Company will use "protocol agnostic" controls to manage traffic.

Ah the irony. Battling the IE giant, Mozilla sets a "World record" event to publicise the new Firefox 3, only to see its servers swamped and downloads slow to a crawl.

'Switzerland' lets users probe for net neutrality.

Lovers will flood carriers with billions of messages.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

Founder kills off search engine project after disappointing takeup.

Post-Christmas spam decline fails to appear.

Documents rendered unreadable in the event of a breach or hardware theft.

Ruling says VoIP services have same access rights as phone providers.

Experts sound alarms over early disclosure.

Fake codec delivers Mac malware onto the alternative computing platform.

TV empire seeking more than $1bn over alleged copyright violations.

Site claims to pay users for submitting stories.

Barack Obama, Fox News and Britney Spears among the victims. Is anyone surprised?

Rupert Murdoch reportedly in talks with web giant.

Streaming media flaw used to push malware.

Exploit especially dangerous for Firefox users.

Company comes clean on retail site outage.

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing