Chinese 'pirate search engine' shuts

2 January 2013 Last updated at 08:43 ET Gougou.com, one of China's most notorious pirate content search engines, has been shut down. It follows the site being added to a US blacklist. The site was run by Chinese web firm Xunlei, which had...

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Sony stops making PlayStation 2

31 December 2012 Last updated at 07:11 ET Sony has ended Japanese production of its best-selling PlayStation 2 (PS2). The hardware first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and since then more than 150 million PS2 consoles have been sold. ...

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Digital sales break £1bn barrier

2 January 2013 Last updated at 06:20 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. There has been a sharp growth in film and music downloads More than £1bn was spent on downloaded films, music and games in 2012,...

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Paris Apple store hit by heist

2 January 2013 Last updated at 06:32 ET Armed robbers broke into a central Paris Apple store on New Year's Eve, stealing goods with an estimated value of one million euros (£813,000). The police said that four masked men forced their way into...

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Ground-breaking OLED TV on sale

2 January 2013 Last updated at 09:25 ET LG has launched a 55in (140cm) OLED TV - kickstarting a battle over the next-generation of high-quality screens. OLED - which means organic light-emitting diode - is more energy efficient than LCD (liquid...

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Ubuntu system comes to smartphones

2 January 2013 Last updated at 13:17 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter The Ubuntu operating system has been adapted to run on smartphones. The Linux-based software will allow users to run desktop apps on their handsets, allowing them to...

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TV pioneer inspires media academy

3 January 2013 Last updated at 04:01 ET A £2m fundraising campaign has been launched to establish a digital media academy in the hometown of television pioneer John Logie Baird. Backers of the Heroes Centre in Helensburgh believe it will help...

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Google boss to visit North Korea

3 January 2013 Last updated at 06:12 ET The chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, is planning a visit to North Korea, South Korean officials say. The reason for the trip has not yet been revealed, but news agencies say it is part of a humanitarian...

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Elite reboot hits funding target

3 January 2013 Last updated at 06:41 ET An ambitious plan to update classic space trading game Elite has hit its funding target. The game first appeared on the BBC Micro in 1984 but one of the game's original creators wanted to make a modern...

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Island community pleads for internet

3 January 2013 Last updated at 08:40 ET By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Residents on the remote South Atlantic territory of St Helena have renewed their plea for the UK to back plans to bring broadband to the island. The British...

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