You can read the print section - but will it also be coming to an Amazon Kindle near you? (Only if you're in the US, for now.) We look at the prospects for the ebook reader, and also at Sky+ hackers, the coming crunch for broadband, gene mapping and lots more. Click through to see...
This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too..
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Paperback to the future
Amazon hopes its ebook reader will do for books what the iPod did for music. Danny Bradbury assesses this novel new device -
TV innovators who think inside the box
Anna Tobin: More and more frustrated viewers are souping up their TV recorders with extra storage space -
Cracking the case for a museum of computing
Jack Schofield: Experts want Bletchley Park, the home of the code-breaking Colossus, to become a National Museum of Computing -
Pay-per-kill shooters combine online gambling with gaming
Alastair Harper: Videogamers are now being paid to kill. At least, virtually. Over the past 12 months a series of over-18s servers have launched that pay a player for every kill they make, while putting a price on every death -
MP shows up problem of information 'ownership'
Charles Arthur: Free our data Delivery of crucial report on trading funds follows Parliamentary debate on the handling of PSI -
Next-gen smoke detectors could stop false alarms
Michael Pollitt: Thanks to research by Dr Tong Sun at City University London, a future generation of detectors may be able to distinguish overdone toast from a burning hearth rug -
Yes, even videogame fans can go to extremes
Gamesblog: Reading The Guide to Psycho Fan Behaviour reminded me a lot of the culture in the games industry, says Aleks Krotoski -
Google gives new gene mapping service a bit of spit and polish
Nick Carr: Just in time for Christmas, the Silicon Valley startup 23andMe - the name refers to the number of pairs of chromosomes in human DNA - has begun offering a personal genotyping service -
Vanity publishing is now more attractive
Victor Keegan: Self-publishing is freeing us today from the power of publishers -
Broadband suppliers face a crunch time too
Charles Arthur: The question of why - or even whether - broadband adoption has slowed as the pool of dialup users has shrunk has struck a chord with you, as evidenced by the letters we've received in the past couple of weeks - Newly Asked Questions
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Are happy days here again for the PC market?
It looks that way, from Hewlett-Packard's latest financial results, which showed sales up by 15% to $28.3bn (£13.7bn) - almost $1bn more than expected -
Technophile
Kate Bevan: The look and feel of the Sony VGN-UX1XN is spot on, but unfortunately it's incredibly fiddly to use -
Games
Super Mario Galaxy | Assassin's Creed | Sim City Societies -
YouChoose
What song goes with Halo 3? | Portable, if 22lbs is portable | And you have to buy books -
Newsbytes
Wind-up media player | Treeview TV? | XPS One | Secure mail for all | It's educational | More than OneCare | High-performance students | Dollar shopping -
Ask Jack
Chip choice | Bullguard or PC Guard? | Slow Virgin | Help with Linux -
Letters and blogs
Hangups with dialup | The great DAB-ate | Blinkered view | Medium is the massage
