TECHNOLOGY

As Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday, we look back at some of the highlights of the last seven years.

Hackers associated with the Syrian Electronic Army have taken over several BBC Twitter accounts.

Boutique technology merchant bank founder says that Funding for Lending is not working and tech needs more capital

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has denied rumours that Chrome OS and Android are to merge, during an interview in New Delhi.

An animator has hacked Nintendo's original Legend of Zelda game to allow people to play as female character Zelda rather than male character, Link

British Airways announces UnGrounded, an 11-hour hackathon on a San Francisco to London flight to solve global problems.

Valve has launched its new Steam Early Access platform, which allows users to buy and play games that are still in development

Step-by-step guide to update Galaxy Note 10.1 N8000 to official Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with XXCMC3 firmware.

Step-by-step guide to install official Android 4.1.2 ZSLSE Jelly Bean update on Galaxy S2 I9100.

North Korea, China, hacktivists and script kiddies have all been blamed as officials and security researchers scramble to identify who crippled three South Korean banks and TV stations.

YouTube has more than one billion unique users every month as it approaches eighth birthday.

Evasi0n is finally dead, as Apple releases fix for four out of six security flaws used by jailbreak tool.

One day after NASA told a House committee that advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed to New York City, was to "pray", a group of scientists echoed those sentiments at a hearing.

A 15in touchscreen Windows 8 laptop for under £500. Is the Acer Aspire V5 Touch any good?

The Samsung Galaxy S4 arriving in the UK next month will have a quad-core processor and not Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa chip.

Microsoft will pay Windows 8 and Windows Phone developers $100 per application in 'Keep the Cash' offer until 30 June.

Leaked design documents suggest next Xbox, codenamed Durango, will be always be online and run games from hard drive rather than disc.

Step-by-step guide to root HTC One using SuperSU.

Pre-registrations for Samsung Galaxy S4 are four times higher than the Galaxy S3 according to one major retailer.

HTC One delays stem from camera component shortage and frequent changes to supplier orders.

Following the resignation of CEO John Riccitiello, EA's stock price has fallen sharply, marking the biggest slump for the company in ten months

Step-by-step instructions guide to jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 tethered on iPhone 4/iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch 4G using Redsn0w 0.9. 15b3.

BlackBerry brands reports of BlackBerry 10 being rejected by UK government for security reasons as "false and misleading."

A sophisticated network of zombie computers highlights the murky world of online advertising .

As the debate around games and gun violence gets louder, The Best Amendment takes a sideways look at both sides

The ZTE Blade 3 is an Android with a 4in screen, 1GHz processor and bargain SIM-free price of just £80.

A security reporter has identified a 20-year-old hacker as the person who sent a SWAT team to his house.

This week's mobile game is Year Walk, a terrifying, surreal puzzler from Simogo

Level 39, Europe's largest accelerator space for finance and retail technology startups, opens in Canary Wharf and it's already over-subscribed.