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Kirsty Merriman, 17, is suffering from nightmares and trauma after being sexually abused by her step father.

She was devastated when jury set Stephen Lee Davies, 43, free from the rape charges on the ground that he suffers from sexomania and the accused was asleep and unaware of what he is doing, at the time of crime being committed.

Security agents have raised the house of the New York artist who hijacked computers in an Apple Store in order to collect pictures of the customers taking a look at the Apple devices in the retail store.

The artists, Kyle McDonald is believed to have installed software to photograph people looking at the laptops and then upload them into a website. McDonald alleges that he took the permission of the security guard to take pictures inside the store.

UK based telecom operator, Three has announced the launch of a dedicated channel with a third-party app store. The company has partnered with handset maker, Nokia a section on the new store called, ‘Three Likes.’

Customers of Nokia's Ovi Store will now be able to avoid the premium rate SMS service or third party financial service fees when they purchase apps on their mobile phones. The purchased apps will appear in their monthly bills.

BBC has announced the launch of its Audio Research Partnership, which is a joint initiative between BBC’s R&D operations and five of the UK’s leading universities to carry out audio and audio-visual research.

Smartphone maker, Research In Motion (RIM) might launch its Blackberry Touch 9900 smartphone in the UK in august.

According to online retailer, Play, the smartphone will be launched on the 12th of August at £519.99 as the retail price. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 will feature a physical keypad and a touch-screen display.

The smartphone runs on BlackBerry 7 operating system and is powered by a 1.2GHz processor. Meanwhile, Amazon has already placed the device up for pre-order with a launch date of the 15th of September.

Virgin Media has reduced the price of its TiVo box from £150 to just £100 and the company will also offer refunds to customers, who purchased the box at the earlier price.

The TiVo box, which was launched last year, is a triple-tuner PVR system that automatically records programmes, which it thinks is liked by the viewer based on their viewing habbits. The company will credit the Virgin accounts of customers who purchased the box at £150 with £50.