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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the launch of Microsoft Windows 8 in October 2012

Rhodri Marsden: Windows 8 U-turn based on nagging fear users will desert Microsoft for Apple

Millions have downloaded utilities to bring back some traditional lements of Windows

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi may become target as hackers launch Burma campaign

The “hacktivist” group Anonymous has said its next internet campaign is aimed at protecting Burma’s Muslim community, which has faced mounting attacks and the threat of ethnic cleansing over the past year.

Steve Ballmer: The boss who bet his company on Windows 8 – and lost as computer giant announces 'biggest product U-turn since New Coke'

Updated version of operating system will take into account complaints made by users as decision to overhaul the much-maligned operating system has put Bill Gates’s successor under pressure

Yout Tube is set to announce it will start charging for some video content

YouTube set to charge for watching some videos

YouTube is set to announce within a few weeks a series of channels that will require payment, an industry source has revealed.

Google Doodle celebrates Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard 'the father of existentialism'

Kierkegaard's work encompasses, philosophy, psychology, literary criticism, fiction and theology

RoboBee: Harvard University scientists have released video of a penny-sized flying robot, based on the body of a fly

Video: Harvard scientists film flying robot inspired by a fly

Scientists at Harvard University have released this video of a penny-sized flying robot, based on the body of a fly.

New 'career-saving' Twitter service corrects inaccurate tweets before they go viral

Twitter users who send inaccurate tweets and then find their lack of wisdom is going viral now have a chance to close the stable door.

Google's Eric Schmidt says Youtube has already overtaken traditional TV

'That's already happened': Google's Eric Schmidt says Youtube has already overtaken traditional TV

The video-hosting website recently claimed 1 billion unique visitors a month

Game over: Developers Patrick (left) and Daniel Klug

The pair making online pirates pay

In a bid to stop people downloading their new title for free, the Klug brothers created a version of their Game Dev Tycoon game that would virtually bankrupt anyone who tried it. Jamie Merrill reports

Facebook agrees to ban clips showing decapitation following public pressure

Facebook has bowed to public pressure and agreed to ban clips showing people being decapitated after its stubborn refusal to do so was criticised by its own safety advisory board.

Some shocking content depicting animals being hurt is deliberately listed as something benign

Children lured to watch animal cruelty online

Violent internet film postings often disguised to lure in innocent youngsters, survey says

Scientists say they want to preserve the web page for future generations

Cern recreates the first ever web page (so did it catch on?)

It is the physics centre that flings particles together at near light speed and stands at the forefront of what is technologically possible today. But now, in a throwback to its illustrious past, researchers at Cern in Switzerland are revisiting its creation of the world wide web and reproducing the first ever web page.

Google Glasses will make suggestions based on what you’re seeing

Google is listening (and watching): First, futuristic specs. Next up it's Google Now, a voice-control service to sock it to Siri

Simon Usborne tries out Google Now - and finds the more it knows about you, the smarter it is

Google Glass: First images taken on Google's new glasses appear on Twitter

The first pictures taken using Google’s revolutionary glasses have been revealed to the world.

The app, designed by the British firm Redact could become the latest asset in the world of espionage

James Bond-style Redact Secure Messenger: app that can wipe sent messages from receiver's phone could help British spies

British firm in bid to get the UK government's GCHQ to give its first-ever approval to an off-the-shelf smartphone app

 
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