A new GPS navigation system promises to deliver driving instructions in a more understandable, ‘human’ form. Natural Guidance is due to be unveiled by Navteq at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin today. The technology delivers navigational directions that reference landmarks such as shops and bars instead of simply referring to road names, delivering more [...]

This week Google's Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts while Facebook launched a tool to share users' locations. So does technology pose a threat to private life? Are you in a relationship? What are your political views? And where did you go for breakfast this morning? What would once have been details of our lives known only by those ...

Russia has threatened to block imports of GPS enabled mobile phones unless they are able to connect to its own satellite navigation system - known as GLONASS. The chief executive of oil-to-telecoms holding company Sistema, which is developing GLONASS, said the firm had held conversations about the technology with manufacturers such as Nokia, Siemens and Motorola.

Denmark will allow Australia to ship thousands of tonnes of toxic waste here to be disposed of since it does not have the technology to carry out the work, officials said Tuesday.

Technology can be used for good and for evil, so let's use it for good.