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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.
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.
No “significant” personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.
Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.
The majority of people using broadband are not getting the speed they are paying for, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests.
Asian countries top the charts when it comes to internet speeds, according to a global survey by network giant Akamai.
One of the hackers behind a computer virus that infected nearly 13m computers has been tracked down by international authorities.
Police in the Philippines use Facebook to find and arrest a suspect in the murder of nine people, including three foreigners.
The long awaited real-time-strategy game StarCraft II has gone on sale, 12 years after the popular first edition was released.
The majority of people using broadband are not getting the speed they are paying for, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests.
Washington condemns as “irresponsible” the release by Wikileaks website of 90,000 secret US military records about the conflict in Afghanistan.
The United Arab Emirates says that it is considering restrictions on BlackBerry phones, as they pose a “national security risk”.
A national competition is kicked off to find people who will help defend the UK against the rising tide of cyber crime.
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.
Futuristic computers that learn to see and listen could result from research into the ways nerve cells communicate.
Software giant Microsoft has signed a deal to get access to blueprints for the mobile chips designed by Arm.
Britain’s 24 nanotechnology centres could be among the casualties of cuts to the UK science budget, science minister David Willetts has said.
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.
Microsoft reports a sharp rise in quarterly profits to $4.52bn as sales of the Windows 7 operating system top 175 million.
A flaw in software widely used to power online discussion sites could allow hackers to harvest personal data, the BBC learns.
The names of the Google engineers who wrote the code that scooped up data from wi-fi networks are being demanded by US states.
Profit figures from Apple soar past Wall Street forecasts, boosted by sales of Mac computers and the iPad tablet.
The social network says it now has more than half a billion registered users, after adding 100m in the last six months.
For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words – it is worth one billion page views a day, claims the firm.
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.
Apple will offer a free case to every owner of its iPhone 4, following complaints of reception problems.
Work with computers and slum children in India may have given rise to a novel teaching method.
More trains are running on time in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland thanks to new technology to manage schedules, the EU says.