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Facebook says no to CEOP panic button
News Despite a positive meeting with Home Secretary Alan Johnson, the social network has ruled out introducing a panic button on user homepages.
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FTC member slams 'irresponsible' Google over Buzz launch
News Tech firms are increasingly ignoring privacy concerns in how the handle consumer data when launching new products, an FTC administrator has claimed.
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O2 condemns 'bullying' law firms for threatening
News ACS:Law has come under renewed attack for its 'threatening' letters to owners of computers identified as involved in illegal downloading.
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App market will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012
News Third-party app store GetJar says app downloads will nearly double annually for the next three years to nearly 50 billion downloads a year.
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Report: Macs cost less to run than Windows PCs
News A new survey of IT professionals in enterprise-size organisations shows the majority find Macs cheaper than PCs despite their high initial cost.
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IDC: PC market to see double-digit growth
News The rise of portable PCs has seen the market return to growth faster than expected following last year's recession, though revenues will take longer to recover.
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Facebook topples Google as most visited site on the web
News For the first time in three years, a name other than Google has sat on top of Hitwise's weekly website rankings in the US.
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Google Street View slammed as 'a service for burglars'
News It may have reached near-universal coverage in the UK, but the majority of us appear to still have major objections to Google Street View.
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Apple shifts 120,000 iPads on first day on sale
News With nearly a month still to go before any devices are actually sent out, Apple has racked up an estimated $75 million in iPad pre-orders.
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US hits out at China's web censorship
News Tensions between Washington and Beijing have flared over US claim that China's increasingly strict control over internet access violates human rights.
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Android eating into Windows Mobile's market share
News The latest figures for the US smartphone market reveal Microsoft has lost 20 per cent of its users in just three months, with most having moved over to Android.
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Nokia patents self-charging battery concept
News Piezoelectricity and kinetic energy combine to create a way to charge a phone's battery without going anywhere near the mains.
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Card fraud drops as criminals switch to online banking
News Credit and debit card fraud fell by 19 per cent in 2009, its first drop since 2006.
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Vodafone to axe 375 staff in latest cost-cutting move
News The mobile operator is pressing ahead with workforce cuts as part of a £1 billion streamlining initiative.
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Enterprise version of Chrome OS coming in 2011
News A Google software engineer has revealed that a business-focused version of Chrome with 'more management muscle' will join its consumer counterpart next year.
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Ballmer: Microsoft 'all in' on cloud strategy
News Microsoft's chief executive tells the world the entire company is now focused on the cloud.
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Government willing to retailate over cyber attacks
News With reports revealing that the UK suffered around 300 significant cyber attacks in the past year, evidence is mounting that the attacks are the work of foreign states.
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Windows Phone 7 Series won't run WinMo apps
News Microsoft's all-new mobile OS will be a clean break, but WinMo 6.5 will still be actively supported for a long time to come, a Microsoft employee has blogged.
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Web access is 'a basic human right'
News A new survey conducted in 26 countries around the world reveals four out of five people believe internet access to be a right, not a privilege.
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Microsoft Tag reader comes to Android
News Barcode scanner app marks Microsoft's first ever foray into the Android Market in response to 'huge demand' for mobile barcoding.
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Google: Desktop PC will die off in three years
News The rise of smartphones and the cloud will render traditional desk-based computers all but obsolete within three years, claims Google Europe boss.
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Mobile surfing now more popular than reading
News The latest figures from a Europe-wide study show we now spend more time using mobile internet than reading newspapers or magazines.
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Microsoft accused of favouring 'IE clones'
News A web designer has complained to the European Commission that four of the seven secondary browser choices are no more than rebadged IE clones.
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UK consumers waste £52 billion on unused gadgets
News New survey shows our appetite for spending money on new technology isn't matched by our willingness to learn how to use it.
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