Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares.

Article covering the appeals lodged by four developing nations against the ratification of OOXML as an ISO standard.

Article detailing MySpace's $234m damages win from spammers under the US CAN Spam law, but explaining how they have little chance of getting much, if any, of the cash.

Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of 'spam' e-mail adverts.

The Nigerian authorities declare war on the growing of number of fraudsters who use cyber cafes to send out phoney e-mails.

Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.

People are starting to use e-mail less because of spam, a study finds, though some click on unsolicited messages.

The most annoying spam purported to pass on to people free passwords for sex sites that usually levy a charge to look beyond the front page.

Protesters are turning the tables on government officials and businessmen who they say are making the web less pleasant to use.

A timeline providing an overview of the development of robots and computers. From 400 BC to 2001.