Yahoo in recycled email privacy row

26 September 2013 Last updated at 07:33 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter Yahoo email addresses reassigned to a new owner are receiving personal emails intended for the previous owner. One man told news site Information Week that he...

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Taxpayers 'ripped off' on broadband

26 September 2013 Last updated at 08:00 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter The taxpayer is being "ripped off" over the cost of rolling out broadband to rural areas of the UK, MPs have said. The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

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Gates calls Ctrl+Alt+Del a mistake

26 September 2013 Last updated at 10:50 ET Bill Gates has described the decision to use Ctrl+Alt+Del as the command needed to log on to a PC as a mistake. Originally designed to trigger a reboot of a PC, it survives in the Windows 8 operating...

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Google reveals new search upgrade

26 September 2013 Last updated at 18:21 ET By Richard Taylor North America Technology Correspondent Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Google search expert Amit Singhal outlines his vision Google...

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Electronic Arts cans football game

27 September 2013 Last updated at 06:42 ET Electronic Arts, the US games maker, says it is cancelling its college football game next year amid legal disputes over players' image rights. The company said it was "evaluating our plan for the future...

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Miss Teen USA webcam hacker charged

A 19-year-old student has been charged with hacking Miss Teen USA's webcam. Jader James Abrahams is charged with trying to blackmail Cassidy Wolf into sending him nude photos. He surrendered to FBI agents and faces up to two years in prison, said...

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Blackberry loss after sales slump

27 September 2013 Last updated at 09:48 ET Blackberry has reported a second quarter net loss of $965m (£600m) following a slump in sales. The company warned investors last week that it would report a loss of up to a billion dollars, due to...

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Microsoft boss cries at send-off

27 September 2013 Last updated at 09:54 ET Departing Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has hosted his last company meeting - bidding a tearful farewell to employees he has worked with for 33 years. The 57-year-old danced to Michael Jackson's Wanna...

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Yelp says quarter of reviews 'fake'

27 September 2013 Last updated at 12:03 ET Yelp, the online directory and consumer review site, says a quarter of the reviews it receives could be fake, as businesses increasingly attempt to skew consumers' opinions. Its automated review filter...

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Valve reveals haptic game controller

27 September 2013 Last updated at 14:32 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Games developer and publisher Valve has shown off its Steam Controller, the final part of its strategy to bring its PC-based platform to the living room. ...

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Weibo anger 'shared faster than joy'

20 September 2013 Last updated at 04:55 ET By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News Anger spreads faster online than other emotions such as joy, scientists say. A team analysed the word choice and emoticons of people's posts on the...

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Google revamps logo and search page

19 September 2013 Last updated at 18:23 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Google has begun rolling out a redesign of its homepage - the world's most visited web address. The revamp features a flattened, reshaped logo and replaces the previous...

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Cyber-blackmailers 'abuse hundreds'

20 September 2013 Last updated at 07:22 ET Hundreds of British children are being blackmailed into performing sex acts online, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has warned. Abusers posing online as children talk victims into...

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RSA in NSA algorithm link warning

20 September 2013 Last updated at 07:28 ET RSA, the internet security firm, has warned customers not to use one of its own encryption algorithms after fears it can be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory note to...

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Stephen Elop to receive $25m pay-off

20 September 2013 Last updated at 07:37 ET Former Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop, will receive a $25.4m (£16m) pay-off when Microsoft's deal to buy Nokia's handset business goes through. Under the deal, Mr Elop will receive 18 months of...

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Eight held over £1.3m bank heist

20 September 2013 Last updated at 08:42 ET Eight men have been arrested in connection with a £1.3m theft by a gang who took control of a Barclays Bank computer. The money was transferred from the branch in Swiss Cottage in north London in April,...

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Vigilante case sex abuser jailed

20 September 2013 Last updated at 12:09 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Video filmed by Letzgo Hunting showed them confronting James Stone A child abuser from Nottingham who was confronted by anti-paedophile...

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Microsoft boss admits phone failings

20 September 2013 Last updated at 13:05 ET Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, who has announced he will be stepping down, admitted his company was too slow to react to the smartphone era. The chief executive was talking to an audience of Wall Street...

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Apple fingerprint ID security fears

20 September 2013 Last updated at 13:28 ET A senior US senator believes the fingerprint recognition technology featured in Apple's new iPhone 5S raises "substantial privacy questions". Senator Al Franken, chairman of the influential Senate...

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Blackberry to cut 4,500 global jobs

20 September 2013 Last updated at 17:43 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC's Michelle Fleury says Blackberry "was once a pioneer" in the smart phone field Blackberry has announced it is planning...

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Wave power pistons bag Dyson award

12 September 2013 Last updated at 17:02 ET By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News A wave power generator that can harvest energy no matter which way the sea is running has won the UK round of James Dyson's engineering award. The Renewable...

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Samsung backs 64-bit smartphones

12 September 2013 Last updated at 19:01 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Samsung has confirmed its next high-end smartphones will feature 64-bit processors. The announcement follows the launch of the iPhone 5S, the first handset to include...

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Audio pioneer Ray Dolby dies aged 80

12 September 2013 Last updated at 19:59 ET Ray Dolby, the US engineer who founded Dolby Laboratories and pioneered noise reduction in audio recordings, has died in San Francisco aged 80. Mr Dolby had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several...

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Twitter plans stock market listing

13 September 2013 Last updated at 06:34 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Rory Cellan-Jones reports on Twitters rise to the stock market Twitter says it plans to join the stock market in the most...

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Google Street View car in 'accident'

13 September 2013 Last updated at 08:47 ET By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News A Google Street View car hit two public transport buses and a truck in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. Police said the car driver hit the first bus, appeared...

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'Cyber plot' to steal from Santander

13 September 2013 Last updated at 09:02 ET Twelve men have been arrested over an "audacious" alleged plot to steal millions of pounds from a bank by remotely taking control of a computer. A bogus engineer fitted a device called a keyboard video...

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UK pirates face copyright crackdown

13 September 2013 Last updated at 10:28 ET Criminals making money from copyright theft are facing a crackdown in the UK. The City of London Police launched a unit on Friday dedicated to pursuing serious intellectual property crime. Detectives...

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British Gas online services back up

13 September 2013 Last updated at 11:32 ET Customers of British Gas were unable to log on to their accounts online to pay bills or submit meter readings for several hours on Friday. A link on the company's website to its official blog also...

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Microsoft offers $200 for used iPads

13 September 2013 Last updated at 13:32 ET Microsoft has launched a US marketing offer for people to exchange "gently used" iPads for Microsoft products such as Surface tablets. The company is offering at least a $200 token to go towards products...

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Argentine teenage 'superhacker' held

13 September 2013 Last updated at 19:33 ET Police in Argentina have arrested a 19-year-old man accused of heading a gang of hackers who targeted international money transfer and gambling websites. Dubbed "the superhacker", the teenager was...

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Shops and cafes fight US patent trolls

30 August 2013 Last updated at 09:03 ET The Internet Association is among a group of US trade bodies behind a new campaign calling for politicians to take action over patent trolls. Patent trolls take out generalised patents, often on widely...

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Google exec poached by Chinese rival

29 August 2013 Last updated at 08:35 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News One of Google's top executives is leaving the company to join up-and-coming Chinese firm Xiaomi. Hugo Barra was vice president of product management for Google's...

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