Hewlett-Packard cuts 27,000 jobs

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest computer maker, is to cut 27,000 jobs by end of 2014 as part of a drive to "simplify" the business.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 4:41pm

Jury backs Google in Oracle fight

Internet giant Google did not infringe patents belonging to software developer Oracle, a court in California has ruled.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 3:23pm

Google funds computer teaching

The search firm's chairman announces funds to place new computer science teachers in English schools.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 2:00pm

Google funds computer teaching

The search firm's chairman announces funds to place new computer science teachers in English schools.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 2:00pm

Facebook and banks face lawsuit

Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the banks leading its flotation are sued over claims that financial information was not disclosed.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 1:08pm

Diablo sets PC game launch record

Diablo 3's publisher says it has become the fastest-selling PC-based videogame despite launch glitches.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 12:47pm

4G disruption threatens millions

When 4G services start rolling out next year, two million homes will find it affects their TV signal, Freeview's boss warns.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 12:01pm

Big Picture: Mars rover late in the day

Mars rover snaps a picture of its winter home on a crater's edge  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 11:29am

123-Reg websites hit by attack

Businesses using 123-Reg's web hosting service go offline after reports of a DDoS attack from China.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 10:53am

Apple's Jonathan Ive is knighted

Jonathan Ive - the British designer behind Apple's iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - is knighted at Buckingham Palace.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 10:47am

VIDEO: Tributes to TV remote inventor

The inventor of the television remote control has died at the age of 96, his former employer has said.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 9:01am

Raspberry Pi's budget challengers

Two Asian Android-based micro-PCs offer users an alternative to the British-designed project.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 8:54am

Moshi Monster games go mobile

Mind Candy, the firm behind the Moshi Monsters social network, is going mobile, initially with games.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 7:53am

Google rejects porn block rules

During a debate hosted by Google, the search giant says that automatic porn filters are a mistake.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 7:44am

AUDIO: Inventor of remote control dies

A director at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers led the tributes for the inventor of the remote control  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 7:35am

VIDEO: i-Knight: Apple designer becomes Sir

The man responsible for designing some of the most popular Apple products has been knighted by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 7:13am

Nations need food security goals

The biggest environmental summit for a decade needs to deliver meaningful progress on global food security sustainable agriculture, say researchers.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 6:53am

Dell focuses on touchscreen PCs

The US computer maker hopes new Windows 8 touchscreen computers can turn around a slump in sales to consumers.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 6:14am

AUDIO: Tributes to 'extraordinary' remote control inventor

British inventor Trevor Bayliss and journalist Zoe Williams discuss how the remote control has affected our lives  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Today, 5:57am

The female scientist who took on a man's world

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she feels no bitterness over missing out on Nobel prize  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 5:15am

Chimpanzees behave 'like people'

Chimps and orangutans really do have "personalities like people", new research says  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 5:15am

Street lights 'changing ecology'

Researchers find that ground-dwelling invertebrates such as harvestmen and beetles preferentially live near street lights, even during the day.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Today, 3:55am

How can 1.2bn people be identified?

India's ultra-modern plan to ID a billion people  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 10:58pm

Lab grows heart muscle from skin

Scientists in Israel say they have managed to turn patients' own skin cells into heart muscle in the lab.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 9:55pm

Could a human body hide a bomb?

Could terrorists hide bombs inside the body?  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 8:28pm

Peru denies dolphin death claims

A Peruvian minister denies claims that explosions used in oil exploration are to blame for the deaths of hundreds of dolphins.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 8:00pm

VIDEO: Met Office: How to count pollen

How pollen is captured and counted for forecast  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 7:04pm

VIDEO: How do we stop lights going out?

Consumers could see an extra £105 per year on their bills by 2030, to help pay for a new generation of nuclear power stations and wind farms.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 5:49pm

TV remote control inventor dies

The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 4:23pm

TV remote control inventor dies

The inventor of the television remote control, Eugene Polley, dies of natural causes, aged 96, in a Chicago hospital.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 4:23pm

VIDEO: Nasa chief hails new era in space

The first ever commercial space cargo flight has left Cape Canaveral in Florida.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 3:05pm

VIDEO: How to move a 6,200 tonne building

A 6,200 tonne building is being moved 60 metres to make way for the expansion of a railway in Zurich.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 2:23pm

US firm creates 'robotic barista'

A coffee machine that can be powered by text message and print messages onto froth has been developed by a company in Seattle.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 2:08pm

Bacteria clean up fire aftermath

Bacteria bring life back to fire-damaged areas of the Mournes  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 1:06pm

VIDEO: Japan's radioactivity plaster filter

Researchers from Kinki university develop building material capable of absorbing caesium from radioactive contaminated water.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 12:52pm

Web address applications reopen

Icann restarts its application process for new top level domain names after being forced to suspend it in April.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 12:45pm

DNA to shed light on yeti claims

A UK-Swiss team is to use genetic testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to have come from "yetis" and "bigfoot".  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 11:57am

Parasite may aid cattle TB spread

The spread of an animal parasite across the UK may be hampering moves to curb cattle tuberculosis, research suggests.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 11:00am

Olympics launch Foursquare tie-up

A tie-up between the Olympic Games and Foursquare means users can now "check-in" at past and present Games landmarks.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 9:18am

Rewritable DNA memory shown off

Researchers demonstrate a means to use sections of DNA as rewritable "bits" to store data in living cells.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 9:01am

Microsoft opens up So.cl network

The search result sharing service allows members of the public to sign up and view each other's "collages of content".  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 8:54am

Web creator aids UK data institute

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, will co-direct a UK institute that will exploit data released by the government.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 8:17am

Virgin and BT in broadband row

Virgin is due to tell a Lords select committee that rival BT is being subsidised by government cash.  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 8:01am

Energy bill avoids carbon pledge

UK energy bill avoids pledge to banish coal and gas by the 2030s  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 6:43am

AUDIO: Racers rev-up for slot car fest

PM's Chris Vallance visits the UK Slot Car Festival 2012  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 6:32am

Backing for nuclear waste store

The search for a storage site for the UK's high-level nuclear waste is likely to go ahead in Cumbria after an opinion poll shows residents are in favour.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 5:43am

VIDEO: How to water a farm with a phone

Farmers in India use mobile phone technology to help ease their workload  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 3:34am

VIDEO: How to water a farm with a phone

Spencer Kelly reports on how farmers in India are using mobile phone technology to help ease their workload.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 3:34am

Stepping down from ARM Holdings

The chip designer's co-founder Tudor Brown on its past successes and future plans  Read more...

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition, Yesterday, 2:39am

Secret egrets nest for first time

Great white egrets are nesting in the UK for the first time at the Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve in Somerset.  Read more...

BBC News - Science & Environment, Yesterday, 2:38am