8GB, and although it's visible in the list of installed apps, its name is well disguised.

Cooliris for iPhone: Sexying up image search

Give your Web surfing a little more pizzazz with Cooliris, which renders your image search results in a cool 3D effect -- it's damn fast, too

Chris Anderson's Free is first free audiobook on Spotify

Chris Anderson's controversial new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is not only a free download, but the first free audiobook on the popular streaming music service