Nokia's spat with HTC over microphones thankfully won't affect sales of the awesome One for the time being. HTC's apparently free to use the HDR microphones it bought from STM electronics and to continue to sell HTC Ones with them already in until further notice, which is good, because HTC really needs the One to do well. Read More >>

Bonkers MP Gerorge Galloway has tabled a motion that would see Twitter banned in the UK, claiming the US-centric social site is "used for a variety of criminal activities including sending malicious communications." Read More >>

The European Parliament has decided against introducing any continent-wide blanket ban on internet porn, as a last-minute change in wording removed controversial porn outlawing concepts from gender equality legislation. Read More >>

The ongoing legal case between some of the UK's big ad-funded TV networks and streaming site TVCatchup has come its latest conclusion, with the European court of Justice ruling that any streaming services must get permission from the original broadcaster to redistribute their feeds. And that's very unlikely to be granted. Read More >>

The High Court has ordered our ISPs to start auto-blocking three more sites linked with piracy, as a new batch of torrent providers are made to sit with The Pirate Bay on the inaccessible step. Read More >>

As well as not really knowing when it's going to come out in most bits of the world, Sony also seems to be unsure of how to answer the tricky question of whether PS4 contains any form of system to block the playing and installation of pre-owned games. Read More >>

The lighthearted and/or massively sexist tradition of the Page 3 Girl might finally be on the way out, with octogenarian Twitter nutcase Rupert Murdoch claiming he's "considering" issuing the order to have his girls put them away for good. Read More >>

China, which banned dedicated video games machines in the year 2000 to protect the brains and minds of its little children, might be about to relent and lets its population play consoles again. The news led shares in Sony and Nintendo to explode upwards like a familiar old video game barrel. Read More >>

This weekend you will see something on TV that's been missing for long time -- a man enjoying a good long smoke. Only it's an e-cigarette nowadays. An iFag. Read More >>

A couple of slightly warped American teenagers came up with a fantastic plan to get around a family's late night internet ban -- drug the parents unconscious. Read More >>

The saga of the BPI's battle to get the Pirate Party to removes its Pirate Bay proxy link has taken a nasty turn, with the BPI threatening to hold individual members of the Pirate Party responsible for crimes against copyright. Read More >>

The British Phonographic Industry is turning up the heat on the Pirate Party over its continued hosting of a Pirate Bay proxy, and is said to be following up last week's friendly email with a more stern letter. What next? A explicit fax? Read More >>

The BPI has yielded to public pressure and common sense, issuing the order to allow UK ISPs to unblock entirely legal music promotion site The Promo Bay. Read More >>

There's a political party in Australia that calls itself the Sex Party. We are not sure what it stands for, but its members are rigid with fury with Google and Facebook for refusing to run their election adverts. Read More >>

Apple's recent flirtation with Bittorrent apps is over, with the iTunes administrators set to remove all trace of the few torrent controller apps that managed to sneak themselves past the company's famously strict approval process. Read More >>