Search goes on for way to tackle Google

Yahoo!'s shares suffered their biggest one-day fall on fears that delays to its new online search ad system would allow Google to increase its dominance among search engines. By Richard Wray.

Top of the Pops fragmented, the postcode mess, Windows XP’s genuine disadvantage, the Wikipedia cofounder speaks and much more

This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too..• What this generation's watchingAfter 42 years, the final Top of the Pops will be broadcast at the end of the month. Adam Webb explains why the show has become irrelevant in the digital world. • Who will address the postcode mess?The government's policy of encouraging state-owned bodies to use addresses as an asset to exploit has created confusion. Michael Cross reports. • Windows XP users put at a genuine disadvantageOne in five computers labelled as counterfeit are running legitimate operating systems. • Moral minefield awaits those in search of piratesThe software industry is unsettled by allegations that anti-piracy groups are overstepping ethical lines in their search for culprits. • Newly Asked Questions: • How much has Microsoft paid out in anti-trust fines?Want to have a go? My guess was "well north of $5bn," but Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a Microsoft local paper, has done the sums, and the score so far is $6.83bn (£3.7bn) and counting. • Who is Amanda Congdon, and should I care?Until last week she was the host of Rocketboom - a daily technology "videoblog" started on October 26 2004, which by this month was attracting up to 300,000 viewers each day for a five-minute show that brought in varying amounts of advertising revenue. •

The end of the death march

Microsoft is bloated, bureaucratic and bogged down by the Windows update. But just when it is time for a change of direction, Bill Gates is bowing out. Jack Schofield reports.

A truly moving experience

With a great line-up of launch games, Nintendo stole the show at last week's E3 games convention in Los Angeles. Steve Boxer reports on how Sony and Microsoft fell short while their rival blazed a new path.

Now even my Xbox 360 has a blog – all about me

Keith Stuart: Gamers, like film and TV viewers, are inveterate liars about the sorts of entertainment they enjoy. Videogames that no one will own up to playing top the charts, while titles everyone says they love, like the oddball Japanese adventure Katamari Damacy, fail to dent the top 20.

Microsoft buys in-game ad company

Microsoft is to acquire in-game advertising company Massive in a bid to dominate a market expected to be worth $1bn (£540m) by 2010. By Mark Sweney.