A red faced student has been slapped with a €1,650 bill after using his mobile phone's data services to watch and download porn. The porn fan, hiding under the guise of "Jonathan Organ," got more than he bargained for when he opened up his phone bill from Irish mobile provider Meteor - to find the huge costs which had been racked up through data charges.

Software giant Microsoft has found a rootkit which is so nasty you will have to re-install your operating system to get rid of it. The Trojan "Popureb" digs so deeply into the system that not even the finest Volish spinners can dig it out. The only way to deal with it is to return Windows to its out-of-the-box configuration.

The Nexus Prime, previously known as the Nexus 3, is said to be the follow up to the excellent Google Nexus S. Google’s forthcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich device is also said to be manufacturered by Samsung, just like the Nexus S.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected 17 of 21 claims associated with one of the patents in Java that Oracle asserted Google had violated with Android. The patent in question is number 6192476, one of six Oracle says Google has stepped on.

The child wizard is going online, come October, in what author JK Rowling promises will be a collaborative creation experience, not just an online game with social media attached.

You'd think that if you were surrounded by police in a tense standoff, the last thing on your mind would be to post a Facebook status update of your ordeal. Then again, if you didn't think you'd make it out alive, letting your Facebook friends know how you were doing probably would make a sliver of sense.

hoi Hyun-Min loses all track of time when he sits down to play computer games, but the sessions usually last at least 10 hours. Choi (not his real name) is among hundreds of thousands officially considered to be Internet addicts in South Korea, one of the world's most wired nations.

Some people, including on this site, have suggested there’s a loophole in Apple’s new iCloud that will allow people who illegally download music to somehow “launder” their dirty music files, getting a nice clean, and legal, license to the music stored on iCloud

For the first time researchers have monitored the brain as it slips into unconsciousness. The new imaging method detects the waxing and waning of electrical activity in the brain moments after an anaesthetic injection is administered.

We hadn't seen Windows 8 until Wednesday, but most of us already had a decent idea of what to expect: a Windows/Windows Phone hybrid. It is exactly what we got and the reality is every bit as exciting and every bit as troubled as we had expected.