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Listening to melting glaciers in Iceland and sending Beethoven to the moon, just some of the stories this week on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson

Are we heading for Web 3.0? We find out more from Beijing, and has new legislation forced companies to take better care of our personal information? All on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Mobile broadband comes of age, 3D digital antennas and digital copyright; are you downloading programmes that you shouldn’t? All on Digital Planet (downloaded legally) with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Could cloud computing replace personal computers? A new Brazilian crime website that is proving popular with the public but not the police and new cybercrime hotspots around the world. All on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Cosmic ray proof computer chips, digital diver tracking devices and magical computer technology in the home. All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Online election map to inform the outside world about possible breaches in the democratic process of Zimbabwe’s election. Ad hoc wireless networks could mean our cars talk to each other on the roads. Foolproof laptop encryption – can it be done? Political hacking – is it happening and can it be traced?
Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson spin your Digital Planet.

SMS messages get news into Zimbabwe ahead of Saturday's election; how AC Milan is using Microsoft's technology to get the best out of its soccer players; Chris Vallance reports from South by South West digital festival; and the rapidly developing field of "ambient intelligence".

Following Tibet's recent violence, how many hard facts are coming out of this inaccessible region via blogs and mobile phone footage? Do ‘brain-training’ games help school children concentrate in class? In light of Google’s takeover of DoubleClick Inc. how much should online advertising be legislated. And can low tech projects like ‘Question Box’ and ‘Hole in the Wall’ keep up with mesh networking in the developing world? Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson on Digital Planet

Mind-melding with your computer – how brain-computer interfaces can help totally paralysed people to surf the internet. IRLP and ham radio make for cheap global communication. And a gaming vest that really makes you roll with the punches. Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson on Digital Planet.

How safe is your encrypted data? Not very say experts. And will Google Android change the way we use our mobiles? Join Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson on this weeks Digital Planet to find out.

The latest version of Firefox to rival Explorer, real love to entice us into the gaming world and an Oscar winning performance from PIXAR. All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Iris recognition to stop photo theft, a lower powered mobile phone chip that could lead to standby times of weeks instead of days and a new cheap smartphone for $25 that could go on sale in developing countries in weeks. All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Malware attacks reach record levels, Digital Planet goes further south than it’s ever been before and we meet the first ever “Speedcabling” World Champion. All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Technology and Super Tuesday - why the US elections are not going digital, and the inventor of DNS - how would the web look without his simple design of internet addresses? All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Gareth gets to grips with the financial markets - we ask are computers really to blame for the recent highs and lows. And from the Australian outback an Aboriginal project that's turning our thinking about digital rights management on its head.

Are Apple going green and a new type of battery that lasts ten times longer than a conventional lithium one. All on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Not one, but two supercomputers, a website where Kenyans are recording violent attacks and protests and are we all Facebook guinea pigs? All on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

The latest from the world’s biggest gadget show - CES technology fair in Las Vegas, how Silicon Valley is not yet feeling the global credit crunch and 3G mobile phone dating. All this and more on Digital Planet with Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

A special look at the interface - how we actually engage with technology, including forty years of the mouse, keyboard free writing and interacting in collaborative virtual environments.

Delivering computers to developing countries, getting high speed internet access to remote villages in Thailand and 60 years of the transistor. A look back some of news from 2007 that Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson will be reviewing in Digital Planet.

In today's Digital Planet one of the pioneers who brought the internet to Africa, how Second Life is killing the video conference, and happy birthday Fortran, as the world's first high level language turns fifty.

Getting wireless communications up and running after natural disasters, escaping to the virtual work and using your voice as your password. Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson present Digital Planet – the BBC World Service weekly technology programme.

Catching criminals by their voice, 3000 floating computers in the world's oceans and using a picture instead of PIN or password. Just some of stories that Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson will be discussing in Digital Planet.

How the British Government database loss could have been prevented, getting laptops to children in Nigeria and broadband to schools in remote villages in Taiwan. All this and more on Digital Planet from the BBC World Service.