Google Fiber connects Kansas City

14 November 2012 Last updated at 07:42 ET Google has begun to connect US homes in Kansas City to super-fast broadband, offering residents speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second). People living in the "fibrehood" area of Hanover Heights are...

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Enigma tops its auction estimate

14 November 2012 Last updated at 09:37 ET A rare Enigma encoding machine has sold at auction in London for £85,250. That is more than its £40,000-£60,000 estimate, but less than the £131,180 price an Enigma sold for last year. The typewriter-like...

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YouView embroiled in name dispute

14 November 2012 Last updated at 14:20 ET UK internet TV provider YouView has become embroiled in a trademark dispute with a Cheltenham-based tech firm. The High Court in London has upheld an earlier ruling that the TV platform's name was "confusingly...

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Israel and Hamas in Twitter war

15 November 2012 Last updated at 09:24 ET The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas have opened a new front in the propaganda war, via Twitter. On Wednesday, the IDF began live-tweeting and blogging about its current...

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John McAfee denies Belize murder

14 November 2012 Last updated at 18:35 ET The founder of the anti-virus software firm McAfee has denied murdering one of his neighbours in Belize. John McAfee said he did not kill fellow American Gregory Faull, who was found shot dead on Sunday...

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India 2G auction short of target

14 November 2012 Last updated at 22:57 ET India's latest auction of mobile phone licences has fallen flat, raising less than a quarter of the money the government had targeted. The auction for second-generation (2G) mobile phone licences raised...

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UK leads civilian drones charge

15 November 2012 Last updated at 02:47 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News The "Pandora's box" of unmanned aircraft in the UK has been opened, according to the Astraea consortium. Yet many technology and ethics issues...

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Regulator targets online shopping

15 November 2012 Last updated at 07:56 ET UK regulators have begun seeking information on how firms may be monitoring online shoppers in order to target them with different prices. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will consider how consumer...

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Firm finds TV-recycling process

15 November 2012 Last updated at 09:05 ET A Kent firm has found a way of tackling the growing mountain of unrecyclable leaded glass from old-style TVs. Sweeep Kuusakoski is recycling glass from more than 4,000 cathode ray TVs each day, and...

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Nasa acts to tackle lost laptops

15 November 2012 Last updated at 09:09 ET US space agency Nasa has ordered that the data on all its laptops must be encrypted, after losing another one of its portable computers. Until the process is complete, it has forbidden staff from removing...

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