EA forced to remove gun shop links

27 December 2012 Last updated at 07:06 ET Links to browse and buy real weapons featured in popular war-based video game Medal of Honor have been removed from the title's website. It followed pressure from groups suggesting that video games...

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'Boxing Day record' for web retail

27 December 2012 Last updated at 11:09 ET By Kevin Peachey Personal finance reporter, BBC News Record numbers visited UK retail websites on Boxing Day, with analysts suggesting shoppers are also using the internet to identify bargains. Information...

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Porn producer to widen piracy blitz

27 December 2012 Last updated at 11:56 ET A pornographic film-maker has revealed plans to chase more internet users for compensation for pirating others' adult movies. The move follows a Court of Appeal ruling which overturned a previous block...

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Africa gets 'homegrown' smartphone

27 December 2012 Last updated at 12:02 ET A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have beenlaunched. The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China. His company...

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Apple gets China copyright fine

28 December 2012 Last updated at 00:23 ET A court in China has ordered Apple to pay compensation to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights. They had claimed that unlicensed electronic versions of their books...

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Bug reveals 'erased' Snapchat videos

28 December 2012 Last updated at 06:00 ET Videos sent via smartphone app Snapchat - which should disappear after a few seconds - can be preserved with easy to find tools. Snapchat has proved popular as it deletes sensitive or risque photos...

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Microsoft research boss steps down

28 December 2012 Last updated at 07:08 ET Microsoft's research boss Craig Mundie is stepping down ahead of his retirement in 2014. A 20-year veteran of the company Mr Mundie has overseen the work of Microsoft's security programme and R&D....

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China tightens rules on internet

28 December 2012 Last updated at 07:58 ET China has tightened its rules on internet usage to enforce a previous requirement that users fully identify themselves to service providers. The move is part of a package of measures which state-run...

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Wikipedia's most searched revealed

28 December 2012 Last updated at 08:50 ET A study of 2012's most read Wikipedia articles reveals striking differences in what proved popular across the different language versions of the online encyclopaedia. Facebook topped the English edition...

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Tech visionaries make honours List

28 December 2012 Last updated at 19:00 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Video games legend Ian Livingstone, Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox and Imagination Technologies' boss Hossein Yassaie all feature in the New Year Honours...

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EU accuses Samsung of patent abuse

21 December 2012 Last updated at 14:29 ET EU competition regulators probing Samsung's patent litigation tactics believe the firm has abused its position. The European Commission's "preliminary view" follows the South Korean firm's efforts to...

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Law relaxed on digital copying

20 December 2012 Last updated at 10:33 ET Making digital copies of music, films and other copyrighted material for personal use is to be made legal for the first time under government plans. It has previously been illegal in the UK to rip songs...

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Online games purge sex offenders

21 December 2012 Last updated at 05:55 ET Hundreds of accounts for online games used by registered sex offenders have been shut down in the US. More than 2,100 gaming accounts were closed as part of Operation: Game Over run by New York's attorney...

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Nokia drops Blackberry ban threat

21 December 2012 Last updated at 06:11 ET Nokia has struck a patent licensing deal with Research In Motion, ending the Finnish company's effort to ban Blackberry handsets from sale. Nokia had asked courts in the US, UK and Canada to take action...

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Facebook tests paid-for messaging

21 December 2012 Last updated at 06:20 ET Facebook has begun a trial which allows users to pay $1 to send messages direct to people who are not their friends. The fee will mean messages go straight to a recipient's inbox rather than the Other...

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Backlash prompts Instagram U-turn

21 December 2012 Last updated at 08:10 ET Photo-sharing social network Instagram has officially abandoned attempts to change its terms and conditions following a fierce user backlash. Users reacted angrily to proposals that suggested uploaded...

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Google trio win sentence appeal

21 December 2012 Last updated at 08:47 ET An Italian court has overturned the conviction of three Google executives found guilty of breaking Italian law by allowing a video of a bullied teenager to be posted online. The clip was uploaded in...

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Boeing uses potatoes to test wi-fi

21 December 2012 Last updated at 09:57 ET US planemaker Boeing used an unusual substitute for passengers to test its in-flight wi-fi system - potatoes. Passenger seats on a decommissioned plane were loaded with huge sacks of the tubers for...

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Steve Jobs' super-yacht impounded

21 December 2012 Last updated at 12:29 ET Venus, the minimalist high-tech yacht commissioned by the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, has become embroiled in a row over a disputed bill. French designer Philippe Starck claims Mr Jobs' heirs still...

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Gangnam Style hits one billion views

21 December 2012 Last updated at 14:38 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC's Rory Cellan Jones on the Gangnam phenomenon Gangnam Style has become the first video to clock up more than one billion...

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Google Maps app returns to iPhone

12 December 2012 Last updated at 23:19 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Google has released its Maps app for the iPhone, in the wake of complaints about Apple's software. Apple controversially replaced the search giant's mapping service...

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Europe ends probe over e-books

13 December 2012 Last updated at 07:29 ET The European Commission has ended an investigation into price-fixing by major e-book publishers after they pledged to keep the market competitive. The Commission said commitments by five publishers,...

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Scientists call for Turing pardon

14 December 2012 Last updated at 04:21 ET Some of Britain's leading scientists have called on the government to grant a posthumous pardon to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after acknowledging...

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UK arrests over 'ransomware' scam

14 December 2012 Last updated at 06:01 ET Three Britons have been arrested on suspicion of distributing malicious software known as "ransomware". The program they are alleged to have used made victims believe their web browsing habits were...

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Demo plan to aid god game project

14 December 2012 Last updated at 07:21 ET A struggling video game project on crowdsourced funding website Kickstarter is planning to release a demo to drum up support for its pitch. Project Godus launched on 21 November seeking £450,000 in...

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'Stalking apps' face ban in US

14 December 2012 Last updated at 07:24 ET A US politician campaigning for tighter restrictions on location tracking via mobile devices has had his bill approved by a Senate committee. The Location Privacy Protection Act would require firms...

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US will not sign UN 'net treaty'

14 December 2012 Last updated at 07:50 ET The US, Canada, Australia and UK have refused to sign an international communications treaty at an conference in Dubai. The countries had objected to calls for all states to have equal rights to the...

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No UK charges for Gary McKinnon

14 December 2012 Last updated at 12:12 ET Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, whose extradition to the US was blocked, will not face charges in the UK, bringing to an end a 10-year legal battle. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC said...

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Automatic net porn block rejected

15 December 2012 Last updated at 09:10 ET Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported. A public consultation found 35% of parents wanted an...

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Wind farm impact to be examined

15 December 2012 Last updated at 10:20 ET By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News The developer behind a planned offshore wind farm on the south coast of England says it will look to see how it can "mitigate" the concerns of campaigners....

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