Game of Thrones tops TV piracy chart

24 December 2012 Last updated at 07:56 ET Game of Thrones has emerged as the most-pirated TV show over the internet this year, according to news site Torrentfreak's latest annual survey. It said one episode of the series had racked up 4,280,000...

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Child abuse Twitter accounts closed

24 December 2012 Last updated at 08:10 ET Several private Twitter accounts have been disabled after they were revealed to contain indecent images of children. Some hacking groups are claiming to have unmasked them, the NSPCC said. Members...

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Iran 'fends off new cyber attack'

25 December 2012 Last updated at 10:19 ET A power plant and other industries in southern Iran have been targeted by the Stuxnet computer worm, an Iranian civil defence official says. But the cyber attack has been successfully rebuffed and prevented...

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China opens longest bullet route

25 December 2012 Last updated at 20:24 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC's Matthew Stadlen looks ahead to the high speed line's launch China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed...

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Samsung seeks US ban on Ericsson

26 December 2012 Last updated at 21:59 ET Samsung Electronics has sought a ban on the import and sales of some Ericsson products in the US which it claims infringe its patents. In a complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission...

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Graphene research gets £21.5m fund

27 December 2012 Last updated at 03:22 ET The Chancellor, George Osborne, has outlined plans to boost development of the "super-material" graphene. It is one of the lightest, strongest and most conductive materials known, with great commercialisation...

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US chipmaker faces huge patent fine

27 December 2012 Last updated at 06:51 ET US chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university...

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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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Huge rise in social media 'crimes'

27 December 2012 Last updated at 07:54 ET The number of alleged crimes involving Facebook and Twitter has increased nearly eight-fold in four years, according to police figures. There were 653 people charged in 2012 out of 4,908 offences reported...

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China opens GPS-substitute to public

27 December 2012 Last updated at 09:41 ET China has opened up its domestic sat-nav network to commercial use across the Asia-Pacific region. Beidou - named after the Chinese word for the Big Dipper constellation - offers an alternative to the...

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Instagram denies photo selling

18 December 2012 Last updated at 19:20 ET Facebook's photo-sharing service Instagram has moved to deny that it has changed its privacy policy to give it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification. It said instead that...

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Pirate Bay proxy gets shut down

19 December 2012 Last updated at 09:20 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News A proxy service allowing access to banned piracy website The Pirate Bay has been shut down after legal threats from the music industry. Minor political group...

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RFU trials ref-cam this weekend

The Rugby Football Union is trialling a "ref-cam" during the televised Championship game between Newcastle Falcons and London Scottish on Sunday. Match official Matt Carley will have a camera attached to his shirt to show close-ups of on-the-field action....

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Bankrupt Kodak gets $525m lifeline

19 December 2012 Last updated at 12:11 ET Eastman Kodak has sold its digital imaging patents to a consortium of bidders, which includes Google and Apple, for $525m (£322m). Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees led by Intellectual Ventures...

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Military satellite heads skyward

19 December 2012 Last updated at 17:29 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News A powerful new telecommunications satellite for the UK military has blasted into orbit. The five-tonne Skynet-5D platform was sent up on an Ariane rocket...

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Players drive zombie game offline

20 December 2012 Last updated at 05:47 ET A zombie-themed video game has been removed from the Steam online store after a series of player complaints. Gamers complained on Steam chat forums that The War Z lacked features promised in promotional...

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Apple faces 'pinch-to-zoom' review

20 December 2012 Last updated at 06:29 ET Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" patent should not have been awarded, according to a preliminary ruling by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The innovation was at one of six patents at the heart of...

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Firm pulls 3D gun-parts print plans

20 December 2012 Last updated at 06:56 ET 3D printing firm MakerBot has pulled a collection of blueprints for gun parts from its website in the wake of last week's Sandy Hook mass school shooting. Users were notified by lawyers that the software...

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Ofcom names 4G auction bidders

20 December 2012 Last updated at 07:17 ET Seven bidders for the auction of bandwidth for 4G mobile broadband services have been named by Ofcom. The bidders are Everything Everywhere, BT, Vodafone, O2 and Three, as well as Hong Kong conglomerate...

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Wireless car phone charging in 2013

20 December 2012 Last updated at 07:37 ET Charging your smartphone while driving could soon be a simple process needing no cables or adaptors, but using a special wireless mat. Toyota plans to introduce the system for mobile devices in 2013...

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Phone has second e-paper screen

12 December 2012 Last updated at 08:23 ET A smartphone with two screens - one of which uses e-ink technology - has been announced by a Russian company. Yota says having an added low-power screen will help users keep across social network updates...

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London bus fares go contactless

12 December 2012 Last updated at 12:00 ET London buses are to start accepting contactless payments from Thursday. Passengers on the city's 8,500 vehicles will be able to buy tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by an NFC (near...

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UK 'nation of internet shoppers'

12 December 2012 Last updated at 19:53 ET Internet shopping is more popular in the UK than in any other major country, a survey from regulator Ofcom suggests. Consumers in the UK spend an average of £1,083 a year on internet shopping, compared...

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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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ONS website under fire from MPs

13 December 2012 Last updated at 04:00 ET By Ed Lowther Political reporter, BBC News The official website for communicating public data in the UK is "terrible" and a "disaster", MPs have told the man responsible for the service. Andrew Dilnot,...

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Deported McAfee lands back in US

13 December 2012 Last updated at 04:35 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. John McAfee told reporters his "next step is to rest", as Daniela Ritorto reports The software tycoon John McAfee has arrived...

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Leveson blogs and tweets warning

13 December 2012 Last updated at 04:54 ET The law should be enforced against tweeters and bloggers to avoid a drop in mainstream journalistic standards, Lord Justice Leveson has said. In a speech in Australia, he said there was a "pernicious...

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Paperless tickets 'not practical'

By Amelia ButterlyNewsbeat reporter Radiohead experienced problems with paperless ticketing earlier this year Paperless tickets could help combat touts but many venues still do not have the capabilities to support them, say independent music promoters....

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