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Net firms in music pirates deal
Six of the UK's biggest net providers sign up to a government plan to tackle illegal file-sharing.

'Neglect' of codebreakers' HQ
UK academics sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.

Payout for false Facebook profile
A businessman wins£22,000 in libel and breach of privacy after his personal details were printed on the Facebook website.

Manned spaceship design unveiled
The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.

MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme
Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.

Family lose Narnia web name fight
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

'Spying' requests exceed 500,000
More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data were made last year, a report says.

Sky launches net music service
The satellite TV firm teams up with Universal Music to offer downloads for a monthly fee.

Disappointing results from Yahoo
Yahoo reports an 18% fall in three month profits in a period when it was fighting off a bid from Microsoft.

Disappearing dialects make digital archive
An academic study of English dialects in Wales conducted over decades is digitised and donated to the British Library.