Robot cars, iPhone reviewed, Leopard security and more: today's Technology section

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This week's print edition of the Technology supplement is online too..

• Meet your new driver, the robot
  Hubertus Breuer reports from the California desert on a competition that was more about the software and algorithms of robot-controlled cars than their speed.
• How to turn one computer into many
  Charles Arthur and Andrew Brown: Virtualisation software, used to make hardware more efficient, is catching the eye of big business.
• Free Our Data: 192.com's founder raps 'pure greed' of data re-use system
  Michael Cross: Company's decade-long battle to win access to information emphasises need for change.
• Empire of Sports takes a 'web 3D' approach to online gaming
  A new MMO format may have found a way to create multiple revenue streams, says Kate Bevan.
• 'The FPS genre has never had more vitality'
  Alexander Gambotto-Burke: Developers are coming up with new takes on the classic shooter game genre.
• Downloading doesn't affect sales of CDs. Perhaps
  Jack Schofield: Peer-to-peer file-sharing tends to increase rather than decrease music buying, according to a study produced for Industry Canada by Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz of the Department of Management at Birkbeck, University of London.
• Why do people become so stingy once they're online?
  Andrew Brown: About a fifth of the whole population of the world's is online today - and there have never been so many people united by their extreme reluctance to pay for anything.
• Alien hordes approaching? It's time for a cup of tea
  Aleks Krotoski: My coverage of Brighton's Street Wars water gun tournament, in which I confessed that it rendered me immobile for three weeks, has resulted in an outpouring of support.
• We should praise successes of the NHS IT project
  Michael Cross: In spite of the grim headlines, across the NHS there's a sense that individuals in the service are still enthusiastic - passionate, even - about bringing healthcare in to the IT age.
• Social networks are the new cannibals
  Victor Keegan: Social network ideas are rapidly being taken up by other websites, with online banks like Zopa copying their characteristics.
• Newly Asked Questions
  • Is Apple's Leopard less secure than its predecessor, Tiger?
    In some ways yes, in others no. The latest big cat flavour of OS X unleashed last month was quickly poked and prodded by security experts keen to explore any weakness they could find.
  • Why has the growth in broadband adoption slowed?
    Because there are fewer dialup users to convert - and there's a hard core of households who don't have, and possibly don't want, internet access.
• Technophile
  Bobbie Johnson: The iPhone's technology is amazing, especially the touchscreen - but being locked to 02 is a worry.
• Ask Jack
  Mobile plus DAB | Keyboard problem | Sony hell | Digitising negatives | Backchat
• Newsbytes
  Downloaders are freeloaders | Business game | Virtual snooker hall | BlackBerry Pearl | Broadband for a tenner | Renegade gaming chair | Oprah on YouTube | Sketch on the phone
• Letters and blogs
  Real use of virtual worlds | Hear, hear | Message for the mass age | Size is everything | No oak grew from Acorn | If it ain't broke ...
• Games
  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | Hellgate London