Estonia fines man for 'cyber war'

A 20-year-old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a "cyber war" against Estonia. Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (£830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip. The assault, between 25 April and 4 May 2007, was one of a series by hackers on Estonian institutions and businesses more...

Tesla Roadster to be a one-speed car

The engineers at Tesla Motors have designed a new single-speed transmission for its sports car that will let it hit the promised zero to 60 mph in four seconds. The transmission won't come out on the first Tesla Roadsters coming off the line, the company said in a press release. Those early production cars will have a two-speed transmission that will only let the car get to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds more...

Wii and DS drive Nintendo profits

Profits at video games giant Nintendo have soared, boosted by booming sales of the Wii games machine. Nintendo reported a third-quarter net profit of 126.5bn yen ($1.18bn, £604m), up 63% on last year. Nintendo's Wii outsold rival machines from Microsoft and Sony in 2007 and the company raised its sales forecast for the current financial year more...

Google and Publicis announce link-up

Google and Publicis Groupe, the owner of ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi, are working together on new advertising technology. This is the first such announcement that Google has made with one of the major advertising groups and shows that the company - labelled a "frenemy" by the WPP chief executive, Sir Martin Sorrell - is aiming to improve an often tense relationship with an agency world wary of its objectives more...

Police suspect internet link to suicides

Police in south Wales are investigating the possibility of an internet "suicide chain" after the apparent copycat deaths of seven young people over the past year. The latest victim, Natasha Randall, 17, was found dead at her family home in Blaengarw, near Bridgend last week. Two other teenage girls who knew her attempted to harm themselves the following day. Last night, one of them was still on a life support machine in hospital, while the second girl was discharged from hospital more...

UK homes to get super-fast fibre

The UK's first "fibre town" could go online in the autumn, delivering speeds of about 100Mbps (megabits per second) to consumers' homes. Fibre firm H20 provides super-fast broadband via the sewers and either Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee will be offered the service first more...

Britons' ID cards 'to be delayed'

Plans for a wider roll-out of identity cards to British nationals appear to have been delayed for two years. Foreign nationals will have ID cards this year and it was intended to introduce them in "significant volumes" for UK citizens from 2010 more...