- Free our data: A Guardian Technology campaign begins today. Our taxes fund the collection of public data for maps, tides and weather - yet we are obliged to pay again to access it. Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation, argue Charles Arthur and Michael Cross.
- File sharing? It's great business
Just months ago, the writing seemed to be on the wall for popular peer-to-peer technologies. How quickly things change. Bernhard Warner reports. - Ajax prepares for battle on the dark side
One of the newest web technologies has a sneaky power: it can access pages from your browser without you knowing about it. Quinn Norton reports. - BT brings faster broadband for free - but it may cost you
ISPs could decide to charge their customers extra for the faster services they will soon be able to provide. George Cole reports. - Techno world has MPs beat
Many MPs and peers still tend to log off from matters technological. Richard Sarson reports. - Meet the ancestors - online
Step changes in websites can happen almost unnoticed. Nowhere is this more true than in genealogy, says Victor Keegan. - E-government's shy family member takes centre stage
Michael Cross: Two years after posting a shop window on the web, HM Government has decided to start telling people about it. - Technobile
Less is so much more when it comes to games tutorials, camera angles and head-up displays, says Kate Bevan. - Don't let Hollywood be the arbiter of games movies
Last weekend, while the Fabulous got out their frocks and Jimmy Choos to prance up the red carpet, games movies were walking a different plank, says Aleks Krotoski. - Games
Toca Race Driver 3, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach and Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure - Read this week's letters
Send your letters, comments, questions and rants to tech@theguardian.com, and please include your address and post town. - Ask Jack
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- Newly asked questions:
- When can I buy an HD DVD player?
At the end of next month, but there's a catch ... - How does Google envisage the future?
According to a presentation to analysts, as "a world with infinite storage, bandwidth and CPU power". - Can you hack into a Mac in 30 minutes?
It depends. If you open enough of it up, then certainly.
- When can I buy an HD DVD player?
