Security breach hits online world

Every player of Second Life has been asked to change the password they use to enter the popular online world.

The alert follows a security breach in which a malicious hacker broke into a database holding information about Second Life's 650,000 users.

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Switch off sought for TV treaty

Internet law professor Michael Geist warns about a an impending treaty that could change what we watch and how we watch it on TV.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation's Broadcast Treaty began several years ago as an initiative to address signal theft. It came out of broadcaster's concerns that the international legal framework did little to protect against the theft or misuse of their television and radio signals.

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Mobiles put the web in your hands

Even though a huge number of mobile phones in use can access the internet, and after the launch of faster third-generation (3G) data services, only 10% of Europeans actually use their handsets to go online.

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Snake arm robots slither forward

Increasingly, precise jobs, in difficult-to-reach or hazardous places, are done by robots. The army use them for bomb disposal and space agencies use them to explore distant planets.

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