Supporters of Mr McKinnon have held protests in his name

UK MPs are calling for hacker Gary McKinnon to serve any sentence he receives in a British jail.

Mr McKinnon faces extradition to the US for breaking into American military networks between February 2001 and March 2002.

He trespassed on networks owned by Nasa, the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.

If tried and convicted in a US court, Mr McKinnon could face decades of jail time, and millions of dollars in fines.

EA posted a profits warning, despite a 40% rise in sales

Video game publishing giant Electronic Arts (EA) is to shed more than 500 jobs, after the firm announced lower than expected profits for the year.

Nearly 20% of its share value was wiped out after the profit warning, with its shares closing at $22.78.

EA said that higher development and marketing costs, as well as delays to the latest Harry Potter video game, were to blame.

However, this was offset by the success of titles such as Spore and NFL 09.

By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

Google was accused of censoring 2% of search results in China

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion.

The Global Network Initiative follows criticism that companies were assisting governments in countries like China to censor the Internet.

The guidelines seek to limit what data should be shared with authorities, in cases where free speech is an issue.

"This is an important first step," said Mike Posner of Human Rights First.

Laptops have become the most popular form of personal computer

Phone firms, chip makers and PC manufacturers are uniting to push mobile broadband on laptop computers.

The alliance will build wireless modules into laptops to make it much easier to use the gadgets on future high-speed services.

Laptops with the wireless chips built-in will bear a service mark which shows they will work with the third and fourth generation wireless technology.

The branded laptops should be on shop shelves in 91 nations by Christmas.

Given the obvious risks to health and the inability to escape from the consequences in China, which for those involve could very well lead to the death sentence, this whole issue has bugged me.

From previous knowledge I was aware that melamine is both used as binder for animal feed and as a fertilizer. So this lead me to Research another possible scenario where the trade surplus of Melamine in China was being being used in excessive amounts for these and other purposes.

Exclusive: R-Force's 13thHouR calls out ByteShield on their claims about their DRM.

Over the years we have reported the why’s and wherefores of DRM’s. So you could say that we have seen it all.  

Then along comes likes of BYTE|SHIELD, a DRM vendor who does something that even surprises us , they take the comments from Anti DRM guys and the BSA and try to create marketing spiel to end all Marketing Spiel.

Lets be sure what we are saying here, Byteshield is nothing new, it is just SecuROM and other DRM’s  remote system wrapped up in different Marketing Package....

A little break down of the Byteshield Marketing Spiel..........................

Google's new web browser is called Chrome

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.

"We realised... we needed to completely rethink the browser," said Google's Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News Website, Silicon Valley

Giving up some rights means you still have protection under the law

Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling protecting its use even though it is given away free.

The US federal appeals court move overturned a lower court decision involving free software used in model trains that a hobbyist put online.

The court has now said conditions of an agreement called the Artistic Licence were enforceable under copyright law.

"For non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important but this is huge," said Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig.

" In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licences set conditions on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the licence disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright infringer.

"This is a very important victory."