Inside Gadgets & Tech
Fury over 'shoot-to-kill' online Berlin Wall game
A computer game that casts players as guards who can shoot and kill people trying to flee across the former heavily fortified border between East and West Germany and the Berlin Wall has attracted a huge following and caused the internet server offering online versions to partially collapse.
- Amazon allows customers to lend e-books to just one friend
- Sony takes on LG with latest phone patent suit
- China shuts down 60,000 porn sites in 2010
- Professor unveils new twist on the humble escalator
- 'Net neutrality' rules to protect web competition
- Twitter to be allowed in courts
- Is Twitter really worth $3.7bn?
- Three in 'all you can eat' data package
- Nottingham Game City 2011 announced
The year of the split: How heartbreak went viral in 2010
High-profile couples head for the divorce courts every year. But 2010 was different, argues Liz Hoggard, because thanks to social media, nothing was private.