The much-maligned digital cash Bitcoin is on course to revolutionise global trading in the same way email, MP3s and digital photography flipped lifestyles and industries on their head, supporters have claimed.

Ireland is to hold the first ever Bitcoin finance conference in July when promoters of the digital currency will discuss how it could change the world.

America’s intelligence chief has released more documents that tell how the National Security Agency was given the go-ahead to start collecting bulk phone and internet records in the hunt for al Qaida terrorists.

America’s National Security Agency reported its own breaches of surveillance rules to an intelligence court and repeatedly promised extra measures to prevent similar incidents, newly-declassified phone-tap files have revealed.

A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments’ requests.

The founder and three employees of the Megaupload file-sharing website have appeared in court in New Zealand after being arrested in police raids.

A US federal judge has sided with government lawyers investigating the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks and upheld a ruling that Twitter must turn over account information to prosecutors.

Wikileaks struggled to stay online today as authorities moved to cut its access to the internet.

JUST days after it was forced to tighten its privacy settings, social networking site Facebook is to do a U-turn on its policy of not having “panic buttons” on its web pages.

The US Justice Department has invoked the state secrets privilege in a bid to stop legal action over Bush-era wiretapping.

Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.

Google calls the latest change to its online maps Street View – but it is looking more like Candid Camera.

Google is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them.

A Norwegian hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple’s US iPod and iTunes music products and plans to licence his code to others.

THE movie industry is trying a new approach to stop people from downloading pirated copies of films over the internet it's asking them nicely.

The US music industry was today stepping up its fight against Internet piracy by threatening legal action against hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files online.