It says it all, really. Some poor kid in China has decided to sell an internal organ - surplus to requirements but STILL - to buy an iPad 2. The teenager had arranged the sale of his kidney on the internet, as is possible in China where blackmarket organ trading is flourishing. He or she…

This time it's the Sony Pictures internal database that has taken the fancy of hackers, if their claims are to be believed. The culprits call themselves LulzSec, and they say they have stolen personal information of 52,000 Sony customers after breaking into the website. It was not very long ago that Sony was at the…

He most certainly did not promise away 50% of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has argued to a New York court. This follows claims from one Paul Ceglia, who has presented an alleged contract and emails to support his story. Says the court documents filed on behalf of the Facebook founder: "Zuckerberg and Ceglia never discussed Facebook…

It's a fast-paced world, technology, and you'd think the rush to have the latest kit would make old mobiles redundant the moment you have a shiny new item in your hands. But not so much so, according to a study from Orange. 23% of people between 18 and 24 will hold on to their old…

Lawmakers in the state of Tennessee have passed a potentially significant new law, stating that it is illegal to share passwords to paid-for online services. The bill was promoted by the music industry, keen to find another way to stop music sharing. The law, the first of its kind, is awaiting a signature from the…

Augmented Reality - the ability to access relevant digital information in real time as we're walking down the street - is one of the hottest new areas of technology. Especially the music and advertising industries are excited about this, which is why we can now see music videos played from the backs of cereal boxes.…

The past six months has seen a 165% rise in the number of women being employed in the digital sector, according to a report from PeoplePerHour.com released today. 48% of these jobs were in the area of design and programming, with 10% of them being in database development. Web graphics and flash programming each represented…

As foretold by the grapevine, Twitter has started the rollout of a new photo-sharing service where users can post photos directly from the site. Until now they have had to do so through third-party applications such as Twitpic and Yfrog. Photo service Twitter confirmed the photo service on Wednesday, at the D9 conference in California.…

It's another one for the Star Trek crowd - a printer that makes 3D objects. We're one step close to that replicator, folks. It starts with keys. The information about the key's dimensions is fed into the printer, which carries a software programme for manufacturing solid objects. Out comes a fully functioning key - it's…

Technology is not only changing the way art is viewed and distributed, but also how art is being created. Touch-ups in Photoshop is only the very beginning of this, as artists are now starting to carve out new specialties in digital spaces such as virtual reality and holographics. The digitalisation of the creative realm is…