August

Surveillance:
An article on search engines’ accumulation, retention and use of personal data from searches (31stAug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm


Television:
NBC ends a deal with Apple’s iTunes after Apple refused to increase the price per TV episode download from $1.99 to $4.99 (31st Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6973511.stm


Internet:
Google’s Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries onto blogs containing weblinks to booby trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC (31st Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6970368.stm


Mobile Phones:
Nokia announce the launch of a new music and games download service (29th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6969174.stm


Internet:
Apple launches a video download service in the UK, available on iTunes (29th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6968291.stm


Security/Surveillance:
News about China’s plans to post virtual police officers on the net to monitor and combat ‘illicit activities’ (29th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6968195.stm


Future technology:
A person's entire life from birth to death could one day be recorded by a network of intelligent sensors, according to a senior scientist… (29th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6968591.stm


Future Technology:
An article about computers learning to play video games and the debates around the man-machine relationship it gives rise to (28th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6966460.stm


Internet:
New figures on the rise of internet access in the UK. The number of UK homes with access has risen by nearly a million in the last year. Some 15.2m UK households - 61% of homes - now have an internet connection, compared with 54% in 2006, research from National Statistics found (28th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6966632.stm


Internet/television:
Vint Cerf predicts the end of TV as we know it (27th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/27/news.google


Internet:
After the shooting of 11 year old Rhys Jones in Liverpool the press discover local gang videos on Youtube ‘glorifying violence’ (26th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2156546,00.html see also (24th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2155506,00.html


Internet:
An article on a Facebook campaign vs. HSBC bank over its student overdraft charges (25th Aug): http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/finance/story/0,,2155763,00.html within a few days of the issue gaining national press attention HSBC climbs down… (30th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6970570.stm


Internet:
An article on The Pirate bay website, directing users to film and TV downloads and its legal fight with the entertainment industry (25th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/25/piratebay


Mobile Phones:
Teenage hacker unlocks iPhone (25th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6963696.stm In another story a British firm’s plan to sell software that could open the iPhone to non-US networks has been halted by legal threats (28th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6966600.stm


Future:
Scientists develop technique to induce out-of0-the-body experiences, with possible future applications in gaming and VR (24th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/24/2


Print:
The Daily Mail becomes the second most popular online newspaper, after The Guardian with nearly 12m unique users (24th Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2155303,00.html


Internet:
An article on ‘the feminisation of the net’ (23rd Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2154494,00.html


Music:
On Music week plans to publish a weekly chart based upon the listening habits of the social networking site Last.fm (22nd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/22/1


Security:
US jobs website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen (21st Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6956349.stm See also (24th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6961880.stm and (23rd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/23/guardianweeklytechnologysection.security


Music:
Gbox is to launch as a download rival to iTunes. Universal and SonyBMB sign up and tracks will be DRM-free (21st Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6957098.stm


Surveillance:
Police use a remote-controlled spy drone to spy on the V festival (21st Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2153077,00.html


Future/War:
Robot wars are ‘a reality’, according to Noel Sharkey (18th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,2151357,00.html


Internet:
Russian police arrest a student for posting a video on the internet showing the execution-style killing by Neo-Nazis of two migrant workers (17th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2149484,00.html


Internet:
A blogger embarrasses Nasa scientists by exposing problems with their published climate data. Another example of citizen journalism and the long tail of the public who can ‘fact-check’ top-down authorities (16th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/16/1


Internet:
Google announces that DRM-protected videos bought from its online video store will no longer work and that customers will not be reimbursed. "We've seen a physical format device combo go out of manufacture before - wax cylinders, eight-tracks. But can you think of any consumer-purchased medium that actually becomes unusable while there are players that still work? Ouch," notes David Card of Jupiter Research’ (16th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/16/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it See also Cory Doctorow’s attack on DRM quoted in the article (14th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/comment.drm


Video Games:
An article about moral choice in video games (16th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/16/guardianweeklytechnologysection.games4


Security:
‘From fingerprints to visual DNA’ - An article about new technology being developed to identify copyrighted material to protect content owners (16th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/16/guardianweeklytechnologysection.google


Internet/Radio:
News stories about the state of radio in the UK and its current success. Regular listeners to digital-only stations have risen from 900 000 regular listeners in 2003 to 6m in 2007. In all 12m people are listening to digital radio and the medium as a whole is booming in the UK (16th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6948970.stm See also (17th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2150584,00.html and an article discussing the success of radio (24th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2155225,00.html


Internet:
An online tool called ‘Wikipedia Scanner’ reveals the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages. It apparently shows the edits that the US CIA have done to pages about Iran’s President and the Vatican have done to Gerry Adams’ page (15th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6947532.stm
See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6949153.stm


Music:
The owners of Russian website Allofmp3.com are acquitted of copyright offences in a Moscow court (15th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6948345.stm By 28th August they announce they are planning to re-launch: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6967172.stm


Internet:
A call to pull down the ‘walled gardens’ of social networking sites (15th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6944653.stm


Future Technology:
Scientists are working on tiny wind engines to cool computer chips (15th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6946042.stm


Music:
An article about new software to sort your music collection – again information glut means that our problem today isn’t information collection or storage but meaningful retrieval (14th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6946341.stm


Internet/Mobile Phones:
Mobile phone companies are looking to social networking sites as a way to share in the UGC boom and increase profits (14th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/socialnetworking.news


Internet/Music:
Claims of the first online symphonic concert (to be held in Second Life) (14th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2148065,00.html (Though ‘online’ concerts aren’t new as one of the earliest uses of the telephone network was as a means to broadcast live concerts…)


Internet:
Facebook’s code leaks onto the net, raising fears of fraud (13th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/13/internet


Future Technology:
An article on ‘smart clothes’ (13th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/13/sciencenews.news


Internet:
Google launches a new feature allowing people quoted in news stories to reply on the search engine’s news page – another example of the power of journalists to dictate a story being eroded (or the wisdom of journalists being eroded…) (13th Aug): http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2147328,00.html


Fiction/Theory:
Interview with William Gibson (12th Aug): http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,,2146989,00.html


Mobile Phones:
Footballer Frank Lampard launches his own mobile phone TV channel (10th Aug): http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2145942,00.html


Television:
Premium rate regulator ICTIS hands down its latest fines in the dispute over premium rate phone-in shows (10th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2145895,00.html


Music:
Universal to test selling songs without DRM (10th Aug): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6939807.stm


Internet:
10m people watch a new Youtube video showing a scene involving buffalo, lions and a crocodile called ‘Battle at Kruger’ (10th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2145733,00.html


Future Technology:
An article about teaching a human-sized robot the steps to a traditional dance in Japan (9th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/09/japan.dance


Television:
Virgin loses 40 000 viewers in its row with Sky TV in the three months to the end of June (9th Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2144551,00.html


Internet:
Virtual worlds for kids take off (9th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/09/guardianweeklytechnologysection.internet


Music:
Losses at Warners as music fans switch to downloads (8th Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2143678,00.html


Internet:
02 restricts its broadband coverage of the UK to keep costs under control (7th Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2143081,00.html


DVDs/Education:
Language DVDs can slow baby talk, parents warned (7th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/07/1


Internet:
The Number UK asks Facebook to close down a group in which ex-call centre workers for 118118 abuse the company and its customers (7th Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/07/1


Internet:
Government halts Facebook advertising after a clampdown on where its adverts appear (7th Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2143070,00.html


Mobile Phones:
Can football save mobile TV? (6th Aug): http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2142161,00.html


Internet:
Firms pull Facebook ads after they appear on BNP pages (3rd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2140702,00.html see also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6929161.stm


Music:
An article on CD and DVD audio technology and its problems in a market that ‘doesn’t care about sound’ (2nd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/02/guardianweeklytechnologysection.digitalmusic


Future Technology:
Pioneer brain implants allow a minimally conscious patient to eat, drink and talk (2nd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/02/3


Mobile Phones:
‘Television is a turn-off for mobile users’ (2nd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/02/guardianweeklytechnologysection.mobilephones


Television:
C4 axes their premium-rate phone-ins as the fallout from the phone-in scandal continues (2nd Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2139595,00.html


Television:
BSkyB buys Alan Sugar’s Amstrad firm for £125m, allowing BSkyB to bring one of its main set-top box suppliers in-house and speed up new product development (1st Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2138774,00.html


Music:
iTune user downloads three billionth song from the store: ‘Apple has sold more than 3bn download songs from its iTunes online music store, it said yesterday. The technology giant described the figure as an "incredible milestone". It comes less than 18 months after Apple sold its one billionth song on iTunes. The iTunes website now includes a catalogue of more than 5m songs plus 550 TV shows and 500 films. Apple publicised its one billionth iTunes download - Coldplay's Speed of Sound - in February last year. The iTunes online music store was launched in the US on April 28 2003 and in the UK on June 15 2004’ (1st Aug): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2138891,00.html


Music:
HMV buys some of Fopp’s stores after their collapse in July (1st Aug): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2138875,00.html