Bureaucratic nonsense of the government’s money-go-round
Free our data: Ministers have revealed a glimpse of the carousel of payments circulating between state bodies to fund the national output of public-sector information.
Starbucks stirred by fair trade film
Representative of Ethiopian farmers to meet Blair as movie on global coffee industry released.
Britain ‘beats US for problem borrowing’
Film maker tells Rupert Jones that UK firms peddle products they know are harmful.
The urbane spaceman
As a boy, Lester Waugh loved painting and later sang opera. Now he's building cutting-edge machines for a mission to Mars. Leo Benedictus meets a man of many passions.
Successor tells of hard job following Bill Gates
Web 2.0: The man who is taking over Bill Gates' day-to-day role at Microsoft admits that it is taking him a long time to build authority inside the company. By Bobbie Johnson in San Francisco.
BT buys anti-hacking firm Counterpane
9.30am: Acquisition of Californian company part of BT's strategy to expand its global professional services capabilities. By Fiona Walsh.
World’s largest banks join forces to stamp out child internet porn
· Proposed body will share information about sites· Paedophiles can have access to finance cut off
George and Dave’s Googlewhack adventure
Michael White: Tory conference cheered the man from Google but found zero results from a tax plans search.
Shock tactics in war of the consoles
Sony has announced it is to slash the price of its entry level PlayStation 3 console in Japan by 20%. By Justin McCurry.
Broadband firms given speed warning
8am: The advertising watchdog has ruled that companies marketing 8Mb broadband services will have to make clear that top speeds will 'vary significantly'. By Mark Sweney.
Advisers to Betonsports faced with legal action
As Betonsports faces meltdown, shareholders in the online gambling firm are considering taking legal action against the company's advisers. By Nick Mathiason.
Is it OK … to use a digital camera?
Leo Hickman: One of the camera industry's favourite ways to persuade us to keep investing in their new models is to make us feel inadequate about our megapixels.