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Major publishers in online tie-up

Five of the world’s biggest publishers will launch a joint venture to regain control of content on online reading devices

Solar power of the future? It’s in the bag

A Welsh firm has spent five years perfecting organic fabric dyes that generate electric currents when exposed to light

Games of the Week

Stuart Andrews reviews Formula 1 2009 and James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game

Sunday Times gadget of the Week: Acer's 3D laptop

This is like the first fax machine: it’s bound to improve with time and as dedicated software and video material becomes available

Gadget of the week: BlackBerry Bold 9700

Bolder — and better — than ever before, the Blackberry edges ahead of the iPhone

The Times games of the week: Lego Indiana Jones 2; Invizimals; All Star Cheerleader 2; EA Sports Active More Workouts

Lego adventures with Indie; capturing critters; join the cheerleading squad; and get fit for Christmas

The 50 best console video games

Are you getting an Xbox, a PS3 or a Wii for Christmas? Perhaps it's a DS or a PSP? Don't set foot in a shop without our selection of 50 golden great...

Video preview: Red Dead Redemption

The new unicycle that will ‘change the world’

Honda’s ‘mechatronic’ U3-X performs a host of magic tricks — but with a maximum speed of 6mph it may be quicker to walk

£1.92m for diamond-encrusted iPhone

Ten months, 200 diamonds and 22-carat gold: what it took to make the world's most expensive mobile phone

Arrest over theft of RuneScape characters

The man is suspected of hacking into accounts for the web-based role playing game, which has more than ten million members

Gadget of the week: Sony Ericsson MH907

Games of the week: Assassin’s Creed 2; James Patterson: Women’s Murder Club — Games of Passion; Left 4 Dead 2

Take your revenge in Renaissance Florence; find out if the butler did it; and take on the undead

Gadget of the week: Gear 4 CRG200W

At last — no more fights over the iPhone charger

PlayStations will help sailors study at sea

Navy says consoles will enable technicians to read and listen to coursework and practise tests in confined quarters

The geek-free gadget guide for Christmas 2009

The problem with geeks bearing gifts is that no one else can work out how to use them. Here are our top ten easy-to-use gadgets and gizmos that will...

Playcast: the answer to the games industry's prayers?

Have a Beatles Christmas for a fab £1,000

Apple Corp is releasing a USB drive and a ‘Box of Vision’ set to go with its other must-have gifts for the die-hard fan

Video games on TV — and no need for a console

Playcast is to launch a TV service with superfast remote control that would do away with the need for a games console

World of Warcraft: fantasy or reality?

Five years since creation, game is blamed for divorce and death