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Efforts to combat cybercrime concentrate on enhanced security, but intercepting the kids drawn into its web might prove better Whenever William Hague, our esteemed foreign secretary, speaks on the subject of cyberspace, what comes to mind is Dr Johnson's celebrated comment about seeing a dog walking on its hind legs: one is surprised, not that the thing is done well, but that it is done

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Figures from Kantar ComTech show how dramatically Android has risen to prominence - but what does that mean for rival contenders such as Nokia, Apple and RIM? In just 18 months, Android has come from nowhere to become the mobile OS powering just under half of all smartphones sold in the UK – and half the people owning a mobile phone in the UK have a smartphone. In the process it has

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'Silicon Valley is a little short-term focused and that bothers me,' says founder of social networking site Mark Zuckerberg knows that this time next year Facebook will be a public company, or preparing itself for a blockbuster public offering. In a rare interview this weekend, the 27-year-old founder of the social networking site spoke candidly about culture, commitment and clingers-on at

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 Senior lawyers warns that litigation is natural outcome of intense competition in fast-growing field – but that Google is taking advantage of others' efforts One of Microsoft's most senior lawyers has accused Google's Android software of "standing on the shoulders" of companies such as his own in the smartphone wars, and that the flurry of patent lawsuits going on between

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The arc of Steve Jobs's life is the stuff of legends, but his new biography forces us to stare at the realities of the actual man Let me jump to the conclusion: This is an extraordinary book on many levels. It's informative, entertaining often, insightful, sympathetic but not indulgent; it rises to its unusual subject and manages to render its complexity in a straightforward manner that

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US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police British police authorities ordered the removal of 135 videos from YouTube in the first half of this year because of a perceived threat to national security, according to figures published by the video sharing website's owner Google. The US technology giant reported a 71% rise in content

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Internet giant might put money into takeover that would give it huge share of US search business Google is considering providing the finance for the acquisition of Yahoo by another company or group of companies – potentially putting it into direct opposition in a bidding war with search engine rival Microsoft. The shadow manoeuvring to bid for Yahoo, which fired Carol Bartz, its chief

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Social network will be audited by Irish data protection commissioner after Austrian law student registers 22 complaints Facebook could face a fine of up to €100,000 (£87,000) after an Austrian law student discovered the social networking site held 1,200 pages of personal data about him, much of which he had deleted. Max Schrems, 24, decided to ask Facebook for a copy of his data in June after

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The Nokia 800, the Ace and the Sabre, all of which use Microsoft Windows Phone, will launch at London trade show Nokia, the world's biggest phone manufacturer by volume, is getting ready to unveil three smartphone handsets at its annual trade show in London next week, according to leaked details. The Finnish group has seen worldwide smartphone sales collapse this year after ceding

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Illustrator worked on a number of children's books and contributed to films Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland Google has honoured Mary Blair, an artist whose unusual style was immortalised in classic Walt Disney films of the 1940s and 50s, with its latest Google doodle. Blair, who was born in Oklahoma on 21 October 1911, was best known for the artwork she contributed to animations

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Strength of Office suite bolsters sales as slow PC growth and thinning margins leave analysts seeking next hit - though losses reduce at Bing search division Microsoft posted record revenues up 11% to $17.37bn in its first fiscal quarter, but operating profits rose by just 1% to $7.2bn as its Windows, Server and Entertainment & Devices businesses showed slow growth. Those results

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Experts suspect Duqu worm is from same source that targeted Iran's nuclear facilities - widely said to have been US and Israel A highly sophisticated computer worm which has many of the same characteristics of the virus used to attack Iran's nuclear programme has been discovered targeting companies in Europe. Although the virus appears to have been spying on the systems it infiltrates -

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The only worry is that Microsoft has delivered this lovely Windows operating system a little too late Steve Jobs famously criticised Microsoft for having no taste and no culture. Windows Phone 7.5, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system for mobile phones, is a revolutionary product for its parent company because it has both in spades. The worry is that Microsoft has delivered

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Device will show off 'Ice Cream Sandwich' OS in launch by company now reckoned to be world's biggest handset vendor (updated) Samsung and Google are to launch the Nexus Prime phone to showcase the latest version of the Android mobile operating system, "Ice Cream Sandwich", in Hong Kong late on Tuesday night. The phone is expected to be released in the UK within the next four weeks, in

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Xbox 360; £49.99; cert 3+; Turn 10/Microsoft Microsoft always wanted its Forza Motorsport franchise to be its answer to Sony's revered Gran Turismo but, while its technological prowess has always been conspicuous, it always seemed a bit, well, corporate in comparison. It had the cars, the tracks and the graphics, but somehow lacked the indefinable spark

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Research in Motion says smartphone customers hit by last week's outages will be able to download apps for free Millions of people whose BlackBerry smartphones were affected by last week's outages will be compensated with $100 (£63) worth of apps from the company's app store. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) said yesterday that each of the affected customers would be able to

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Executives gather at Stanford University to celebrate life of Apple founder, who died of pancreatic cancer recently Some of Silicon Valley's top executives were set to gather at Stanford university on Sunday evening to celebrate the life and genius of the Apple founder Steve Jobs. Fittingly perhaps for a memorial of a man who was notoriously secretive, the precise location of the event

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Dutch electronics group to axe thousands of jobs globally after 85% plunge in profits Philips Electronics said it will cut 4,500 jobs as it reported an 85% slump in third-quarter net profit on higher restructuring and raw material costs. Dutch group Philips – the world's biggest lighting maker, a top three hospital equipment maker, and Europe's biggest consumer electronics producer –

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Survey outside London's Regent Street store shows would-be buyers aren't that displeased by RIM's problems Here's some cause for celebration at the headquarters of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which suffered its worst-ever outage this week: if there had never been an iPhone, a third of the people who today bought Apple's new iPhone 4S at its Regent Street store in London say they would

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Search giant cut its tax bill by $1bn a year by funnelling profits to subsidiaries with low tax rates US tax authorities are investigating the strategies used by Google to cut its tax bill by about $1bn (£635m) a year by funnelling profits from the US and Europe to subsidiaries with low tax rates. The Internal Revenue Service has requested information from Google about its offshore deals

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Temporary injunction granted until South Korean electronics company resolves legal dispute with Apple An Australian court has temporarily banned Samsung from selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in the country, another setback for the South Korean electronics company in a global patent battle with Apple that accuses it of slavishly copying the iPad and iPhone. Federal court justice

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Latest round in global battle over intellectual property goes to US company as judge grants preliminary injunction An Australian court has temporarily banned Samsung from selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in the country, another setback for the South Korean electronics giant in a global patent battle with Apple, which accuses it of slavishly copying the iPad and iPhone. Federal

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Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment accounts targeted in latest attack Up to 93,000 accounts have been compromised in a fresh attack on Sony's online servers, following an attack earlier this year that saw the company's PlayStation Network taken offline. According to the official PlayStation blog, attempts were made to access data held on the Sony

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Stop motion animator came up with clay figure who had a 35-year run on television Google has celebrated the 90th birthday of the stop motion animation pioneer Arthur "Art" Clokey in its latest Google doodle. Detroit-born Clokey, who died in 2010, was best known for Gumby, a clay figure and star of the Gumby Show, which ran for 35 years from November 1955. Interest in the characters was

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Apology from RIM's UK managing director as BlackBerry disruption enters third day from problems at Slough centre Engineers are working "day and night" to try to fix the problem with BlackBerry services which are entering their third day of outages, the UK and Ireland managing director has said. Stephen Bates told the BlackBerry Innovation Forum in London on Wednesday morning that staff

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