Urgent action is needed to tackle the "mountains" of e-waste building up in developing nations, says a UN report.
Huge amounts of old computers and discarded electronic goods are piling up in countries such as China, India and some Africa nations, it said.
India could see a 500% rise in the number of old computers dumped by 2020, found the survey of 11 nations.
Unless dealt with properly the waste could cause environmental damage and threaten public health, it said.
Developers have expressed anger at Apple's decision to ban some adult-themed applications from its iPhone.
Thousands of apps with adult-themed content have been removed from the store since Friday although some, such as one from Playboy, remain.
Apple has said that certain apps were removed following customer complaints.
A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online.
The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet.
She may be embroiled in what could be the year's first big literary scandal, but Helene Hegemann seems relatively relaxed. It's Tuesday afternoon of last week. That morning, the culture pages of all of Germany's major daily newspapers published stories about Hegemann's novel "Axolotl Roadkill," and now hundreds of e-mails have flooded her inbox. "I can't understand what all the fuss is about," Hegemann says.
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Brand Finance has published its 2010 Global 500 Survey of the world's most valuable brands. Here are the top ten, which include Britain's Vodafone and HSBC.
The US economy is still on target to grow strongly during 2010, but unemployment will remain high, the US Federal Reserve has warned.
In its latest forecast, the Fed said that the economy would expand between 2.8% and 3.5% in 2010, better than its previous estimate of 2.5% to 3.5%.
Yet the unemployment rate is expected to remain between 9.5% and 9.7% in 2010, easing to 8.2% to 8.5% next year.
President Barack Obama earlier admitted many in the US were "struggling".
