Nasa says it is developing a car-sized satellite that by "no later than 2018" will plunge into the sun's outer atmosphere for an up-close study of its super-hot corona.

The latest research by Unison Communications reveals that between 47-63 percent of government communication budgets are spent on cellphone communication.

Nasa is inviting the public to send their portraits into space aboard one of the two remaining space shuttle flights.

Google has resumed photographing France with its Street View bikes and cars, but without gathering fragments of personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems.

Argentina's government has ordered the closure one of the nation's three leading Internet providers.

Access to the Internet is as widespread in China, home to the world's largest online population, as it is in developed nations, according to a study.

What used to be a familiar dinner-time cry is being replaced by a bleep. Instead of calling out to let the family know the evening meal is ready to be served, many parents are simply sending a SMS.

Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and television more accessible, say they are being left behind on the web and many mobile devices.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her challenger Tony Abbott may not be "tech heads", but their starkly opposed views on a national broadband network are a key battleground in the election.

Britons spend almost half of their waking hours watching TV and using their cellphones or other communication devices but are paying less to do so, says media watchdog Ofcom.

The whistleblower website WikiLeaks will place several new servers with the Swedish Pirate Party, says the group which campaigns for more freedom on the Internet.

Mobile broadband currently accounts for only 10 percent of total mobile subscriptions but a rapidly increasing majority of the traffic, according to a survey.

Telkom says it is to increase the speed of its fastest Internet digital subscriber lines to"up to 10Mbps".

India may shut down Google and Skype Internet-based messaging services due to security concerns, the Financial Times has reported.

Venkatasubramani Lakshmanan is manager of the radio frequency sub-system for the Karoo Array Telescope project - popularly known as MeerKAT.

The majority of Americans do not favour making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority, according to a study.

The German government says that it will scrutinise Google's promise to respect privacy requests by letting people opt out of its "Street View" mapping system.

India may decide to temporarily shut down BlackBerry Messenger and email services if Research In Motion does not address security concerns, says a government official.

South Korean police have raided Google's Seoul office, the latest in a series of legal challenges the company is facing because of data collected by its controversial fleet of "Street View" cars.

Australia's opposition will scrap a $38-billion high-speed broadband network if it wins an August 21 election.