Euro MPs warn of UN net control

22 November 2012 Last updated at 13:26 ET The UN should not be allowed to take over control of the internet, Euro MPs have warned. International governments are set to agree a new information and communications treaty next month. Reports in...

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Hi-tech desk 'boosts maths'

23 November 2012 Last updated at 06:39 ET Interactive hi-tech desks could help boost the maths skills of primary school pupils, researchers have said. The multi-touch, multi-user interactive 'smart' desks were designed, built and tested by...

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Court row over US pupil tracker

23 November 2012 Last updated at 06:59 ET A court challenge has delayed plans to expel a Texan student for refusing to wear a radio tag that tracked her movements. Religious reasons led Andrea Hernandez to stop wearing the tag that revealed...

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Trust lacking in comparison sites

23 November 2012 Last updated at 07:23 ET Consumers' lack of trust in some price comparison websites means that they miss out on potential savings, a regulator has said. A previous study by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said that consumers...

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Time-lapse code wins Pi contest

23 November 2012 Last updated at 07:42 ET Software that turns a Raspberry Pi computer into a time-lapse camera has won a contest for teenage programmers. PySnap was written by 12-year-old Aaron Hill and took first prize in the 13 and under...

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Microsoft looks at smart glasses

23 November 2012 Last updated at 07:57 ET Work on digital glasses that overlay information on top of the user's view of the world has been carried out by Microsoft. A patent applied for by the US tech firm describes how the eyewear could be...

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Bug inspires self-filling bottle

23 November 2012 Last updated at 10:46 ET A US start-up has turned to nature to help bring water to arid areas by drawing moisture from the air. NBD Nano aims to mimic the way a beetle survives in an African desert to create a self-filling...

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Saudi women 'monitored by SMS'

23 November 2012 Last updated at 12:31 ET A discovery that Saudi male guardians are automatically getting text messages about cross-border movements of female dependants has caused a Twitter uproar. "Hello Taliban, herewith some tips from the...

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Games firm cuts workforce by 75%

24 November 2012 Last updated at 06:09 ET A Derbyshire computer games company is shedding 150 jobs from its 200-strong workforce after a steep decline in sales. Eurocom, in Mackworth, has designed a series of games including ones featuring James...

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Gangnam Style 'most viewed video'

24 November 2012 Last updated at 20:35 ET Gangnam Style, the dance track by South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, has become YouTube's most-watched video of all time. It has notched up more than 808m views since it was posted in July. The video...

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Nasa acts to tackle lost laptops

15 November 2012 Last updated at 09:09 ET US space agency Nasa has ordered that the data on all its laptops must be encrypted, after losing another one of its portable computers. Until the process is complete, it has forbidden staff from removing...

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Google TVs to get gaming service

15 November 2012 Last updated at 10:18 ET The OnLive gaming service is to be made available to Google TV users, following a deal with electronics firm LG. One of a handful of firms making hardware for Google TV. LG's G2 series sets have Google's...

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Hi-tech school kit 'lying unused'

16 November 2012 Last updated at 03:57 ET By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter Costly digital technology that has the power to transform education often sits in boxes because teachers do not know how best to use it, a study claims. ...

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Spotify nets Coca-Cola cash

16 November 2012 Last updated at 04:24 ET Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service, has attracted fresh investment from Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs and Fidelity. The $100m (£63m) of new money gives Spotify a valuation of about $3bn. But the...

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Rat heart cells power 'bio-bots'

16 November 2012 Last updated at 05:53 ET Tiny biological robots that walk to the beat of a thin sheet of rat heart cells have been created by US scientists. The "bio-bots" were fabricated using a 3D printer and then seeded with the cardiac...

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Data jam threat to UK networks

16 November 2012 Last updated at 07:36 ET Steps need to be taken now to head off a looming "capacity crunch" on the UK's mobile networks, says regulator Ofcom. As more people use broadband-connected smartphones and tablets, the amount of data...

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Hackers attack Israeli websites

16 November 2012 Last updated at 08:13 ET Hacking group Anonymous has launched a series of cyber attacks against websites in Israel. Data bombardments briefly knocked some sites offline and led to others being defaced with pro-Palestinian messages....

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Verizon chokes pirates' bandwidth

16 November 2012 Last updated at 11:10 ET US net firm Verizon has declared war on illegal downloaders, or pirates, who use technologies such as BitTorrent to steal copyrighted material. Verizon has said it will first warn repeat offenders by...

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Help wanted on porn piracy cases

16 November 2012 Last updated at 11:32 ET A digital rights group is seeking financial help to stop an adult film-maker contacting Britons suspected of pirating pornographic movies. The Digital Rights Group has applied to intervene in a legal...

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Warning over hidden customer data

16 November 2012 Last updated at 18:47 ET The UK government has repeated its threat to legislate if businesses do not voluntarily release data gathered on customers who ask to see it. An initiative called Midata calls on firms to provide details...

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Credit card has built-in keyboard

8 November 2012 Last updated at 06:22 ET A credit card with an LCD display and built-in keyboard has been launched in Singapore by Mastercard. The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a "one-time password" - doing away...

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Bid to block ad-skipping TV fails

8 November 2012 Last updated at 09:38 ET A bid to block a TV service that allows viewers to automatically skip adverts on recorded shows has been rejected. Fox had called for a preliminary injunction on Dish Network's Autohop ahead of a copyright...

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Twitter resets 'hacked' passwords

8 November 2012 Last updated at 12:48 ET Thousands of Twitter users have received emails warning their account has been compromised by a third party. Some accounts had been compromised, but other users had received the emails after Twitter...

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Bin Laden unit punished for leak

8 November 2012 Last updated at 23:40 ET Seven US Navy Seals have been disciplined for revealing secrets during work as paid consultants on a video game, officials say. They received reprimand letters and had half of their pay docked for two...

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Armchair auditors 'don't exist'

9 November 2012 Last updated at 04:10 ET By Brian Wheeler Political reporter, BBC News Ministers were "naive" to believe an army of "brilliant people" would spring up to analyse raw spending data for them, a think tank chief says. The coalition...

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Microsoft demos speech translator

9 November 2012 Last updated at 06:10 ET Software that can translate spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly has been demonstrated by Microsoft. The software preserves intonation and cadence so the translated speech still sounds...

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US finance staff in data blunder

9 November 2012 Last updated at 07:04 ET The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has spent $200,000 (£125,190) investigating security blunders made by staff. The SEC, which oversees US financial markets, was forced to investigate when...

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US army builds its own 3D printer

9 November 2012 Last updated at 07:52 ET The US military is developing its own 3D printer that it can use to produce spare parts for spacecraft. By putting 3D printers behind the front line it hopes to be able to produce spares more cheaply...

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Space net used to control robot

9 November 2012 Last updated at 09:33 ET The interplanetary internet has been used by an astronaut at the International Space Station (ISS) to send commands to a robot on Earth. The experimental technology, called Disruption-Tolerant Networking...

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Apple and HTC settle patent cases

11 November 2012 Last updated at 06:01 ET Apple and Taiwanese phonemaker HTC have settled all their outstanding disputes over patents, ending a fight that began in March 2010. The two firms also signed a 10-year licence agreement that will...

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Russia blacklist law takes effect

31 October 2012 Last updated at 20:06 ET A law that aims to protect children from harmful internet content by allowing the government to take sites offline has taken effect in Russia. The authorities are now able to blacklist and force offline...

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Dotcom reveals Mega download site

1 November 2012 Last updated at 07:04 ET Kim Dotcom has announced plans for Mega, a service to replace his shut down file-sharing website Megaupload. Mega is expected to use encryption methods which will mean only users will know what they...

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Man beats robot car on race track

1 November 2012 Last updated at 08:26 ET A race between a robot car and a human has ended with a win for the humans - but only just. The race was run on Thunderhill Raceway in California between an Audi TTS that can drive itself and a racing...

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Apple slammed over Samsung notice

1 November 2012 Last updated at 10:39 ET Apple has 48 hours to re-write a statement on its website relating to its design rights dispute with Samsung, UK judges have ruled. Apple was forced on 18 October to publish a message making it clear...

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Comet to go into administration

1 November 2012 Last updated at 12:26 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Dan Wagner, Powa Technologies: "They failed to leverage their physical presence... ten years ago" About 6,500 retail jobs are...

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Huge fine for sharing pornography

2 November 2012 Last updated at 06:33 ET An American man has been hit with a $1.5m (£932,000) fine for pirating 10 gay porn movies via BitTorrent. A federal court in Illinois awarded the damages of $150,000 per movie to Flava Works - the creator...

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