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• 22 December 2007

• How-Tos: How to cover your tracks online

  Online data thieves are usually portrayed as wily, anonymous hackers who use their cyberskills to crack into our bank accounts. But the most dangerous threats are often the ones we invite. How much information have you willingly volunteered online? The good news is: it's not too late to keep your disgruntled ex-friends and random nutters at bay.

• 21 December 2007

• News: Tesco to sell Dell PCs from next month

  Dell has sealed a deal with Tesco that will see its desktop PCs and laptops appear in the retail chain’s stores from January 2008.

• Opinion: Dell gets 'celebrities' to flog PCs

  Dell has come up with a, well, novel way of convincing your friends and family to chip in and buy you a brand new PC.

• Opinion: PSP can play PlayStation 1 games

  Sony's Portable PlayStation (PSP) can now play original PlayStation games after Sony gave PSP users an early Christmas present via an unheralded firmware update.

• News: VIDEO: MIT's bicycle-powered laptop

  Now you can get some excercise while checking your email with this pedal-powered laptop designed and created by students at MIT.

• News: Ofcom plans UK WiMax spectrum auction

  Potential WiMax operators have until January 16 to register for the UK's biggest-ever release of radio spectrum.

• News: Freezing MacBook keyboards fixed by Apple

  A recent Apple update has fixed keyboard lockups on Leopard-based MacBooks and MacBook Pros, according to users on Apple's support forums.

• News: Microsoft: Nintendo Wii faces troubled future

  The runaway success of the Nintendo Wii cannot continue, as third-party developers have yet to show they can make money on the consoles, according to Xbox-maker Microsoft.

• News: IBM targets Outlook with 'smart' email search

  IBM has created a free semantic email search engine aimed at users of the company's Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook.

• News: HP laptop hit by 'bricking' exploit

  A hacker who posted an exploit last week that threatened a large swath of HP's laptops has followed up with new attack code that can 'brick' nearly every HP laptop.

• News: 40-hour laptop batteries in development

  Battery technology being developed at Stanford University could eventually allow laptops to run for 40 hours between charges.

• News: Top 10 tech traumas of 2007

  From disappointing operating-system updates and social-networking scandals to high-definition wars and PC security nightmares, 2007 was full of disappointments.

• News: Video: The best gadgets of 2007

  Regardless of your views of iPhone, it's difficult to deny that Apple's handset is the most high-profile technology launch of 2007.

• 20 December 2007

• News: ThinkSecret site closes after Apple lawsuit

  Popular Apple rumour site Think Secret is to close as part of a settlement it reached with the Mac maker.

• News: New Firefox 3 beta available now

  The second beta of Firefox 3 has been released ahead of schedule.

• News: Apple faces 3G iPhone challenge in 2008

  The highly anticipated 3G iPhone will be with us in mid-2008, according to Apple analysts in the US.

• News: Honda shows tea-serving robot

  Honda's Asimo humanoid robot may be headed for a lifetime of domestic chores: engineers at the company have taught the robot how to serve tea to guests - and give a nice little bow when it's done.

• News: Google ads killed by Trojan horse

  A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.

• News: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo settle gambling charges

  Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5m to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the US Department of Justice has announced.

• News: Internet Explorer still king of browsers

  Mozilla's Firefox browser made its largest gain in web browser market share this year during November, although Internet Explorer (IE) continues to dominate the, according to Net Applications.

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