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How do avatars have sex?
A couple have divorced after the wife saw the husband having online sex in the virtual world of Second Life. So how do avatars have sex?

Full-length MGM films on YouTube
YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full films and TV shows from the archives of the MGM studio.

Country profile: United States of America
Key facts, figures and dates

Don't have security nightmares
Is the widespread reports of insecure networks worrying people too much asks Bill Thompson

In conversation with... a computer program
Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into thinking it was human. The BBC's Mark Lobel catches him in more a relaxed moment.

Between a rock and an interface
Regular contributor Bill Thompson looks at what makes a good user interface

Google tweaks Chrome licence text
Google changes its licence agreement for its new browser after initially claiming rights to anything its users posted or sent.

Getting to grips with Linux
One punter offers his views on coming to grips with an alternative to Windows.

Feeling the heat of food security
Why reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social ills.

Timeline: Bill Gates and Microsoft
Bill Gates' life

University cheats 'not expelled'
University students who are caught submitting plagiarised work are very rarely expelled, shows a survey. Sean Coughlan reports.

Web 2.0 debates internet's future
Rounding up the week that was Web 2.0 by looking at the main themes and assessing what comes next

Stark warning for internet's future
A leading internet academic warns the future of the internet is at risk from closed and proprietorial systems.

E-Day: A good use of energy?
The recent Energy Saving Day did not affect the UK's electricity use as intended; does that mean such initiatives are a waste of time?

Who will write tomorrow's code?
We need to recruit more programmers, says Bill Thompson

China's battle to police the web
Web users in China are able to view the BBC News website for the first time. So how does the great firewall of China work?

Embracing the torrent of online video
Internet law professor Michael Geist applauds the recent use of BitTorrent by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Essay auctions 'harder to catch'
Students who cheat by commissioning work online from other students are worrying academics. Sean Coughlan reports.

Web desktop targets 'cybernomads'
A system which offers 'personal desktop' to 500 million who access the web every day via cybercafes

The battle against the botnet hordes
Security experts and law enforcement officers talk about efforts to tackle the rising number of botnets.