Nintendo game copiers ‘illegal’

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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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Google cleared of wi-fi snooping

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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

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Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.

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Amazon offers new look UK Kindle

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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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Call for clarity in broadband ads

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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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State of global internet revealed

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Asian countries top the charts when it comes to internet speeds, according to a global survey by network giant Akamai.

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Botnet hacker caught in Slovenia

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One of the hackers behind a computer virus that infected nearly 13m computers has been tracked down by international authorities.

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Facebook reveals murder suspect

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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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Long wait for StarCraft II ends

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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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UK ‘misled’ on broadband speeds

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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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US hits out at Afghan war leaks

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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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BlackBerrys pose ’security risk’

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The United Arab Emirates says that it is considering restrictions on BlackBerry phones, as they pose a “national security risk”.

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Cyber security specialists sought

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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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BBC News iPhone app is launched

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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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Neurons ’show way for computers’

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Futuristic computers that learn to see and listen could result from research into the ways nerve cells communicate.

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Microsoft gets at chip blueprints

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Software giant Microsoft has signed a deal to get access to blueprints for the mobile chips designed by Arm.

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UK nanotech centres ‘may be axed’

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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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India shows $35 ‘iPad’ prototype

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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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Windows 7 boosts Microsoft profit

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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

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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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Google pressed on wi-fi snooping

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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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Apple profits ahead of forecasts

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Profit figures from Apple soar past Wall Street forecasts, boosted by sales of Mac computers and the iPad tablet.

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Facebook hits 500m user milestone

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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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Google images top 1bn page views

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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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Blogs closed over terror threats

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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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Apple offers free iPhone 4 cases

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Apple will offer a free case to every owner of its iPhone 4, following complaints of reception problems.

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Helping children help themselves

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Work with computers and slum children in India may have given rise to a novel teaching method.

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Software ‘cuts rail delays’ in EU

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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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