Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK.

The Conservatives say they will make Britain the first country in Europe to have widespread super-fast broadband.

Phones transform healthcare in the developing world

The dawning age of the agricultural automatons

New skirmishes in war of Daily Mail v the internet