Google continues to power up. Literally. In December 2009 the internet giant filed a request with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a license to buy and sell energy on the wholesale markets. It was approved at the start of February.

Another week. Another botnet. But this time it was the world's largest - 13 million computers infected with spyware! Police in Spain have arrested three men saying they used it to steal banking details. Rather stupidly, the three men had no idea how widespread or powerful their botnet had become.

Firefox looks to be stalling. Launched in 2004, it has yet to breach the 25% popularity mark and has lost market share for the last three months in a row. Google's Chrome looks to be the big winner, increasing it's share to 5.61% at the expense of everybody else. The breakdown of the browser wars is as follows:

Has the Y2K bug struck late? Ten years and two month late? Or are we witnessing an early version of something out of iRobot - when a central computer goes on the blink affecting computer's (in the film's case, robots) everywhere? Sony is in deep do do at the moment. A bug on all it's consoles except the PlayStation 3 slim, had boxes worldwide on the blink with some refusing to even play games offline.