The BBC is launching a new easy-to-use service that lets you access television programmes via your PC. Initially, BBC iPlayer is offering "seven-day catch-up television" ¨C meaning that BBC TV programmes can be downloaded for free up to a week after transmission.

Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday it would buy U.S.-based photo-sharing social networking site Twango (http://www.twango.com/), but did not disclose the price.

A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday.

Cisco will purchase $150 million of VMware Class A common shares currently held by EMC Corporation, VMware's parent company, subject to customary regulatory and other closing conditions including Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) review.

Danaher will make a cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Tektronix for $38.00 per share. The aggregate purchase price is approximately $2.8 billion, including debt, transaction costs and net of cash acquired.

NEC and Aida Engineering have developed the world's first portable human DNA Analyzer, which integrates all steps of the DNA analysis process, from DNA extraction to electrophoresis and individual profiling.

Broadcom announced a new single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor that integrates all of the key 3G cellular and mobile technologies on an low power, single 65 nanometer CMOS die.

Discovery Communications, owned by Discovery Holding Co, said it has agreed to buy HowStuffWorks, www.howstuffworks.com, an online Web site that focuses on explanations of a range of topics for all ages, to build its digital media portfolio.

The stunning Nokia N95 8GB made its debut global shipments today, and will be hitting the stores soon. The Nokia N95 8GB is the memory-packed big brother of the Nokia N95 multimedia computer.

British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday.

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Internet telecoms group Skype, said on Tuesday that the business, bought by EBay, had not performed as well as anticipated in the short term.

For Real Networks' Rhapsody digital music service, there's no place like home.

Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, is considering joining a book-search project run by Google , once considered an arch-enemy by the paper publishing industry.

Legal digital downloads of music and video in Britain rose by 80.6 percent during the past year to 112 million pounds, researchers said on Friday.

Companies will spend a record $31 billion this year to advertise everything from toothpaste to home loans on the Internet, supporting countless news sites, social networks, video exchanges and blogs.

EBay's Skype is working with British cell phone service operator 3 to produce a handset that will allow users in Britain to make free calls on the Internet, a spokesman for the company said on Friday.

France will triple its number of video surveillance cameras by 2009, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Friday, adding the measure was necessary to fight terrorism and street crime.

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the telecommunications operators in Taiwan, will launch its Mobile WiMAX network from Nortel.

Dell On-Demand Desktop Streaming , a solution that provides tighter security, easier manageability and better reliability in desktop environments, was announced at the Gartner IT Expo.

Cutting-edge PC games are complex projects that require teams of programmers, artists and designers.

Amazon.com, unveiled a new customer knowledge center, Amazon High-Def 101 (www.amazon.com/hd101), which will help customers navigate the mountains of information available about the high-definition (HD) home entertainment marketplace.

Nokia slashed this week around 15 percent off from the price of its 3G phone model E65, one of the top sales and profit generators for the world's largest cellphone maker, market data showed on Friday.

Synectics Business Solutions, Inc., developer of the BackJack Online Backup Service, today released information surrounding its two upcoming offerings.

Comcast, the largest cable operator in the United States, and TiVo said on Thursday they have started rolling out TiVo- enabled Comcast digital video recorders in New England.

One of the world's biggest soccer clubs came to the world's fastest growing major economy on Tuesday when Arsenal managing director Keith Edelman launched a Chinese language Web site (arsenal.tom.com).