Did laptops get as easy to borrow as a library book? Politicians love announcing new initiatives. In this new series we pluck a pledge from the archives. And see what happened next…   Picture the late 1990s, when internet start-up firms were on their way to becoming bigger than established...

Mr Raja Petra runs a website frequently critical of the government A prominent critic of the Malaysian government, blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, has been freed from jail on the orders of a judge. Mr Raja Petra, 58, editor of the website Malaysia Today, has been held without trial for eight weeks under a...

Obama expected to be first US Silicon Valley on Wednesday was looking forward to Barack Obama becoming a “tech president” that will champion Internet freedom and innovation. Obama’s history-making victory in the US presidential race not only gives the nation its first African-American...

Activision LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – It sure helps to have the “Guitar Hero” franchise. On Wednesday, two big video game companies reported quarterly earnings, with Activision Blizzard impressing investors while THQ depressed them. Activision Blizzard gave most of the credit to...

Force Field Might Shield Astronauts on Way to Mars British and Portuguese researchers may have solved one of the biggest problems facing interplanetary travel — how to get astronauts there and back without deadly solar radiation frying their DNA and setting off a cascade of cancers and related...