Chrome OS launches - but consumers have to wait

Google's Chrome OS has many problems to iron out before it rivals Windows 7

‘World’ iPhone could knock Blackberry off its perch

Is Apple aiming at Blackberry with its iPhone that can be used anywhere in the world

Web users would pay to read Clarkson & Brooker

But research shows that only a third of users would be happy to pay in the first place

Shitmydadsays faces hard slog from Twitter to TV

CBS will have to change the title so that it can become a family sitcom

Don’t panic, says Nasa, as 2012 theories spread

Nasa has dignified theories that the world will end in 2012 with a lengthy rebuttal

How China learned to fix the weather

Beijing snowfall was created by cloud-seeding to help solve water shortages

Family Guy proves too un-PC for Microsoft

Microsoft has cancelled an ill-judged tie-in with the animated sitcom

Twitter lynch mob goes for baboon killer AA Gill

But after Jan Moir, Twitterers are learning to use their power more responsibly

CIA reveals plans to monitor the internet

But the plans may be of little use against web-savvy criminals