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1. Asus stuns Computex with £100 laptop
Long before it was the reviewer's darling, the Asus Eee PC was already causing a stir on the PC Pro site. Our report from Computex of a £100 laptop, running Linux and weighing less than a hardback book, generated a lot of excitement among the tech community and swiftly made the story our biggest of the year.

2. Firefox:"We caught Microsoft asleep at the wheel"
With Firefox flying we caught up with Tristan Nitot president of Mozilla Europe, to get his thoughts on what had made the open-source browser so popular. In between lambasting Microsoft and explaining the secret of Firefox's success, he also gave us the low-down on the progress of Firefox 3. Clearly you liked what he had to say, because you made it our second biggest story of 2007.

3. BBC admits massive underestimate of Linux users
The BBC's attempt to palm off the Linux faithful with a stripped-down streaming version of the iPlayer might rank as one of the year's more unpopular moves, so when it subsequently claimed only 600 Linux users visited its site every week anyway, there were more than a few willing to argue the toss. As it turned out, the Beeb had gotten its figures ever-so slightly wrong, underestimating the true amount by around 97,000.

4. Facebook facing shutdown over "stolen code" claim
As the three-year court battle between Facebook and ConnectU drew to a close, news that a loss for Facebook could result in the site being shutdown had you clicking in droves. Facebook would ultimately triumph, with ConnectU failing to provide any evidence that its rival had stolen its code, leaving everyone free to poke, superpoke and ninja attack complete strangers at their leisure.

5. PC World offers free laptop with Orange broadband
When PC World announced it was giving away a

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free £300 laptop with Orange broadband packages it sounded too good to be true, and it was. However, by the time it took PC World to admit the free laptop was a limited offer and quietly drop the ad, we all had a nice time dreaming of free stuff and propelling this story to fifth place in our chart.

6. Evesham collapsed owing millions
While the convoluted collapse and rebirth of Evesham Technology captured your imagination this summer, it was the news that it had done so with bills of around £7 million that really stoked your interest. A quick root through the administrators' records revealed that the company had a list of creditors as long as your arm, including Microsoft, AMD and ViewSonic.

7. Secret flight sim found in Google Earth
Google has had an up and down year, but for all the headlines it created it was the revelation of a secret flight sim built into Google Earth that really caught your eye. Lingering questions over privacy and legislative wrangles over the DoubleClick acquisition may have been bigger deals for the company in 2007, but they didn't even scratch our top ten.

8. Police email reveals Ebay investigation shambles
A leaked email which revealed that crimes committed on Ebay totalling tens of thousands of pounds were being investigated by a solitary police constable understandably caused a lot of interest among our readers. Despite the sums of money and the best efforts of the constable involved, it seems the police still aren't coming to terms with the scale of e-crime, and the comments on the story indicates many of you agree.

9. My BT Vision of Hell
Our executive editor's travails switching from Sky to BT Vision - a transition marked by blackouts, power losses and frozen films - clearly found a sympathetic audience, propelling this tale of woe into our top ten stories of the year.

10. Band releases album on floppy disk
A blast from the past completes our round-up, with the floppy disk staging a mini-comeback. News that a band was to release its next album on a floppy disk, obviously tickled you and managed to ensure that the musicians in question ended up on a least one top ten this year.