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How one song managed to get a billion downloads
Who Runs Your World? Part 1
Who runs your technological world?
Who Runs Your World? Part 2
Who runs your world? Second in a series of programmes across the World Service
Medicine via the mobile
Telemedicine via the telephone
Faster tests for bird flu
The chip technology that claims to cut the cost of testing for viruses and bacteria
The car with an early-warning system
Cars that help us to drive more safely
Bill Gates
Bill Gates talks to the 成人快手
Tim O'Reilly and open source
Tim O'Reilly, one of the founding fathers of the open source software movement
Sony hits a bum note
Sony's anti-piracy software has ended up helping infect computers with viruses
One laptop per child
A report from the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia
Teaching the world - via satellite
A second report from the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia
Email encryption
A new encryption system that makes sure email only reaches its intended recipient
User generated content
Blogging and the big idea
One laptop per child - making it a reality
One laptop per child, risky or successful?
Review of the year - 2005
A look at the main technological developments of the last 12 months
Virtual world and gaming
A look at the virtual world versus the real world
CES Las Vegas 2006
A report from the greatest and largest consumer electronics show CES in Las Vegas
Apple opts for Intel
Apple's MacWorld Expo and the computer maker's decision to use Intel processors
Seeing stardust
he technology helping analyse interstella dust brought back by Nasa's stardust capsule
The challenge of getting online in New Orleans
Problems with internet access in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina
Charging for emails
Internet companies AOL and Yahoo introduce email charging for corporates
How polluting is computing?
A programme to mark World Service Energy Week
US tech giants accused of censorship collusion
Is cyberspace still an independent sovereign-free place?
Iranian blogging festival
A festival of blogging in Iran, which has been known to censor bloggers
Europrix Multimedia Awards 2006
A report from the Europrix Multimedia Awards in Austria
Technology unveiled at CeBIT
Computer dating for Siberian tigers, future technology and how to present it. Presenter: Gareth Mitchell.
Is digital equality possible?
An action plan to help end the digital divide?