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Google logo gets bouncy

Google logo celebrates search engine's 12th birthday and shows off programmers' skills with interactive 'bouncing balls'

For its 12th birthday, Google has shown off what its programmers can do with a few lines of code, in the latest of its long line of attention-getting "doodles": creating the logo on its homepage out of a set of bouncing "balls" that swirl around the page in modern browsers such as its own Chrome, Firefox, Apple's Safari and some versions of Opera – but not in older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (though the most recent version, IE8, does).

Google officially opened its doors – or rather door – 12 years ago in Menlo Park California. As the company history expl

BT launches 'free' Wi-Fi mobile app

BT Fon app allows Total Broadband customers with an iPhone or Android phone to connect to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot for free

BT has launched a mobile app for broadband customers that automatically connects their iPhone and Android mobiles to free, unlimited Wi-Fi.

The BT FON app, which is only available to BT Total Broadband customers, notifies users of the nearest Wi-Fi hot spots. Users then enter their BT internet email us

Mark Hurd in talks to join Oracle

Larry Ellison, Oracle chief executive, praised Hurd for restoring Hewlett-Packard to its former glory

Mark Hurd, who resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard a month ago following a sexual harassment and expenses scandal, is reported to be in talks to join Oracle's senior management.

Hurd, 53, abruptly quit as chairman and chief executive of HP following an investigation into

Facebook and Twitter user accounts hacked with 'free iPad' scams

Kirstie Allsopp among those affected as spammer exploits weaknesses in passwords and in Facebook code to try to tempt people to 'free' gadgets

A spammer has exploited a serious vulnerability in Facebook's photo upload system to spam both Facebook and Twitter with photos promising "free" iPads and iPhones.

The photos, which were posted to peoples' walls by exploiting a flaw in which it was not checked whether a photo could be posted to someone's profile, pretended to be from the profile owner and promoted schemes promising cheap or free gadgets - particularly iPhones and iPads.

Among those affected were a friend of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg - who responded, says the se

Test-driving the plug-in Prius: is this the future of greener motoring?

The plug-in Prius makes local journeys uber-green and ultra-cheap, and the only real drawback is boot space

Green cars are going to be bigger than renewable energy, we heard yesterday. HSBC reckons 8.65m electric vehicles and 9.23m plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles will be sold globally in 2020, up from around 5,000 and 657,000 respectively last year.

But what are these cars actually li