After Google announced it is to withdraw its support for Google Wave, we look at 10 of the best technology flops of all time.

Amazon has launched a UK version of its Kindle store today which has the majority of British bestsellers on sale in ebook form.

The massive multiplayer online role-play game (MMORPG) Star Wars: The Old Republic is nearing completion. While the Canadian developer BioWare would not be drawn on an exact date, it said that spring 2011 "was not unrealistic".

Intel has developed a prototype computing technology that moves data at up to 50 gigabits per second with light beams.

Twitter, the social networking site which allows users to say something in up to 140 characters, sees its 20 billionth message sent.

Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.

The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released.

Police in the Philippines have arrested a suspect in the murder of nine people, including three foreigners. The suspect, Mark Dizon, was arrested in the northern city of San Fernando after being identified through his Facebook account, police said.

Microsoft has perhaps become entangled in BP's Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe thanks to an oil rig worker's claim that a computer used to monitor Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform crashed with a blue screen of death (BSOD).

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have seen several candidates for the heaviest elementary particle known to science.