 | HP sues Hurd over new Oracle job |
| Computer maker Hewlett Packard (HP) has filed a lawsuit against its former head Mark Hurd in an attempt to stop him joining database software maker Oracle. |
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| TalkTalk rapped for trial silence |
| The UK's Information Commissioner has reprimanded ISP TalkTalk over recent unpublicised trials of its anti-malware system. |
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| Hacking handsets |
| How do you go about getting at data on a mobile? |
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| Oracle hires HP's ex chief exec |
| Tech stars join forces as Oracle's Larry Ellison brings in former HP boss Mark Hurd to replace Charles Phillips. |
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| India cashes in on smartphone apps |
| As smart phones become more popular across India, the demand for apps is growing. |
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| PS3 update blocks hardware hack |
| Sony has released a "minor" update for its PlayStation 3 that closes a loophole that allowed users to run pirated software. |
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| Pirate gamers face more sanctions |
| The developers behind the hotly anticipated Halo: Reach have taken another step aimed at cracking down on pirates. |
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| Manx on the moon? |
| Astronomer Dr David Whitehouse and Tim Craine discuss why the Isle of Man is interested in space exploration. |
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| US firm buys Realtime Worlds game |
| Part of collapsed computer games firm Realtime Worlds has been bought by an anonymous American company, administrators confirm. |
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| UK mobile firms to merge networks |
| Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks as the firms merge their networks. |
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| Gamers' 13-year wait nearly over as Duke Nukem Forever gets a release date |
| Almost 13 years after it was first announced, video game Duke Nukem Forever has finally been given a release date by its new owners. |
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| Buzz lawsuit to cost Google $8.5m |
| Google proposes settling a lawsuit over its Buzz social network, whilst regulators launch a review of the firm's US search practices. |
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| Brilliant ideas |
| The secrets behind some of the UK’s newest inventions |
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| Tiny solar cells fix themselves |
| A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells. |
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| Craigslist ends adult service ads |
| Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups. |
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| Power play |
| Turning 16 games consoles into a number-crunching supercomputer |
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| Making music from children's old toys |
| The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments. |
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| Tackling technical troubles |
| Reporting on technology while battling with technology |
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| What does the future hold for television? |
| Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs. |
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| PS3 hack escapes court challenge |
| Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web. |
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| Data dilema: Privacy or personalisation? |
| Ian Hardy discovers how top researchers and companies are using today's devices and data to make the world a more interesting place |
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| Remote control |
| How the tech savvy help victims cope in a crisis via the web |
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| New gadgets unveiled at IFA fair |
| Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 are amongst the gadgets showcased at the world's largest consumer electronics fair in Berlin. |
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| Portable video 'is the future' |
| Toshiba’s UK business manager says its Foilo 100 tablet PC complements trends in media usage. |
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| Tablet PCs take on the iPad |
| Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 are among rivals unveiled at the Berlin gadget exhibition. |
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| Royal Mail puts first 'intelligent' stamp on sale |
| The Royal Mail launches the world's first "intelligent" stamp, the first to work with image recognition technology. |
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| How does Samsung's Galaxy Tab compare? |
| Tablet computers to rival Apple's iPad are creating a stir as one of Europe's largest technology shows, the IFA, gets under way in Berlin. |
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| Dell pulls out of battle for 3Par |
| Dell withdraws its bid for 3Par after rival Hewlett-Packard raises its offer for the data storage company to $2.1bn. |
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| Memristor revolution backed by HP |
| A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. |
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| Global broadband divide revealed |
| The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures. |
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| Samsung releases iPad competitor |
| Samsung has become the latest manufacturer to enter into the tablet computer market with its Galaxy Tab. |
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| US seeks input on net data rules |
| US net users are being asked for their opinions about what ISPs should be allowed to do with web traffic flowing through their networks. |
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| Apple launches MySpace challenger |
| Apple launches a music-based social network called Ping as part of its latest upgrade to the iTunes music software. |
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| Sony rolls out rival to iTunes |
| Sony has unveiled its own music and video download service in an announcement timed to coincide with an Apple media event. |
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| Roaming iPhone glitch continues |
| Mobile operator O2 and Apple are still resolving a months-old data roaming issue, with customers complaining of charges they didn't incur. |
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| Rival benefits from Digg revamp |
| A revamp of the social-news site Digg has unexpectedly backfired on its owners after members redirected traffic to a rival site. |
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| Advertising watchdog moves online |
| The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is extending its remit to cover the online realm. |
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| Wikileaks rape inquiry reopened |
| Sweden's director of public prosecutions orders the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. |
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| Clicking the blue 'e' |
| Bill Thompson on Microsoft's game-changing browser |
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| Motion control |
| The PlayStation Move controller put on test |
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| Orange rolls out mobile HD voice |
| Mobile firm Orange becomes the first UK network to use a new technology that claims to offer higher quality voice calls. |
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| Advert watchdog gets online power |
| The Advertising Standards Authority is given the power to regulate ads and marketing claims on websites and services like Facebook. |
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| Phone app to monitor heartbeat |
| More than three million doctors have downloaded a phone application to monitor heartbeats through a phone. |
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| Google and Skype face India ban |
| Following tough action against Blackberry, security forces in India turn their attention to Google and Skype. |
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| Who are 4chan? |
| The internet pranksters who helped expose cat bin lady |
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| Google to relieve e-mail overload |
| Google launches priority inbox to help conquer email overload and rank messages that matter most. |
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| Perfect pitch |
| Can technology and music happily coexist? |
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| In the beginning... |
| Meet Google's first ever employee |
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| Intel to buy German wireless unit |
| US chipmaker Intel agrees to buy the wireless unit of German counterpart Infineon for $1.4bn, disappointing markets. |
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| Blackberry in India ban reprieve |
| Blackberry-maker Research in Motion offers to work with India to support the country's need for "lawful access" to encrypted services |
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| Silicon switch |
| Relocating a technology firm from Switzerland to the US |
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| Blackberry looks to strike India deal |
| The Canadian owners of Blackberry, Research in Motion, have offered an olive branch to the Indian government in the bitter battle over e-mail secrecy. |
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| Turning brainwaves into music |
| Musicians Finn Peters and Matthew Yee-King attempt to convert John Humphrys and Justin Webb's thoughts into music |
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| Turbine swarms go with the flow |
| Scientists are developing self-organising swarms of turbines which they hope can be used to tap energy from the Gulf Stream. |
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| Motion capture clue to human behaviour |
| The system of digitising actors to create characters in films like Avatar is being used to measure human behaviour in real life. |
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| 'A relentless barrage of abuse' |
| Groups who work with the victims of cyber-stalking say efforts to tackle the problem are being delayed because Internet Service Providers will not take action. |
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| Billionaire sues hi-tech giants |
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s. |
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| Sony obtains ban on PS3 hack chip |
| Sony has won a temporary ban to prevent Australian distributors selling a hardware hack for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). |
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| Intel warning over weaker sales |
| Computer chipmaker Intel cut its profit forecast after warning that sales of computers were weaker than expected. |
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| Extreme wifi |
| How balloons and kites can help you become a digital nomad |
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| Art and technology push boundaries |
| The Creators Project is a new network celebrating technology and creativity in the clubbing scene, across media and around the world. Click paid it a visit. |
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| Silicon Valley's 'lucky building' |
| How 165 University Ave produced blockbusters like Google, Paypal. |
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| Demand for spyware soars in India |
| Demand for spy technology is soaring in India. |
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| Fake iTunes reviews row settled |
| A US trade body rules against a marketing firm whose employees posted favourable reviews of its clients' apps on iTunes. |
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| Webscape: Floor plans and rock stars |
| Kate Russell rearranges her furniture with the help of the web and goes in search of a number one song. |
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| 'Missing' Metropolis film restored |
| Stephen Smith considers what made Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis, so hugely influential, as a newly restored version of the sci-fi epic is premiered in London. |
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| Unmanned helicopter in development |
| A pilotless helicopter that could be used to resupply troops in Afghanistan is being developed for the US military. |
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| 'Anti-Facebook' eyes launch date |
| An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on the 15 September, the developers of the Diaspora project say. |
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| Virtual rule |
| Russian republic goes electronic to deal with red tape |
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| Space crystals 'to grow on ISS' |
| Scientists are planning to use the International Space Station to grow a new kind of crystal for use in solar cells by 2013. |
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| Electricity 'pulled from the air' |
| A scheme to generate renewable energy by simply pulling electric charge out of humid air sparks debate amongst scientists. |
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| Blackberry makes offer to India |
| Blackberry-maker Research in Motion offers to work with India to support the country's need for "lawful access" to encrypted services |
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| Dell agrees $1.6bn 3Par takeover |
| Computer giant Dell agrees to take over data storage firm 3Par after tabling an improved offer for the company. |
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| Comic capers |
| An illustrated guide to Scott Pilgrim vs The World. |
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| Money for music in a digital age |
| Modern technology means that writing, recording and publishing music has never been easier – but getting paid for it is more of a challenge. |
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| Tobacco firms' web impact probed |
| The tobacco industry may be using websites such as YouTube to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes, a study says. |
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| Google's Gmail offers free calls |
| Google takes on Skype by offering free and cheap calls from its free web-based email service, Gmail. |
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| Wikileaks posts CIA terror memo |
| Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks publishes a CIA memo examining the implications of the US being perceived as an "exporter of terrorism". |
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| Supercomputer clue to black holes |
| The colossal black holes that reside in galaxies were probably formed shortly after the Big Bang, new research suggests. |
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| Energy drinks 'to power gadgets' |
| Living cell parts have been used to create electricity from chemicals in devices that could one day be fuelled by energy drinks. |
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| US military 'hit in cyber strike' |
| A 2008 cyber attack launched from an infected flash drive in the Middle East penetrated secret US military computers, a top Pentagon official says. |
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| Magic wand casts spell on Dragons |
| Technical wizards Chris Barnardo and Richard Blakesley try to persuade the Dragons to invest in their magic wand remote control. |
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| Record uptake for gaming course |
| A Norfolk university is reporting its highest ever enrolment for its computer games degree despite struggles in the gaming industry. |
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| New UK passport design revealed |
| The Home Office unveils the design of the new UK passport which has enhanced security features to tackle identity theft and fraud. |
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| Fat-fingered sumo wrestlers given iPads |
| Fat-fingered sumo wrestlers, unable to tap the keys on standard mobile phones, are being given iPads to communicate. |
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| Blast from the past |
| How the 30-year-old BBC Micro is making a comeback |
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| Tech Know: Retro BBC computers |
| School students are writing video games on the iconic 1980s machines to learn "true" computer programming |
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| Tagging for psychiatric patients |
| For the first time in Britain, a satellite tracking system is being used to monitor the movements of violent offenders with mental health problems. |
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| BT ad banned over broadband claim |
| A BT advert is banned for misleading customers over the speed of the company's broadband, the advertising watchdog says. |
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| Online copycats |
| California moves to outlaw net impersonators |
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| Web scam hits iTunes and Paypal |
| iTunes accounts linked to PayPal have been hacked with some users complaining that their accounts have been cleaned out. |
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| Banned Brotherhood in Egypt gets 'own Facebook' |
| Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement launches its own Facebook-style social networking site to promote moderate Islamic values, it says. |
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| Microsoft probes Halo game breach |
| Microsoft is investigating how an eagerly anticipated Xbox game appeared on the internet three weeks ahead of its official release. |
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| Cheating gamers face online ban |
| The people behind one of the biggest video games of the year are taking the unusual step of banning some of its fans from playing the online, multi-player version. |
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| Dust busting technology from Mars |
| Technology developed for space missions to Mars enables terrestrial solar panels to self-clean and stay dust free. |
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| HP trumps Dell in $1.6bn 3PAR bid |
| Computer maker Hewlett Packard bids $1.6bn (£1bn) for data storage firm 3PAR, trumping a $1.2bn offer made by rival Dell. |
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| Soldiers on call for game ban |
| British troops give their views on the defence secretary's call for Medal of Honor to be banned. |
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| Bum notes |
| What is autotuning and how widespread is it? |
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| Fox defends video game ban call |
| Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox defends his comments calling on retailers to refuse to sell the forthcoming Medal of Honor game. |
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| Performance art |
| Is technology stealing the actor's limelight? |
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| Mum's the word |
| Meet the latest force to take on the blogosphere |
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| Lady Gaga overtakes Britney Spears for Twitter record |
| The US singer has overtaken Britney Spears to become the most followed person on social networking site Twitter. |
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| Aliens 'may be thinking machines' |
| The hunt for aliens should allow for the fact that ETs may be thinking machines rather than like us, a leading researcher says. |
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| Iran unveils first bomber drone |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveils his country's first domestically built, unmanned bomber plane. |
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| Data blow to gravity satellite |
| The European Space Agency battles to recover its Goce gravity satellite which has been struck by a second computer glitch. |
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| Wikileaks rape warrant cancelled |
| An arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on rape accusations is abruptly cancelled by Swedish authorities just hours after it was issued. |
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| Wikileaks founder accused of rape |
| Swedish officials say they have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. |
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| Moore supports Wikileaks accused |
| Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore donates $5,000 (£3,900) to defend the man suspected of giving classified documents to the website Wikileaks. |
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| Twelve charged over 'iTunes scam' |
| Twelve people are to appear in court accused of using stolen credit cards to make money by buying their own songs through iTunes. |
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| Kenya looks to technology-based future |
| Kenya has great ambitions to establish itself as a tech-hub for Africa. But can it really keep up the pace of innovation? |
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| Electric dreams |
| Why fill your house with 1,200 old radio sets? |
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| The multi-tasking myth |
| Can you really watch TV and e-mail at the same time? |
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| Hardware hackers claim PS3 crack |
| Hackers claim they will release the first product to allow gamers to play homemade and pirated games on the PlayStation 3. |
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| Virtual reality asks tough questions |
| Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible. |
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| Virtual reality asks tough questions |
| Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour. |
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| Closeted talks on open internet |
| A body representing some of the biggest names on the net holds closed door talks to discuss the future of the open internet. |
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| Online sales hit three-year high |
| Internet sales grew in July at their fastest pace since before the recession, as rain encouraged home shopping, figures suggests. |
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| Dell predicts stronger sales rise |
| Dell beat Wall Street sales and profit forecasts, and predicted a "pick-up" in demand from corporate customers. |
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| How to create new online identity |
| Stephen Smith employs a PR firm which specialises in online profiles to smarten up his and create a new identity. |
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| How to create new online identity |
| Stephen Smith employs a PR firm which specialises in online profiles to smarten up his and create a new identity. |
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| Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover |
| The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, announces a deal to buy the security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn). |
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| Wikileaks tactics 'challenge law' |
| A novel use of encryption by the whistle-blowing website could challenge legal systems for years to come, experts suggest. |
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| Media and multi-tasking in the UK |
| The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, data from Ofcom suggests. |
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| How do you use technology? |
| An Ofcom reports show half our day is spent using media and older people are catching up on the young. |
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| Hackspaces near home |
| Why community laboratories called hackspaces are springing up around the world |
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| Brazil holds online poll debate |
| Brazil's three main presidential candidates take part in the first online debate as they campaign for October's elections. |
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| Facebook adds location services |
| The social network adds a feature that allows members to share their location with friends while on the move. |
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| Games factory |
| Inside the Gamescom video games fair in Germany |
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| Britons 'multi-task' with media |
| The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, often multi-tasking, Ofcom reports. |
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| Nine held over global iPhone scam |
| Nine people are arrested over a global scam which made millions of pounds by using fraudulently bought mobiles to call premium phone lines. |
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| Sony revamps PlayStation 3 lineup |
| The electronics giant unveils two new models of its PlayStation 3 console at the Gamescom video games conference in Cologne. |
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| Google boss warns on social media |
| Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says people will change their names to distance themselves from embarrassing content on the net. |
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| Vietnam's bid to tame the internet |
| The Vietnamese government has responded to the internet boom with a new law obliging any place that provides public access to the internet to install monitoring software, this will enable the authorities to track who is doing what online. |
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| Google's social networking plans |
| A look at the future of the world's biggest search engine and the company's plans to take on Facebook and Farmville. |
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| Paint prose |
| As Apple releases the source code to vintage program MacPaint, who can read it? |
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| North Korea launches on Twitter |
| North Korea joins the micro-blogging site Twitter, following last month's launch of a North Korean YouTube channel. |
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| US astronauts to be first twins in space |
| Two US astronauts may become the first twins to be flying in space at the same time. |
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| Blogger boom |
| Vietnam struggles to tame the internet |
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| Realtime games company collapses |
| Pioneering Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds collapses putting hundreds of jobs at risk. |
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| Spain investigates Google wi-fi |
| Spain becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the collection of sensitive wi-fi data by Google Street View cars. |
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| Israeli denies Facebook mistake |
| A former Israeli soldier says she did nothing wrong by posting pictures of her and Palestinian prisoners onto Facebook. |
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| India orders Blackberry deadline |
| India sends formal notices to mobile operators telling them they must have equipment to monitor Blackberry services by 31 August. |
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| Kinect gets UK release date |
| Microsoft says its hands free motion control system Kinect will hit UK shelves on 10 November, just five days after the US. |
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| Predicting your local micro-climate |
| Residents of one of small village are looking to their local weatherman for their forecasts. |
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| Facebook 'dislike' scam warning |
| Facebook users are being targeted in a scam that offers them a chance to install a "dislike" button, security researchers say. |
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| Cult of less |
| Meet the minimalists living out of their hard drives |
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| Yahoo soccer highlights kick off |
| Internet services firm Yahoo begins its Barclays Premier League online football highlight service. |
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| Do u speek lulz? |
| How the internet is changing the language we use |
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| Prescription vending machine on trial |
| Two types of vending machines for prescription drugs are going on trial in the UK. |
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| Net neutrality protest at Google |
| Protesters march on Google's headquarters to denounce its open internet plan and urge it to honour its "don't be evil" motto. |
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| Game on |
| Fast networks might mean the end of the games console |
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| Online gaming takes it to the next level |
| Faster broadband networks could spell the end of the games console, experts say. |
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| Webscape - GPS treasure hunting |
| Web reviewer Kate Russell tries out GPS geocaching and challenges you to make a practical difference |
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| How to get a grip on your email inbox |
| Some tips from the productivity maestros who use technology to manage their time more efficiently, stay on top of their inbox, and let others help them achieve their goals. |
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| Supercomputer science |
| A look at what supercomputers do and how they do it |
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| Call to improve password security |
| The growing power of graphics cards might mean passwords have to get longer to stay secure, suggests research. |
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| Android "voice action" launches |
| As Android phones become best sellers in the US, Google launches new voice command feature in latest challenge to competitors |
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| Inside Southampton's new supercomputer |
| A new supercomputer is transforming the way research is conducted at the University of Southampton. |
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| Oracle sues Google over Android |
| Business software maker Oracle files a lawsuit against Google, accusing the firm of infringing patents on its technology. |
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| Home computers discover rare star |
| Three "citizen scientists" discover a rare astronomical object using the processing power of their home computers. |
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| Hackers talk privacy in New York |
| Laura Sheeter reports on the latest developments from HOPE, the Hackers on Planet Earth, an event where three thousand delegates recently came together in New York. |
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| Rise in Facebook 'panic' reports |
| More than 200 Facebook users have reported "abuse" following the launch of a "panic button" application last month, figures show. |
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| Tax scam websites closed down |
| More than 180 websites responsible for income tax "phishing" e-mails have been closed down in the past three months. |
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| India sets deadline for BlackBerry |
| India sets a deadline of 31 August for the maker of BlackBerry phones to provide access to its services or face being shut down. |
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| Neutral network |
| One of the founding principles of the internet is under scrutiny |
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| Apple fixes 'drive-by' loophole |
| New firmware update for Apple's mobile operating system shuts out jailbreak users and removes potential security risk. |
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| US broadband plan 'not a priority' |
| Most Americans say the government's plans for broadband are not a priority, a survey finds, amid fierce debate about the issue. |
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| Vodafone backs down in Android row |
| Phone giant Vodafone has backed down in a row with customers over software updates for some Google Android handsets. |
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| Full flash video on phones |
| Watching video on the vast majority of websites has become possible on a mass market phone. |
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| 'Digi-bike' aims to reduce crime |
| A four-wheeled contraption has been unveiled as a police force's latest device in the fight against crime. |
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| 'Whiteboard girl' hoax fools thousands on net |
| A series of photographs, allegedly from a woman quitting her post over her boss, have been exposed as an elaborate internet hoax. |
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| Row over 'million dollar puzzle' |
| A claim by a scientist at Hewlett-Packard to have solved one of the most difficult riddles in maths is challenged by scientists. |
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| Alien hunt |
| fantasy finally become reality |
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| UK game developers turn to phones |
| There has been a significant growth in UK developers making games for Apple's iPhone, the trade association Tiga says. |
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| Speedy solution to Rubik's Cube |
| A 30-year quest to find the minimum number of moves needed to solve every configuration of a Rubik's Cube may have ended. |
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| Those six letters |
| How we all ended up using the Qwerty keyboard |
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| Virus writers hit Android phones |
| A malicious application that racks up premium rate charges on phones running Google's Android operating system is found. |
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| EMI copyright claim on spoof Welsh music video |
| The hit internet spoof video Newport State Of Mind which parodies Jay-Z has been removed from YouTube due to a "copyright claim" by EMI Publishing. |
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| Saudi gives Blackberry reprieve |
| Saudi Arabia's telecommunications regulator says it will allow Blackberry services to temporarily continue in the kingdom. |
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| US military to attack future computers |
| Supercomputers one thousand times more powerful than existing machines are being planned by a US defence research agency. |
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| Police raid Google Korea offices |
| South Korean police raid Google's Seoul office on suspicion the company had illegally collected users' personal information. |
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| How a fake phone app 'steals data' |
| Hi-tech criminals are turning their attention from pcs to smartphones, with malicious applications designed to steal saleable personal information. |
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| XBox Kinect: Radio 1 listeners' test |
| Newsbeat's had a sneak preview at the latest technology from Xbox which senses a player's body movements to control games. |
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| Smartphone security put on test |
| A smartphone application that spies on mobile owners has been created by BBC News to test how secure these devices are. |
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| Google/Verizon plan open internet |
| Google and Verizon present proposals for an open internet but critics fear a two-tier service. |
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| Craigslist responds to sex claims |
| Web marketplace Craigslist responds to claims the site adult section 'aids sex trafficking' and 'promotes prostitution'. |
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| Skype files for $100m flotation |
| Internet phone firm Skype files for an initial public offering in the US, hoping to raise $100m through the flotation. |
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| MoD suspends the military kit website Kit 4 Troops |
| A website allowing people to send supplies to British soldiers in Afghanistan has been temporarily shut down over security fears. |
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| Craigslist 'aids prostitution' |
| Web marketplace Craigslist is under increasing pressure over its adult services section, which critics say aids sex trafficking. |
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| Apple iPhone boss leaves company |
| The man who oversaw creation of the iPhone 4 is leaving Apple in a move believed to be linked to the handset's antenna problems. |
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| Fashion fusion |
| When the worlds of hi-tech and haute couture collide |
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| BBC loses gadgets worth £240,000 |
| BBC laptops and mobiles worth £241,019 were lost or stolen over the past two years, it emerges. |
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| Saudi Blackberry deal 'in sight' |
| An agreement has been reached between the Saudi authorities and the Canadian maker of the Blackberry smart phone averting a ban on the service, officials in Saudi Arabia say. |
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| Saudi Blackberry deal 'in sight' |
| An agreement to prevent a ban on the Blackberry smartphone in Saudi Arabia is close to completion, Saudi officials say. |
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| Astronauts tackle urgent repair |
| Two astronauts have attempted to repair a broken cooling system on the International Space Station, in an eight-hour space walk. |
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| Computer boss quits in sex probe |
| Mark Hurd resigns as chief executive officer and president of Hewlett-Packard following a sexual harassment probe, the company says. |
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| Saudi Arabia ends Blackberry ban |
| Blackberry services have reportedly been restored in Saudi Arabia, following a government ban over security concerns. |
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| Airline fixes boy's wheelchair 'after Twitter pressure' |
| Pressure from Twitter users forces Air Canada to fix a terminally ill boy's wheelchair after it was damaged during a flight, his family says. |
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| Saudi Blackberry service resumes |
| Blackberry devices are working again in Saudi Arabia after a four hour outage, despite a ban due to come into force on Friday 6 August. |
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| The real deal? |
| Mixing life and games via augmented reality |
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| Fantasy becomes reality |
| Augmented reality on smartphones offer immersive worlds that sit on top of our own. |
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| Fair play |
| Changing the portrayal of women in video games |
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| Blackberry 'ban' in Saudi Arabia |
| A ban on the use of Blackberry phones to send and receive messages is being rolled out in Saudi Arabia, users say. |
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| Private browsing modes leak data |
| Private browsing modes may not shield personal data, warns a study of popular web browsers. |
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| Net neutrality talks stall in US |
| Officials and net giants unable to agree on compromise over the concept of faster speeds for websites prepared to pay a premium. |
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| Clinton talks over BlackBerry ban |
| The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold talks with UAE over its impending BlackBerry handset ban, due on 11 October |
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| Dung Beetle: No flies on poo-power car |
| A "poo-powered" VW Beetle has taken to the streets of Bristol in an attempt to encourage sustainable motoring. |
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| Jordan bans lazy workers from the web |
| Jordan bars public sector workers from accessing 50 websites after it was found they wasted 2.5 hours a day online. |
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| Indian firm targets games market |
| An Indian firm is aiming to be a global player in the video games market with the launch of its first title, called El Shaddai. |
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| Google signals the end for Wave |
| Google will stop developing Wave, a product which the company said would transform the way people communicate online. |
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| School ICT lessons a 'turn-off' |
| Information technology lessons in UK schools are so dull they are putting pupils off the subject and careers in computing, the Royal Society warns. |
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| Thorny issue |
| Why have BlackBerrys been banned in the Gulf states? |
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| Intel settles antitrust lawsuit |
| US chipmaker Intel has settled an antitrust lawsuit filed against it by the US Federal Trade Commission. |
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| 'Thousands' targeted in bank scam |
| Researchers uncover a network of thousands of PCs that is being used to harvest online banking details in the UK. |
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| Stirling Moss's pad has gadgets galore |
| How should the fast-moving technology industry adapt its devices to make them more inclusive for the older generation? |
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| Where do old computers go? |
| Old TVs and PCs still poisoning children in Africa |
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| iPhone at risk from security flaw |
| Security firm Symantec has warned that an issue with Adobe Acrobat could allow malicious code to get into iPhones and iPads. |
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| The tweet elite |
| An author and a musician explain how Twitter connects with fans |
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| Call to label airbrushed photos |
| Airbrushed celebrity photos should be labelled to help tackle "damaging and unrealistic pressures" on young women, the girl guiding group says. |
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| Dyson Award for steriliser bottle |
| A bottle that uses ultraviolet light to sterilise drinking water wins the Dyson Award for answers to everyday problems. |
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| Hydrogen games |
| A green cab for London's 2012 Olympics |
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| Saudi Blackberry ban from Friday |
| Saudi Arabia's telecoms watchdog calls on telecoms firms in the country to block the messenger function on Blackberry handsets from Friday. |
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| Fitting an underwater 'plug socket' |
| Installation of the world's largest test site for wave energy has begun off the Cornish coast. |
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| Council's iPad trial sparks anger |
| A union has criticised Leicester City Council for considering buying iPads for its councillors despite planning up to 1,000 job cuts. |
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| RIM launches touchscreen Torch |
| Blackberry launches a touchscreen mobile in an effort to challenge devices from Apple and those running Google Android software. |
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| Telco wins crucial data from BT |
| BT has agreed to change the way it hands over vital customer data to rivals. |
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| Wikipedia and FBI row over agency seal |
| A row has broken out between Wikipedia and the FBI over the use of the agency logo. |
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| A new hope? |
| A look at the latest online Star Wars game. |
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| Web attack knows where you live |
| A single visit to a booby-trapped webpage could let attackers find out your exact location, reveals a security researcher. |
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| Virgin Media in Canvas complaint |
| Cable firm Virgin Media has asked Ofcom to investigate the BBC-backed Project Canvas, saying it is anti-competitive. |
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| Gulf states unveil Blackberry ban |
| Two Gulf states have announced bans on some functions of the Blackberry mobile phone, claiming security concerns. |
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| Spike in Android phone shipments |
| Shipments of Google's Android operating system for smartphones have rocketed by 886% in the last year, figures suggest. |
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| Rapper Kanye West makes Coventry man online star |
| Rapper Kanye West makes a Coventry man an online star by following him on social networking site Twitter. |
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| iPhone 4 jailbreak app goes live |
| Jailbreakme 2.0, the new software app that lets iPhone and iPod touch owners running iOS4 use unrestricted applications, is released. |
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| Microsoft to patch shortcut bug |
| An urgent security patch for a flaw in the way Microsoft Windows handles shortcuts is being issued on 2 August, the firm says. |
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| Pushing pixels |
| Can you ever believe your eyes in the digital world? |
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| UAE 'to deny Blackberry services' |
| The UAE is to suspend some Blackberry mobile phone services, having said the devices pose a "national security risk", its state news agency reports. |
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| Twitter passes 20 billionth tweet |
| Twitter, the social networking site which allows users to say something in up to 140 characters, sees its 20 billionth message sent. |
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| Passenger planes of the future |
| Fast Track investigates whether we are likely to be flying in transparent aeroplanes powered by solar energy by the year 2050. |
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| High tech in the 'Silicon Forest' |
| Novosibirsk has become a cluster for IT companies, earning it the nickname 'Silicon Forest'. |
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| Astronomy apps |
| Nifty ways to navigate the night sky |
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| Accessing content under the radar |
| Click looks at how people are using proxy servers and VPNs to access restricted content on the internet, and bypass geographical borders. |
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| Life among the cyber-elite |
| Web entrepreneur Joi Ito speaks about his life and career. |
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| Call to check on mobile security |
| Owners of mobile phones are being asked to test the security of their network to see if enough is being done to stop eavesdropping. |
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| UK troops use iPad app for fire mission training |
| Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire. |
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| Chip sales boost Samsung profits |
| Samsung Electronics reports record quarterly profits thanks to higher sales of smartphones and components such as memory chips. |
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| Hybrid supercar to go on sale |
| Porsche has confirmed it'll make a limited number of a new hybrid supercar it's been developing. |
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| Government's £6m web search bill |
| Four government departments spent almost £6m ensuring their websites appeared on search engine results pages, new figures show. |
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| Google cleared of wi-fi snooping |
| No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office. |
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| Facebook data hoarder speaks out |
| Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users. |
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| Facebook makes move into search |
| Facebook has made its first steps into the search market with the launch a servcie that allows users to quiz the site's 500m members. |
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| Who will win the 3D TV war? |
| Some of the biggest names in Japan's technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders. |
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| Amazon offers new look UK Kindle |
| Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books. |
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| 100m Facebook users' data published |
| Details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security researcher. |
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| Legal action on 'zombie cookies' |
| Lawsuit filed in San Francisco district court after firms resurrected deleted browser cookies. |
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| Green light for mobile auctions |
| The government has finally set a date for the auction of airwaves crucial to next-generation mobile services. |
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| Nintendo game copiers 'illegal' |
| A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games on the Nintendo DS console are illegal in the UK. |
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| Gamers try out Nintendo 3DS |
| Two Newsbeat listeners, Neil and Melanie, have been given a sneak preview of Nintendo's new hand-held console the 3DS. |
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| State of global internet revealed |
| Asian countries top the charts when it comes to internet speeds, according to a global survey by network giant Akamai. |
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| Britain's oldest Tweeter dies at the age of 104 |
| 104-year-old Ivy Bean, who is said to be the oldest user of social media site Twitter, has passed away in her sleep. |
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| Speed limit |
| What makes your broadband connection slow? |
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| Botnet hacker caught in Slovenia |
| One of the hackers behind a computer virus that infected nearly 13m computers has been tracked down by international authorities. |
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| Sneak preview |
| Newsbeat tries out the world's first 3D hand-held console |
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| Facebook reveals murder suspect |
| Police in the Philippines use Facebook to find and arrest a suspect in the murder of nine people, including three foreigners. |
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| Web expert on internet 'catastrophe' key |
| A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to help restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4's PM programme about what he might be called upon to do in an international online emergency. |
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| HTC makes first foray into China |
| One of the world's top designers of smartphones, Taiwan's HTC, has announced it is moving into the Chinese market for the first time. |
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| Long wait for StarCraft II ends |
| The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released. |
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| US 'heat ray' gun fails final test |
| The US military has decided not to use the Active Denial System in Afghanistan and has sent the non-lethal weapon back to the States. |
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| Yahoo Japan to use Google search |
| Yahoo Japan says it will use Google's search engine technology, rather than Microsoft's which is used by partner Yahoo Inc. |
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| MOD splashes out on night vision |
| The Ministry of Defence has put through an 'urgent request' to finish a £35m order for 'Generation Three' night vision goggles. |
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| UK 'misled' on broadband speeds |
| The majority of people using broadband are not getting the speed they are paying for, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests. |
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| IBM faces two competition probes |
| The European Commission has launched two inquiries to study whether IBM has abused its dominant position in mainframe computers. |
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| BlackBerrys pose 'security risk' |
| The United Arab Emirates says that it is considering restrictions on BlackBerry phones, as they pose a "national security risk". |
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| Space age sub explores slick |
| David Shukman takes a dive in a research sub as it investigates the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico's coral reefs. |
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| US hits out at Afghan war leaks |
| Washington condemns as "irresponsible" the release by Wikileaks website of 90,000 secret US military records about the conflict in Afghanistan. |
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| Wikileak news conference |
| Wikileak founder Julian Assange gives a news conference about the 90,000 classified US records on the Afghanistan war, published by his website. |
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| Cyber security specialists sought |
| A national competition is kicked off to find people who will help defend the UK against the rising tide of cyber crime. |
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| Can you crack the cyber-crime code? |
| A Britain's Got Talent style competition is being held to find UK's finest IT workers. |
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| What is Wikileaks? |
| A look at the high-profile but secretive whistle-blowing website |
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| Royal family opens Flickr account |
| Rare pictures of the Royal family have been posted on the internet after Buckingham Palace opened an account on photo sharing website Flickr. |
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| In pictures |
| The Queen joins photo website Flickr |
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| Royal family opens Flickr account |
| Rare pictures of the Royal family are posted on the internet after Buckingham Palace opens a Flickr account. |
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| Why women gamers are big business |
| Almost half the people who play computers games in Britain are women, but they often prefer a different type of game to men. |
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| Be careful what you tweet |
| Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson |
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| Wing-to-tail guide to 'eternal' plane |
| An unmanned solar-powered plane has set a new world record by staying airborne continuously for a fortnight. |
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| India shows $35 'iPad' prototype |
| The Indian government unveils the prototype of an iPad-like touch-screen laptop, with a price tag of $35 (£23), which it hopes to roll out next year. |
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| Privacy v profit |
| Is Facebook's pursuit of short-term profits risking its long-term survival? |
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| Microsoft gets at chip blueprints |
| Software giant Microsoft has signed a deal to get access to blueprints for the mobile chips designed by Arm. |
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| BBC News iPhone app is launched |
| A mobile app for BBC News will be made available on 23 July after the BBC Trust ruled that it could go ahead in Britain. |
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| Hacked website legal bid approved |
| Chinese search engine Baidu has a "plausible" case against its domain register after it was attacked by hackers, a judge rules. |
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| Can wireless charging work? |
| Click has had a look at the market and found a couple of wireless chargers that could help you can the cables and juice up your phone or laptop - but will they catch on? |
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| Phone thefts targeted by database |
| Phone thieves will find it harder to sell handsets to 'recycling' companies after the setting-up of a new police and industry database of stolen mobiles. |
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| Neurons to power future computers |
| Futuristic computers that learn to see and listen could result from research into the ways nerve cells communicate. |
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| UK nanotech centres 'may be axed' |
| Britain's 24 nanotechnology centres could be among the casualties of cuts to the UK science budget, science minister David Willetts has said. |
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| Windows 7 boosts Microsoft profit |
| Microsoft reports a sharp rise in quarterly profits to $4.52bn as sales of the Windows 7 operating system top 175 million. |
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| Firm scrambles to patch forum bug |
| A flaw in software widely used to power online discussion sites could allow hackers to harvest personal data, the BBC learns. |
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| Finland's Nokia profits slump 40% |
| Profits at Finnish mobile phone handset company Nokia slump by 40% in the second quarter compared with 2009. |
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| Missile system gets its own iPhone app |
| US defence firm Raytheon has released an iPhone application to keep Patriot Missile troops up to speed. |
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| Google pressed on wi-fi snooping |
| The names of the Google engineers who wrote the code that scooped up data from wi-fi networks are being demanded by US states. |
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| Social not-working? |
| In graphics: The rise and fall of social networking sites |
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| PayPal gives eBay profits boost |
| Auction site operator eBay has reported a 26% rise in profits thanks largely to increased use of its PayPal service. |
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| Facebook hits the 500 million mark |
| Social network giant Facebook has announced that it has registered its 500 millionth member - one in 13 of the entire global population. |
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| BP admits 'photo-shopping' oil leak image |
| Oil firm BP admits to posting an altered image of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill response centre on its website. |
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| Drugs robots help out hospital staff |
| Two robots have been installed to process prescriptions quickly and accurately for patients at a hospital in Swindon. |
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| Facebook hits 500m user milestone |
| The social network says it now has more than half a billion registered users, after adding 100m in the last six months. |
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| Social behemoth |
| The unintended consequences of the rise of Facebook |
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| Vibrations 'to replace batteries' |
| A Japanese electronics firm shows off a vibration-harvesting generator that could replace batteries. |
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| Hacker's mother hopeful after US talks |
| The mother of the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon says it is "wonderful" his case has been raised by the prime minister during talks with the US president. |
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| Web creates window for film makers |
| The internet is increasingly being used as a springboard for talented film makers. |
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| Google images top 1bn page views |
| For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words - it is worth one billion page views a day, claims the firm. |
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| 'Terminator tailors' |
| Shape-shifting robots aim to give web shoppers the right fit |
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| Cashing in on Apple's success |
| Meet the developer who's quit his job, and now makes £6,000 a month creating apps from his kitchen |
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| Yahoo profit figures disappoint |
| Yahoo boosted profits by more than 50%, but the shares were down as net revenues fell short of analysts' estimates |
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| Apple profits ahead of forecasts |
| Profit figures from Apple soar past Wall Street forecasts, boosted by sales of Mac computers and iPads. |
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| Newer planemaker orders take off |
| Increasingly, airlines are looking beyond Boeing and Airbus to newer planemakers who are targeting customers looking to buy smaller regional jets. |
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| Soldiers' exoskeleton system tested |
| A robotic exo-skeleton that makes it easier for soldiers to carry heavy equipment is entering a new phase of testing in the US. |
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| EU boosts hi-tech research budget |
| The EU announces 6.4bn euros (£5.4bn) of funding for scientific research and innovation next year - a 12% increase on this year's allocation. |
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| India's police welcome 3G phones |
| The arrival of 3G phones in India has sparked a wave of applications including a police site that allows you to mail in photos of badly parked cars. |
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| Tech that really understands you |
| Speech recognition is being used in a range of gadgets - but does it actually work? |
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| Honda will start selling electric cars from 2012 |
| Honda will start selling electric and plug-in hybrid cars in the US and Japan from 2012 |
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| Data torrents |
| Making sense of the mass of information on the web |
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| Lock-picking |
| The hackers who like to relax with a spot of 'analogue hacking' |
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| Blogs closed over terror threats |
| A web hosting company has shut down a blogging platform that was home to over 70,000 bloggers because of fears over links to terrorist material. |
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| Mobiles 'may boost tinnitus risk' |
| Regularly using a mobile phone may increase the risk of tinnitus, in which there is constant ringing or buzzing in the ear, a small study suggests. |
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| Close-up look at supersonic car |
| Wing Commander Andy Green gives a look around the full-scale model for the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car. |
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| Anti-aircraft laser makes debut |
| US defence firm Raytheon unveils a solid state, anti-aircraft laser system at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire. |
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| Justin Bieber beats Gaga YouTube record |
| The Canadian singer has overtaken Lady Gaga to have the most viewed music video on YouTube. |
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| Model of supersonic car unveiled |
| The British team hoping to drive a car faster than 1,000mph unveils a full-scale model of the vehicle at the Farnborough air show. |
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| UK games developers lured away |
| At the last Budget, the Chanceller scrapped a planned tax break to help out Britain's £1bn video games industy. Now other countries are trying to tempt the UK's best developers away. |
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| Online community for under 10s |
| A social networking site aimed at 6 to 8-year-olds is the latest indication that children are spending increasing time on computers. |
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| iPhone faults to hurt Apple's core fans? |
| Apple is offering a free case to tackle the iPhone 4's antenna problem, but will the fault damage the technology giant's reputation? |
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| X-ray uncovers Mona Lisa's secrets |
| French scientists are confident they have uncovered a secret of the "Mona Lisa": da Vinci used thirty layers of paint and glazes to create an illusion of depth and shadow. |
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| Steve Jobs offers free iPhone case |
| Apple boss Steve Jobs has promised a free phone case to every owner of its iPhone4, as the company deals with problems surrounding the handset's antenna. |
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| Apple offers free iPhone 4 cases |
| Apple will offer a free case to every owner of its iPhone 4, following complaints of reception problems. |
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| Websites take on bogus reviewers |
| Search engines and websites are seeking ways to beat spammers who post fake reviews |
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| How technology 'rewires' our brains |
| Our constant immersion in the online world could be making us more creative, experts argue. |
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| School security |
| Why banning technology from classrooms is a mistake |
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| Brain games |
| Video gamers could be controlling on-screen action via brain power |
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| Microsoft founder pledges fortune |
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he will commit most of his estimated $13.5bn fortune to philanthropy after his death. |
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| Helping children help themselves |
| Work with computers and slum children in India may have given rise to a novel teaching method. |
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| Hi-tech helpers |
| How hi-tech has ushered in an era of Disaster Relief 2.0 |
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| Pain relief implant gives new hope |
| The first operation in Scotland to make use of the kind of technology used in i-Phones and Nintendo Wii takes place. |
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| Software 'cuts rail delays' in EU |
| More trains are running on time in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland thanks to new technology to manage schedules, the EU says. |
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| Apple fixes iPhone signal bar bug |
| Apple issues a fix for the iPhone signal strength bug as users report more handset problems. |
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| Mission to find greenest car of all |
| Marc Cieslak joins the Bridgestone Eco Rally from Brighton to London, which showcases the latest in environmentally friendly car manufacturing. |
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| Inside the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter |
| The BBC has been given exclusive access to film the world's most advanced fighter jet - the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, built by Lockheed Martin for the US and UK military. |
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| Google profits miss expectations |
| Internet giant Google reports a sharp rise in profits and revenue that nonetheless failed to impress Wall Street. |
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| Raoul Moat's tribute page removed |
| The creator of an online tribute to gunman Raoul Moat removes the page from social networking site Facebook. |
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| Government 'let down' game sector |
| Video games sector criticises the government over the lack of promised tax breaks as the Culture Minister says case 'has not been made'. |
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| Is Twitter a force for good? |
| The BBC's Katty Kay spoke to Twitter's co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams about the ever growing online community. |
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| World's end |
| Photographers and film makers capture their 3-D views of the corners of virtual worlds |
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| Time travel |
| You do not need to a Tardis to visit the past, use the Retroscope. |
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| Internet’s vision 'not realised' |
| The web is not helping to broaden people's world view, says US researcher |
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| Apple to brief on iPhone 4 issues |
| Apple has called a surprise news conference to talk about the iPhone 4 handset after complaints about signal strength. |
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| Dial-up dependent in rural areas |
| Broadband is still unavailable in some rural areas of the UK and businesses say it is holding them back. |
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| PC games magazine ends publication after 17 years |
| Britain's first magazine dedicated to desktop gaming, PC Zone, is to cease publication after 17 years. |
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| MP Tessa Jowell becomes landmark on Google Maps |
| Former Labour Olympics minister Tessa Jowell appears as a landmark between Westminster Palace and Big Ben, according to Google Maps. |
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| Costs rise for broadband Britain |
| Industry is estimating that the government will need to plough at least £2bn into the industry if it wants to be the fastest broadband nation by 2015. |
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| Facebook users in India urged to go whiter online |
| Facebook users in India are urged to make themselves appear whiter online, as part of a marketing campaign by the Vaseline skincare company. |
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| Your rights when buying a mobile |
| Mobile phone users should be given much clearer information about the terms of their contract before they sign up, according to the industry watchdog. |
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| Bing gains market share in search |
| Twelve months after launch, search engine Bing has cornered more than 12% of the search engine market, says report. |
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| Tech Know: The sky is not the limit |
| In our series about makers and hackers, we look at the world of amateur rocket-makers. |
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| Mobile firms failing on coverage |
| The Communications Consumer Panel calls for consistent guidelines on cancelling contracts in poor mobile coverage areas. |
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| US lifts lid on WikiLeaks probe |
| US state department tells the BBC how it believes an alleged whistle-blower obtained classified diplomatic data whilst on an army base in Iraq. |
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| Meeting the rocket inventors |
| Ellie Gibson meets the inventors who fire four-metre long rockets into the skies above Cambridgeshire. |
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| Bebo returns |
| Is there still room for the small guy in social networking? |
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| 'Virtual human' makes Xbox debut |
| Microsoft shows off a 'virtual boy' that reacts to human emotions, body movements and voice, designed for Xbox consoles. |
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| Milo comes out to play at TED |
| Microsoft has shown off a 'virtual human' that reacts to a person's emotions, voice and movement at the TED conference in Oxford. |
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| China web filter hit by problems |
| The controversial government-backed Green Dam software project to filter internet content could be on the brink of collapse, reports say. |
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| Improvements to the BBC News Website |
| The BBC's George Alagiah explains the improvements to the BBC News Website |
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| China web filter hit by problems |
| The controversial government-backed Green Dam software project to filter internet content could be on the brink of collapse, reports say. |
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| Microsoft to launch Windows slate |
| Microsoft chief executive says Windows slate PCs - a rival to Apple's iPad - is 'terribly important' to the firm. |
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| Microsoft to launch Windows slate |
| Microsoft chief executive says Windows slate PCs - a rival to Apple's iPad - is 'terribly important' to the firm. |
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| Tech brief |
| Mobile phones for anywhere, and a new view of Mars |
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| Privacy fears over gay teen site |
| A row has erupted in the United States centring on the ownership of a gay teen database after its publishers went bankrupt. |
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| dot.Rory |
| Is David Cameron the first PM who gets the internet? |
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| Gay teenage site in privacy fears |
| A row erupts in the US over the ownership of a gay teenage database of one million people after its publishers went bankrupt. |
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| Outlook gets Facebook integration |
| Outlook users will be able to see their Facebook friends via the e-mail client as Microsoft moves towards social web. |
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| Outlook gets Facebook integration |
| Outlook users will be able to see their Facebook friends via the e-mail client as Microsoft moves towards social web. |
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| Airships to protect British troops |
| A 21st century-style airship could soon be patrolling the skies above Afghanistan, helping protect British troops serving there. |
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| Airships to protect British troops |
| A 21st century-style airship could soon be patrolling the skies above Afghanistan, helping protect British troops serving there. |
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| Morpurgo welcomes book technology |
| Author Michael Morpurgo says he welcomes the idea of children accessing stories through mobile devices instead of books. |
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| Morpurgo welcomes book technology |
| The author Michael Morpurgo says he welcomes the idea of children accessing stories through mobile devices instead of books. |
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| Highs and lows |
| Finding out if Japan is as hi-tech as it appears to be |
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| Highs and lows |
| Finding out if Japan is as hi-tech as it appears to be |
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| Tech Brief |
| Google games and the right kind of flooded pitch |
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| Unmanned combat plane is unveiled |
| Ministry of Defence unveils prototype unmanned stealth combat air vehicle as first step towards pilotless strike aircraft. |
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| MOD unveils new unmanned combat plane |
| Ministry of Defence unveils prototype unmanned stealth combat air vehicle as first step towards pilotless strike aircraft. |
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| Google debuts Android code tools |
| Google has released a suite of tools that let non-programmers create applications for Android smartphones. |
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| Lane Fox 'to get all Britons online' |
| UK digital champion Martha Lane Fox has announced plans to get everybody of working age in Britain online by the end of the current Parliament. |
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| dot.Rory |
| Martha's manifesto: Should people be forced online? |
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| 'Dating scam cost me £50,000' |
| Brenda Parke lost £50,000 in a romance scam to a man she met online. |
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| Lane Fox bid to get the UK online |
| The UK's digital champion launches her Networked Nation manifesto, aimed at the 10 million Britons not yet online. |
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| Facebook agrees to 'panic button' |
| Facebook is to launch a "panic button" application on its social networking site, following protracted negotiations with the government. |
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| How a helicopter gets its blades |
| The BBC is given exclusive behind-the-scenes access at UK defence contractor QinetiQ as engineers race to get Chinook helicopters ready for front line service in Afghanistan. |
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| Smartphone firms face patent row |
| Six smartphone firms including Apple and Nokia are sued by a firm that has previously won a case against Blackberry-maker RIM. |
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| Gamers' victory over real names |
| World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard backs down on the need for gamers to use their real names on its forums after a wave of criticism. |
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| Five quits Project Canvas scheme |
| Channel Five pulls out of Project Canvas - the development of an internet-connected TV set-top box. |
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| East African net fault identified |
| Repairs to the faulty undersea cable, that brought high-speed net access to East Africa, will take at least two weeks. |
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| Tech brief |
| No more Facebook gift shop, plus Bionic yarn |
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| Cameron chats to Facebook founder |
| Downing Street has released footage of a video conference between David Cameron and Mark Zuckerberg over plans to seek ideas on spending cuts through Facebook. |
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| F1 technology adapted to help British troops |
| British troops in Afghanistan could soon be getting help if their armoured vehicle suffers a bomb blast from technology used in Formula 1. |
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| China renews Google web licence |
| China renews Google's licence to operate in China, the internet giant says, ending a long-running stand-off between the two. |
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| Wet defence |
| Liquid armour displays its bullet- stopping potential |
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| Wet defence |
| Liquid armour displays its bullet- stopping potential |
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| Delays to Australian firewall |
| The Australian government has announced an independent review of the rules behind its controversial internet filter. |
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| Over 5 billion mobiles worldwide |
| More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added in 18 months, surpassing five billion, says Wireless Intelligence. |
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| F1 technology adapted to help British troops |
| British troops in Afghanistan could soon be getting help if their armoured vehicle suffers a bomb blast from technology used in Formula 1. |
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| Google accused of Street View "snooping" |
| Google's Street View project may have collected personal information belonging to members of Congress, says US watchdog. |
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| Facebook users asked about cuts |
| The government has announced a tie-up with the Facebook website as it seeks new ideas on spending cuts. |
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| US to access Europeans' bank data |
| The European Parliament backs a new deal to allow US anti-terror investigators to access Europeans' bank data. |
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| Tech Brief |
| No Facebook film ads on the site, plus art from chat |
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| Love puppet |
| Is it wrong to have a ghost writer pen your dating profile? |
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| Big screen |
| Inflatable TV brings football to remote Kenya |
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| Big screen |
| Inflatable TV brings football to remote Kenya |
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| dot.Maggie |
| Who is the most influential person online? |
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| Solar plane's night test success |
| An experimental plane powered by solar cells successfully completes a 26-hour flight and lands safely in Switzerland. |
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| Privacy code of practice issued |
| The Information Commissioner has published a set of guidelines for organisations collecting personal data. |
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| YouTube bids for screen dominance |
| The video sharing site wants to dominate every tv, smartphone and computer screen, and has set its sights on the living room. |
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| German legal action for Facebook |
| German officials launch legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving the personal data of people who do not use the site. |
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| Legal challenge to Digital Act |
| BT and TalkTalk seek a judicial review of the Digital Economy Act, saying it was rushed and could curb basic rights. |
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| Justin Bieber tour vote "a hoax" |
| Universal Music Group denies any involvement in the Justin Bieber tour vote, branding the poll "a hoax". |
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| Row over gamer's true identities |
| A row erupts after the firm behind World of Warcraft announced that users of its sites would have to use their real names. |
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| Apple bans developer from iTunes |
| A 'fraudulent' developer is banned from iTunes as it emerges that he hacked 400 accounts to boost sales of his app. |
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| Megabites for sale: Amazon UK launches grocery offer |
| Online retailer Amazon, better known for selling books and electrical goods, offers UK customers the chance to buy food and drink for the first time. |
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| Solar 24-hour test flight starts |
| An aircraft that draws its power from the Sun starts a round-the-clock test flight to assess whether it can fly in darkness. |
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| Fault disrupts East African net |
| An undersea cable that brought high-speed net access to East Africa for the first time is hit by a fault, knocking many offline. |
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| End of the line for analogue TVs |
| Analogue TV sets can no longer be bought at major retailers across the UK ahead of the digital switchover in 2012. |
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| Round-the-clock solar flight takes off |
| A Swiss team planning to circle the globe in a solar-powered plane has begun a 24-hour test flight. |
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| US soldier charged for Iraq leaks |
| The US military presses charges against a soldier suspected of sending video of a helicopter attack in Iraq to WikiLeaks. |
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| HTC phone sales beat expectations |
| The smartphone manufacturer defies market expectations, posting a 40% rise in sales for the first six months of 2010. |
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| Facebook campaign changes fate of Nigerian football team |
| Nigeria's president says posts on his Facebook page helped persuade him to reverse his ban of the national football team from international competition. |
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| Mobile users are 'wasting £800m' |
| People on mobile phone contracts are wasting £800 million every year because they are on the wrong tariff. |
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| Government discloses app costs |
| BBC News learns that Whitehall has spent tens of thousands of pounds developing iPhone applications. |
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| Tech brief |
| Tributes flood in after the 'death' of Microsoft's Kin |
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| Tech brief |
| Prince predicts net's death and an Iranian robot |
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| Tech brief |
| Nasa begins its exploration of virtual space |
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| dot.Rory |
| Why the outlook for UK dotcoms just got a little brighter |
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| dot.Rory |
| The government website which costs £105m |
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| Man fined over fake eBay auctions |
| A man has been fined and ordered to do community service after being found guilty of fixing an auction on eBay. |
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| Justin Bieber's 'North Korea tour' |
| Justin Bieber tour page is the target of internet pranksters, voting for the Canadian singer to play North Korea. |
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| Crowdsourcing |
| Can a million people join forces to solve a problem? |
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| Google acts to fix YouTube flaw |
| YouTube is targeted by hackers who used the site to bombard people with fake pop-up messages and redirect them to adult sites. |
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| Lady Gaga sets Facebook record |
| The chart-topping pop star has become the first living person to get 10 million fans on social networking site Facebook. |
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| Personal touch |
| Touchscreens could soon allow you to feel virtual objects |
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| Personal touch |
| Touchscreens could soon allow you to feel virtual objects |
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| Russian freighter docks in space |
| An unmanned Russian cargo ship docks successfully with the International Space Station, two days after an attempt failed. |
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| 'Dark age' fears |
| Will the Tories turn back the clock on school technology? |
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| Vibrating gloves and air puffs - plans for a car for blind drivers |
| US scientists aim present a prototype car for blind drivers in 2011, using sensors to indicate turns in the road via vibrating gloves. |
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| Apple admits iPhone signal fault |
| Apple says a significant fault on its new iPhone 4 is causing it to incorrectly display the phone's signal. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Rise of the robots, coding kids and pirates ahoy |
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| dot.Rory |
| As the Times wall goes up, will people pay to read it? |
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| Times now charging online readers |
| The Times becomes the biggest UK newspaper to begin charging its readers to access its online content. |
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| Secret messages |
| How the ancient art of hidden writing got a modern twist |
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| Google moves into travel market |
| Google pays $700m for travel technology firm that provides flight price and travel data across the globe. |
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| Classic computers at retro festival |
| Click's LJ Rich reminisces with 2,000 retro-computing fans at Britain's first Vintage Computer Festival. |
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| Mobile ads "poor" says Three boss |
| The head of mobile phone company Three says the industry needs to improve its marketing, especially for broadband. |
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| Google block |
| How Turks react to internet censorship in their country |
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| Tech Brief |
| London train data overload, and iPhone lawsuits |
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| US cracks down on online piracy |
| US officials shut down nine websites accused of offering free access to films, including Toy Story 3. |
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| Facebook tightens up on user data |
| The social network rolls out changes to its site in its continuing efforts to appease critics of its privacy practices. |
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| Microsoft pulls plug on Kin phone to focus on Windows Phone 7 |
| Less than three months after unveiling a "social media" phone with great fanfare, Microsoft has cancelled the Kin's European launch. |
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| 'Robofish' accepted by wild fish |
| Scientists create a remote controlled "robofish" that sticklebacks accept as one of their own. |
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| Tuning out |
| How dangerous is it to walk, talk and listen? |
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| Hackers target XP support system |
| Windows XP users are urged to take care as hi-tech criminals target the operating system's help and support system. |
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| Three-legged dogs aid robot study |
| Scientists have filmed and studied three-legged dogs walking on treadmills in a bid to develop robot-building strategies. |
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| Finns 'legal right' to broadband |
| Finland has become the first country to make broadband with a speed of 1Mbps a legal right for every citizen. |
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| EU data roaming bill limits start |
| EU protection to prevent mobile phone and computer users running up large data bills while travelling comes into force. |
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| Paedophiles 'turn to webcams' |
| Paedophiles are increasingly accessing indecent images of children from webcams, child protection experts say. |
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| Sony Vaio laptop in mass 'recall' |
| Authorities in the US have instructed Sony to conduct a recall of its Vaio laptops, after reports of overheating. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Some security flaws, plus an IT pioneer honoured |
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| iPhone man comes home to Staffs |
| One of America's most successful designers has toured the JCB factory in Staffordshire - just miles from where he was raised. |
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| 3D TV |
| The future may be 3D, but how do we get there? |
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| Access all |
| Tech companies are more aware of disability needs |
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| Court questions net pirate hunt |
| A US civil liberties group will give evidence in an attempt to throw out thousands of lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers. |
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| Formula One in carbon-cuts drive |
| The high-octane sport is on track to curb its carbon emissions by 15% over three years, with radical engine changes mooted. |
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| Two million more Britons online |
| The new net audience in the UK is largely made up of over-50s, research from the UK Online Measurement Company finds. |
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| Open University's iTunes record |
| The Open University is claiming a world record for the number of iTunes downloads - as the first to reach 20 million. |
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| Google in 'new approach' on China |
| Google announces a "new approach" in China as it battles with Beijing over the censorship of internet search results. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Microsoft blueprints leaked, and how to hold phones |
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| PM backs calls for goal-line tech |
| David Cameron and ball-tracking firms say England's disallowed World Cup goal underlines the need for goal-line technology. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Apple rapped by Germany, plus a visual hearing aid |
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| Earth's gravity pictured in 'HD' |
| The European Goce satellite returns a remarkable high-definition view of how gravity varies across the Earth. |
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| China gets own-character domains |
| Chinese people should soon find it easier to browse the web as domain names written in Chinese win approval. |
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| Pirate Bay founding body disbands |
| The group that gave rise to the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has disbanded, following the death of one of its founders. |
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| Goal-line firms urge Fifa rethink |
| Makers of ball-tracking systems insist England's disallowed World Cup goal shows the need for goal-line technology. |
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| dot.Rory |
| My dog and I try out video on an iPhone |
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| Sky Sports available on BT Vision |
| BT and Sky sign a deal that will allow BT Vision customers to watch Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. |
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| Start-up stories |
| What PayPal co-founder Max Levchin did next |
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| Start-up stories |
| How Mike Lynch went from start-up to tech giant |
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| 3D mission returns first pictures |
| Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, sent into orbit to make the most precise 3D map of the Earth's surface, acquires its first images. |
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| Net gains |
| Hi-tech helps tennis fans keep up with the action |
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| Pakistan in web 'blasphemy' hunt |
| Pakistan is to monitor seven leading websites including Google and Yahoo for content it considers offensive to Muslims. |
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| Dead wrong |
| Bill Thompson scotches rumours of his demise |
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| Tech Brief |
| Power, privacy and how to cope with cosmic rays |
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| Doctor download |
| How smartphones can help diagnose your ailments |
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| Can someone download a doctor? |
| Afridoctor offers personal medical advice and emergency distress service via mobile phone. |
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| Government axes costly websites |
| The UK government hopes to save millions of pounds by closing expensive department websites, says the Cabinet Office. |
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| BBC Trust approves Project Canvas |
| The BBC is given the go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV. |
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| Sex domain gets official approval |
| The overseer of the internet's addressing system has backed the creation of a .xxx domain for explicit material. |
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| Apple advises on holding iPhone |
| Apple has issued advice to iPhone 4 owners about how to hold their handset to avoid losing signal strength. |
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| Users report "fault" on iPhone 4 |
| Users report reception problems with Apple's new iPhone 4. |
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| 'Horse-boy' on Google Street View |
| Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen. |
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| Gaiman wins children's book prize |
| Writer Neil Gaiman wins prestigious children's fiction prize the Carnegie Medal for his fantasy tale The Graveyard Book. |
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| Unlimited smartphone data withers |
| The launch of Apple's iPhone 4 coincides with the end of unlimited data plans from UK mobile phone networks. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Google maps, bad apps and when it sucks to be you |
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| Tech specs confuse gadget buyers |
| Complicated jargon and figures are misleading shoppers looking for gadgets says a Which? report. |
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| Virgin Media looks to fast future |
| Virgin Media is gearing up for speeds up to 400Mbps and planning to reach one million new customers. |
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| iPhone 4 launch attracts crowds |
| Hundreds of people queued outside Apple's flagship store for the launch of the iPhone 4. |
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| Google wins Viacom copyright case |
| Google wins a landmark copyright ruling after a judge throws out a $1bn lawsuit brought by Viacom against its YouTube service. |
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| England match triggers net surge |
| Millions are expected to watch the crucial England match via the web as BBC hosts its biggest live streaming event ever. |
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| England match triggers net surge |
| Millions are expected to watch the crucial England match via the web as BBC hosts its biggest live streaming event ever. |
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| Electric dreams |
| Homemade nuclear fusion concocted in Brooklyn |
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| Electric dreams |
| Homemade nuclear fusion concocted in Brooklyn |
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| City passes phone radiation law |
| San Francisco has become the first US city to require mobile phone retailers to post radiation levels next to handsets they sell. |
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| City passes phone radiation law |
| San Francisco has become the first US city to require mobile phone retailers to post radiation levels next to handsets they sell. |
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| UK police to investigate Google |
| The UK police will investigate Google as part of an increasing number of investigations over its data breaches. |
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| UK police to investigate Google |
| The UK police will investigate Google as part of an increasing number of investigations over its data breaches. |
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| US pirate hunters target movies |
| A US group set up to pursue illegal file-sharers has had its methods questioned by civil rights groups |
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| dot.Rory |
| Games industry anger at losing out on tax relief |
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| dot.Rory |
| Games industry anger at losing out on tax relief |
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| dot.Rory |
| The World Cup: The internet gets through |
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| dot.Rory |
| Bonfire of the government websites |
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| Government drops broadband tax |
| There will be no broadband tax to fund super-fast networks to rural areas, the chancellor has confirmed. |
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| No tax breaks for gaming industry |
| The chancellor has revoked tax breaks for the gaming industry despite appeals by leaders in the sector. |
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| Google faces multi-state US probe |
| Connecticut will lead a multi-state investigation of Google into the "accidental" collection of wi-fi data. |
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| Boy detained for Facebook murder |
| A 16-year-old boy is detained for 14 years for killing a former best friend after the pair traded insults on Facebook. |
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| Wikileaks makes contact with US |
| Whistleblowing website Wikileaks contacts the US government over its investigation into an alleged source within the US army. |
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| Stoppard fear for 'printed page' |
| Playwright Tom Stoppard fears that reading and literature are being swept away by new technologies. |
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| US state studies 'digital plates' |
| California considers allowing advert-broadcasting digital number plates on cars in a bid to raise money for the cash-strapped state. |
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| Kenya starts to register mobiles |
| Kenya begins registering all mobile phone numbers in a bid to cut crime, with unregistered numbers to be cut off at the end of July. |
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| Black Eyed Peas set downloads record |
| Black Eyed Peas single I Gotta Feeling is the first music single downloaded more than a million times. |
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| Nintendo expresses currency fears |
| Nintendo boss says continuing currency market fluctuations are making it difficult to estimate its profits. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Dell mulls Google Chrome, and an iPhone record deal. |
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| Tech Brief |
| The new way of texting and will Kinect take off? |
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| Tech Brief |
| Vuvuzelas, e-readers and invisible phones |
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| Tech Brief |
| Vuvuzelas, e-readers and invisible phones |
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| Hi-Def heroes |
| Make-up artists and others on adapting to HDTV challenges. |
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| Modern medals |
| Why Medal of Honour has moved to the present day |
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| Sonic branding |
| Selling products with just five musical notes. |
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| Vintage computers celebrated at Bletchley Park computer festival |
| More than 2000 retro-computing fans descended on Bletchley Park for Britain's first Vintage Computer Festival. |
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| French quiz Google on wi-fi data |
| An early look at wi-fi data 'accidentally' gathered by Google in 30 countries suggests it contains sensitive information. |
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| Click fit |
| Can hi-tech help us get healthier? |
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| IT gets a Royal seal of approval |
| One of the world's newest industries is given a rare Royal Charter at a ceremony steeped in arcane ritual at St Paul's Cathedral. |
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| Mexican rumble: fighters battle for place on box |
| A new game based on Mexican wrestling traditions launches at E3. |
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| Death by Twitter |
| Execution in US announced by a tweet. |
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| Fighting back against web attacks |
| The tools which hi-tech criminals use to attack websites can themselves be attacked, suggests research. |
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| FCC to toughen internet rules |
| Web giants and broadband providers are scrapping over plans to change the way the net is regulated in the US. |
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| Hospital to use robot 'workers' |
| A hospital in Scotland is to become the first in the UK to use a fleet of robots to carry out day-to-day tasks. |
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| Getty taps into Flickr snappers |
| Flickr users are getting the chance to make money out of their snaps as the site signs a deal with the Getty photo library. |
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| AOL offloads Bebo after two years |
| Internet company AOL sells Bebo, the social networking site it bought two years ago for $850m, to a private investment firm. |
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| O2 investigates network problems |
| Mobile phone operator O2 confirms issues with its 3G network in parts of southern England. |
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| Landline contract fees to be cut |
| The three big landline telephone firms - BT, Talk Talk and Virgin - agreed to make big cuts to the cost of ending their deals early. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Ads on Twitter, ads at home and iPads returned |
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| Cyber-war |
| Can countries protect themselves from net threats? |
|
| dot.Rory |
| Games industry's attempts to make money online |
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| Japan firms agree mobile merger |
| Japanese electronic groups Toshiba and Fujitsu announce their intention to merge their mobile phone businesses. |
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| Video game veteran gets overhaul |
| Better wars and more influential hi-tech are promised in the fifth incarnation of nation sim Civilization. |
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| San Francisco to pass phone radiation law |
| San Francisco is set to be the first US city to require mobile phone retailers to post radiation levels next to handsets they sell. |
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| Mini-camera captures Japanese solar sail cruising in orbit |
| A small free-floating camera returns images of Japan's solar sail, Ikaros, in flight. |
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| Sony shows off PlayStation in 3D |
| Sony has been talking up the benefits of 3D gaming at a press briefing at the E3 gaming show in Los Angeles. |
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| dot.Rory |
| Has Nintendo come up with another console winner? |
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| Fading data could improve privacy |
| By making personal data 'fade' over time it could be possible to improve privacy online, according to new research. |
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| Nintendo unveils 3D game gadget |
| Nintendo reveals a revamped DS handheld that displays 3D images that can be seen without special glasses. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Apple's donation policy, plus the future of typing |
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| Tech Brief |
| Digital graffiti, robot lights and Google's house hunt |
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| Party games |
| Eminem and Rihanna headline gaming shindig |
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| Microsoft slims down Xbox console |
| The firm launches a slimmer, more powerful Xbox 360 console ahead of the E3 video games convention in Los Angeles. |
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| Drastic measure |
| Could a bomb seal off the Gulf of Mexico oil leak? |
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| Worldwide release for Office 2010 |
| The consumer launch of Microsoft's Office 2010 has seen the software go on sale around the world. |
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| Wikipedia unlocks divisive pages |
| The online encyclopaedia says it has taken an "important step" towards opening up some of its most controversial articles. |
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| Tighter security controls for net |
| Technology comes on stream to safeguard the web's address system and make it harder for criminals to create fake sites. |
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| Red Hat man |
| Opening up software... and now books |
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| '$100 laptop' targets older class |
| One Laptop per Child redesigns its low-cost PC, designed for primary school pupils in the developing world, for use by older children. |
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| Tech Brief |
| A solar powered bulb, and how NOT to get an iPad |
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| dot.Rory |
| This Christmas, will gamers Kinect or Move? |
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| Microsoft unveils Xbox 'Kinect' |
| Microsoft reveals details of its hands-free motion control system for the Xbox 360 console, which it has rebranded Kinect. |
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| ITV HD viewers miss England goal |
| ITV apologises to its HD channel viewers after a "transmission problem" caused them to miss England's first World Cup goal. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Fraud by AI and a virtual festival in Middle Earth. |
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| Japan unfurls solar sail in space |
| Japanese scientists celebrate the successful deployment of their solar sail Ikaros. |
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| Mamma Mia! It's the voice of Mario, Luigi and Wario |
| Charles Martinet provides the voices for some of Nintendo's best loved characters, including Mario, Luigi, and Wario. |
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| See here |
| Why humans can be bad at spotting big changes |
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| Fantasy fix |
| Neil Gaiman on stories, Twitter and... Duran Duran |
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| US debates its broadband future |
| Plans to boost broadband speeds in the US face a threat from 'powerful interests' warns a federal agency. |
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| People power |
| Citizen websites are re-writing local democracy rules |
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| Adobe fixes 'critical' Flash flaw |
| Adobe has fixed a security flaw that had the potential to allow hackers to take control of affected computer systems. |
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| 'Threat' to porn site visitors |
| The economics of the online porn industry make it ripe for exploitation by hi-tech criminals, a study suggests. |
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| Reply pledge to old e-petitions |
| Downing Street says it will now respond to e-petitions sent to the previous Labour government. |
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| Last chance to comment on policy |
| Just a few hours remain to comment on the coalition government's policy programme on the Cabinet Office website. |
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| O2 network scraps unlimited data |
| The mobile network scraps unlimited data for smartphones, a move that is likely to be followed by other firms, say analysts. |
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| dot.Rory |
| An end to the mobile data explosion? |
|
| Tech Brief |
| Apple ups ad ante, and Second Life lays off workers |
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| Fame academy |
| How to cope when the world watches everything you do |
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| Fix found for iPad e-mail 'flaw' |
| US phone firm AT&T scramble to fix a flaw in its site that revealed the e-mail addresses of at least 114,000 Apple iPad users. |
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| Google accused of criminal intent |
| The search firm will likely face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, says Privacy International. |
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| Top prize for Swiss solar pioneer |
| The inventor of a low-cost solar cell that could create electricity generating windows has won the Millennium Technology Prize. |
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| Hi-tech kit allows students to sit exams at home |
| New technology with anti-cheating software could allow students to take exams anywhere, even in their own bedrooms. |
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| Stopping the spill |
| Using a nuclear bomb and other ideas from readers |
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| Tech Brief |
| Google overhauls its search with a shot of Caffeine |
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| Bill Gates gives Haiti mobile aid |
| The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launches a fund to help create mobile phone based banking services in Haiti. |
|
| dot.Maggie |
| 'Oil disaster', 'oil spill': BP cleans up in search terms |
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| Chips and pixels |
| Old-school games inspire new artists and musicians |
|
| Wikileaks site unfazed by arrest |
| Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says that the detention of an alleged source by the US military does not compromise its work. |
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| Government lays out fast net plan |
| The government may legislate to open up the ducts of utlity companies as part of its plans for a new fast network for the UK. |
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| Tech Brief |
| The end of the web and speed ticket revenge |
|
| China defends internet censorship |
| Officials explain why the authorities censor the internet in a white paper outlining China's policies governing the web. |
|
| dot.Maggie |
| iPhone 4: Apple tries to put genie back in the bottle |
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| Inmarsat grabs engineering prize |
| The UK's top engineering prize - the MacRobert award - is awarded to Inmarsat for its global broadband satellite network. |
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| Laser tech could sense explosives |
| A team of UK scientists say they have developed laser technology that could be used to detect landmines and hidden bombs. |
|
| Apple shows off redesigned iPhone |
| Apple boss Steve Jobs unveils a redesign of the firm's popular iPhone handset at an event in San Francisco. |
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| Tech Brief |
| The bleak, lonely world of the virtual wood cutter |
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| US intelligence analyst arrested |
| A US military analyst is arrested on suspicion of leaking combat video and thousands of classified documents. |
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| Tough choices |
| Hacker explains why he revealed 'Wikileaks source' |
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| Adobe acknowledges critical flaw |
| Adobe is rushing to fix a bug in its popular programs that, if exploited, could hand control of a computer to hackers. |
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| Yahoo unveils deal with Facebook |
| Social giants Yahoo and Facebook sign a deal that will see them share more information across their sites. |
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| dot.Rory |
| Google beware: The librarians are getting cross |
|
| dot.Rory |
| As mobiles get more features can networks cope? |
|
| dot.Rory |
| The UK: The West Ham of global broadband league |
|
| iPhone factory raises pay again |
| A Taiwanese firm hit by a spate of suicides raises employee salaries in China for the second time in less than a week. |
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| Australia orders probe of Google |
| Australia orders an investigation of Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service. |
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| Bangladesh lifts Facebook block |
| Bangladesh unblocks Facebook after officials say the website agreed to remove caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. |
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| Broken wings |
| An encounter with hi-tech thieves |
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| Bletchley Park texts to go online |
| Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, are set to be digitised and made available online. |
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| Playing Doctor |
| Why the Time Lord was tricky to put in a computer game |
|
| Tech Brief |
| Mighty mobiles and why BitTorrent is back. |
|
| Net agenda |
| Bill Thompson looks over Europe's net priorities |
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| Building the Networked World |
| Europe's digital agenda - open software, fast broadband and an end to digital divisions. |
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| Film wars |
| The scrap over showing video on the web |
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| Fifa video game comes to Facebook |
| Fifa franchise chooses Facebook over consoles for its latest launch, available exclusively on the social network site. |
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| Smart clothes offer emotional aid |
| Textiles that monitor stress levels and take action to calm their wearers have been developed by researchers. |
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| Easyjet trials volcanic ash radar |
| Budget airline Easyjet says it will be the first carrier to trial a system that allows planes to fly round ash clouds. |
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| Google close to handing over data |
| The search giant says it is close to resolving issues that prevented it from passing data it gathered to German authorities. |
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| Payable to... |
| Murdoch's forgotten effort to pay for the net... by cheque |
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| Play pays |
| Inside the world of the professional video gamer |
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| Open rival to Facebook gets start-up cash pile |
| Four students in New York raise more than $200,000 to build an open alternative to the popualr social network Facebook. |
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| Click to chat |
| The online adviser - coming to a screen near you |
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| Facebook clickjack prank spreads |
| Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have been caught out by a mischievous attack, says security experts. |
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| Dynamo power to recharge handsets |
| Finnish phone giant Nokia introduces a dynamo-powered charger aimed at mobile phone owners in the developing world. |
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| Flying high |
| Can kites meet the world's energy needs? |
|
| Tech Brief |
| Nigerian scammers scammed, and a lego brick printer |
|
| Tech Brief |
| Wii in your trainers and a pole in your smart skirt |
|
| dot.Rory |
| Skype on the move: Do mobile calls finally add up? |
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| Taking the tablets |
| How Taiwan's Acer is preparing to counter the iPad |
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| Apple boss defends iPhone factory |
| Steve Jobs defends conditions at an electronics manufacturer producing Apple products, following a spate of suicides. |
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| Huge order for Iridium spacecraft |
| The mobile satellite services provider Iridium orders 81 spacecraft to upgrade its global network in a $2.9bn deal. |
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| Hurt Locker makers to sue pirates |
| The producers of The Hurt Locker appoint a legal firm to send letters to 5,000 people suspected of illegally sharing the film. |
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| Thieves strike in virtual world |
| Police raid homes in five cities across Finland, looking for evidence of furniture thefts from the virtual world of Habbo Hotel. |
|
| What do badwolf, bestmurder and bigginspanto have in common? |
| The BBC has disclosed a list of web addresses it has registered for programmes. |
|
| Tech Brief |
| Dim futures and how to break the Universe |
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| Photo call |
| Your Facebook photo. Tell us why you picked it |
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| Hewlett-Packard to cut 9,000 jobs |
| Hewlett-Packard is to shed 9,000 jobs worldwide as it creates fully-automated commercial data centres. |
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| Computing power |
| The world's fastest supercomputers in graphics |
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| China pushes supercomputer power |
| China ramps up efforts to become a supercomputing superpower, as one of its machines is ranked second fastest in the world. |
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| Code call |
| Open source software gains ground in Africa |
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| Waxing lyrical |
| Can we build a phonograph to play a wax cylinder? |
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| Pakistani court restores Facebook |
| A Pakistani court orders the authorities to restore the Facebook social networking site after it was blocked. |
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| Bangladesh 'blocks Facebook' site |
| Bangladesh temporarily blocks Facebook over satirical images of the Prophet Muhammad and the country's leaders, reports say. |
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| 'Space laser tech needed' on ash |
| Europe requires space-borne laser instruments that can provide information on volcanic ash clouds, a conference hears. |
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| Bill of rights |
| Who pays for calls made when your phone is stolen? |
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| Lost memories |
| Research reveals data degrades on discs |
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| Ofcom unveils anti-piracy policy |
| The regulator unveils a draft code of practice for ISPs that will require them to keep lists of customers who illegally file-share. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Batman, Babyberry and the return of the AC/DC debate |
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| 'Ultimate CCTV' |
| Intelligent surveillance to spot potential terrorists |
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| Google miss wi-fi data deadline |
| Google has refused to hand over sensitive wi-fi data it says it collected accidentally, despite requests from German authorities. |
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| 'Sat nav' for brain surgery hope |
| The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh launches a drive to buy equipment dubbed the "sat nav" of brain surgery. |
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| Mobile scammers target telephone numbers in the Antarctic |
| Hi-tech thieves booby-trap a mobile game so that it dials telephone numbers for the Antarctic to wring cash out of victims. |
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| Porn ban mulled by South Africa |
| A South African government official proposes a complete ban on pornography across the internet, mobiles and television. |
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| Mobile money |
| How mobile phone banking is closing the poverty gap |
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| Apple iPad tablet on sale in UK |
| The Apple iPad is going on sale in the UK, after one million were sold in the first 28 days after its launch in the US. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Porn shame, game dreams and the cars of Doom |
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| Facebook changes are 'not enough' |
| Privacy experts say the simplified settings are a good start but more is needed. |
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| Spycams aim to thwart terrorists |
| Defence scientists at Porton Down test new sensor technologies which my help to disrupt terrorist activities. |
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| Loving the card |
| Why some people will miss the ID card when it is gone |
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| ID card scheme 'axed in 100 days' |
| The ID card scheme will be scrapped by September with existing cards no longer valid, the home secretary announces. |
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| Pakistan eases curbs on YouTube |
| Pakistan partially unblocks the YouTube website, but about 500 links to "blasphemous content" remain barred, officials say. |
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| Resurrecting Victorian technology |
| The release of an album on wax cylinder inspired us to try to make a phonograph to play it. |
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| Apple now bigger than Microsoft |
| The latest share price changes have pushed the total value of Apple past its rival Microsoft for the first time since 1989. |
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| Facebook reveals privacy changes |
| Social network Facebook says it will offer a "one simple control" privacy setting in response to user concerns. |
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| Old mobiles 'could be worth cash' |
| Some 85 million mobile phones have been discarded rather than traded in for cash, a UK consumer group says. |
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| Google faces German data deadline |
| Google has not yet handed over sensitive wi-fi data it collected, despite being requested by German authorities by 26 May. |
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| Scientist 'infected by PC virus' |
| A British scientist who has implanted a chip under his skin claims to be the first man to become infected with a PC virus. |
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| iPlayer debuts social functions |
| The BBC launches a revamp of its iPlayer that allows people to share content via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. |
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| Facebook confirms privacy revamp |
| The social network confirms that it will roll out simpler privacy settings in response to complaints from users. |
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| EU says telecoms 'too fragmented' |
| Businesses and consumers across the EU are plagued by high prices because of inconsistent application of EU telecoms rules, the European Commission says. |
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| Big Irish crackdown on net piracy |
| Eircom customers who illegally dowload content could be cut off from the net permanently as the ISP begins its piracy crackdown. |
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| 'Zombie-sat' prompts space waltz |
| Two spacecraft are set for an unusual orbital dance to try to evade interference from a failed satellite. |
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| Google Pac-Man eats up 'millions of hours' of work time |
| The Pac-Man game on Google's search page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study. |
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| Spaceman |
| Will America notice 'zombie' satellite's space dance? |
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| Dell enters the tablet PC market |
| PC giant Dell launches its Streak tablet and joins an increasing number of firms offering mobile touchscreen devices. |
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| No funds for web science insitute |
| A new web science institute set up by Sir Tim Berners Lee in March is one of the victims of government cuts. |
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| Chip errors boost computer power |
| Silicon chips that are allowed to make mistakes could help ensure computers continue to get more powerful, say researchers. |
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| Times websites redesign unveiled |
| Details of plans by the Times and Sunday Times newspapers to charge for access to their websites in June are announced. |
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| dot.Rory |
| Times paywall: Great experiment under way |
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| R U lonesome 2nite? Survey says tech-savvy young feel loneliest |
| Loneliness is more prevalent among the social-networking younger generation than in older people, a UK survey suggests. |
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| Tony Blair in green advisory role |
| Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to join Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures as an adviser. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Twitter's big bang and phone films fizzle on Flash |
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| Twit alert |
| The perils and pitfalls of using Twitter |
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| Speechless |
| Why instant messaging has gone out of fashion |
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| dot.Rory |
| Becta: Does the IT in schools quango deserve to die? |
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| Atomic transistor sets the pace |
| Researchers show off a transistor made from just seven atoms that could be used to create smaller, more powerful computers. |
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| Facebook chief's privacy pledge |
| Social network founder Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence to pledge simpler privacy controls for users "as soon as possible". |
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| Digital exclusion |
| The 20-somethings who are only just using computers |
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| Bryant's Australia |
| Tempers lost as minister takes on 'creepy' Google |
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| Death duties |
| When you die, what happens to your online life? |
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| New death at Taiwan iPhone firm |
| An employee falls to his death at Taiwan iPhone maker Foxconn, the ninth suicide at the firm this year. |
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| Strike out |
| Bloggers are hitting back in YouTube copyright row |
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| Red Dead development - a chat with the game's creator |
| One of the developers of the much-hyped new game, Red Dead Redemption, answers your questions. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Back to the future for Starcraft II and data genomes |
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| 'Rogue' internet firm shut down |
| A net firm that actively 'colluded' with many net criminal groups has been dismantled by US authorities. |
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| Rivals line-up against Facebook |
| The furore over Facebook's privacy policy has breathed new life into a range of projects aiming to develop alternatives. |
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| Google launches smart TV service |
| The search giant joins with Intel, Sony and Logitech to launch a TV service that unites broadcast and web content. |
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| Adobe unveils Flash for mobiles |
| Google has become the first phone maker to back the latest version of Adobe's Flash software. |
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| Tech Brief |
| Digital faux pas and when it's OK to talk to teddy |
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| Licence fee 'to fund broadband' |
| The government says it could use the licence fee to part-fund broadband roll-out, as it appoints a new broadband minister. |
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| Artificial butterflies take to the air |
| In a bid to find out more about butterflies, researchers have created an artificial swallowtail, which can fly. |
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| Web furore |
| Pakistanis divided over government internet crackdown |
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| Pakistan blocks access to YouTube |
| Pakistan blocks YouTube, a day after barring access to Facebook in a row over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. |
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| Europe offers big boost for net |
| The EU lays out its five-year plan to increase broadband speeds across Europe and ensure universal access by 2013. |
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| Silver surfers |
| The net is not just for the young, says Bill Thompson |
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| The net is not just for the young |
| The net is not just for the young, says Bill Thompson |
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| Chipmakers fined for price-fixing |
| Nine electronics firms receive fines totalling 331m euros for illegally fixing the price of chips used in personal computers. |
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| Smartphones take world by storm |
| Mobile phone sales rise 17%, as sales of smartphones have increased almost 50% year-on-year, the latest research shows. |
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| Yahoo aims to bolster local news |
| Web giant snaps up a local news specialist, aiming to create more content on subjects its users care about. |
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| Facebook mulls u-turn on privacy |
| The social network suggests it could simplify its privacy settings soon, following widespread condemnation of its changes. |
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| British internet use 'exploding' |
| British web users now spend more than 22 hours online, 65% more time than they did three years ago, a survey reveals. |
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