The world's biggest mobile phone network, China Mobile, could soon offer its customers Apple's iPhone.

The Chinese carrier's chairman has confirmed the two firms are in talks.

Ahead of a nationwide deadline over regulating the use of cookies, the BBC has learned that the "majority" of the UK government's own websites will fail to comply in time.

All UK sites have been given until 26 May to make sure visitors are able to give "informed consent" over cookies.

Flipboard, the popular social news magazine, has started integrating audio into its app for Apple's hand-held devices.

The move makes it the first mobile reader of its kind to do so.

The popular US-based campaign site Change.org is opening a UK branch as part of a global roll-out.

The company offers individuals and organisations the chance to publicise petitions and sign up more supporters.

A man went to the stars and back to make his engagement one of a kind - by carving a meteorite rock into a ring for his loved one.

The now happily-married husband, known 'Laporkenstein', posted a photo catalogue on Reddit of his project to show how he took the Australian meteorite, smelted it down, and then shaped it into the unique engagement ring to pop the question.

Mark Zuckerberg will become one of the worlds' richest people, worth $17.6 billion (£10.8 billion) when Facebook floats on the stock market on May 18.

Zuckerberg, 27, will be worth more than technology rivals such as Microsoft's fiery CEO Steve Ballmer, who at 56 is twice Zuckerberg's age, according to official

Samsung last night unveiled its latest flagship device, the Galaxy S3, the follow-up to last year's best-selling phone in the world.

The smartphone market moves on once more, with the hi-tech voice-controlled Galaxy S3 likely to becomes a standard-bearer for Google’s Android operating

Young people are increasingly turning to virtual private networks (VPNs) to anonymise their free sharing of music and movies, a new study has found.

Sweden's Lund University found that there had been a 40% rise in the number of 15- to 25-year-olds using such services since 2009.

Apple's boss has dismissed the idea of mixing laptops and tablets into a hybrid product.

Chief executive Tim Cook said the idea of combining the iPad and MacBook Air would "wind up compromising" both.

Companies that do not do enough to keep their websites secure are to be named and shamed to help improve security.

The list of good and bad sites will be published regularly by the non-profit Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM).

The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012.

A sharp fall in construction output was behind the surprise contraction, the Office for National Statistics said.

The owner of a notorious "revenge porn" blog has closed the website, selling its domain to an anti-bullying group.

IsAnyoneUp.com had been encouraging people to send in intimate pictures of ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends for more than a year.

A cross-party parliamentary inquiry into how safe children are online has concluded the government and internet service providers need to do more.

It found that children were easily accessing pornography and websites showing extreme violence.

Scientists are pioneering the use of 3D printers to create drugs and other chemicals at the University of Glasgow.

Researchers have used a £1,250 system to create a range of organic compounds and inorganic clusters - some of which are used to create cancer treatments.

There are on average 14 tracking tools per webpage on the UK's most popular sites, according to a study.

Privacy solutions provider Truste suggests that means a user typically encounters up to 140 cookies and other trackers while browsing a single site.

The new net suffix application process has been thrown into disarray after the body in charge of the scheme was forced to take its computers offline.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said "a possible glitch" had allowed a limited number of users to view each other's details.

Apple has released a fresh Java update that it says removes the Flashback Trojan on infected Macintosh computers.

The malware installs itself if a user visits a malicious website, exposing the computer to control by hackers.

The European Commission is extending a probe into the spread of the internet.

The regulator says it expects an explosion in the number of household appliances and other devices connected to the net before 2020.

Organisations wishing to buy web addresses ending in their brand names have until the end of Thursday to submit applications.

For example, drinks giant Pepsi can apply for .pepsi, .gatorade or .tropicana as an alternative to existing suffixes such as .org or .com.

Apple has said it is developing a tool to "detect and remove" a Trojan that is said to have infected more than half a million Mac computers.

It said it is working with internet service providers (ISPs) to disrupt the command network being used by hackers to exploit the malware.