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Game maker Bungie is going to take action against 15,000 gamers who have exploited an online trick t...hat allowed them to earn credits, which then advanced their rank and unlocked new armour.

LG has revealed why it has put the launch of the Android-based tablet device on ice this year.Appare...ntly it is because Froyo can't manage tablets and LG is waiting for Google to come up with something better.

An airport in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, was forced to shut to avoid a collision between a UFO which wa...s refusing to take instructions from air traffic control.

Spam campaigns using emails with infected HTML attachments accounted for around two and eight percent of all spam, according to Sophos.

Ever since Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison, said last month that he might contemplate buying a semicondu...ctor company, we've all wondered just what the man is thinking.

Some excellent Tweets coming in from technology journalist Tim Anderson at Ballmer's talk today at t...he London School of Economics - Mick Jagger went there for a while, by the way.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and inspiration for an unlikely Hollywood blockbuster, has joined ...the list of stars who have appeared on The Simpsons. He joins the likes of Stephen Hawking and, er, Aerosmith.

A jury in the Tyler district court found Apple guilty of infringing three patents and said it should... be penalised to the tune of $208 million per patent.

Facebook is nicking Google's staff. Over 10 percent of Facebook's staff used to work for the Big G i...n the past, according to the New York Times.Around 200 of Facebook's current employees are ex-Googlers.

Google has launched a new website for Google TV, showing off some of the features we can expect on t...he devices which are set to launch within the coming weeks.

A website that offers a reward for shopping shoplifters and other criminals by viewing CCTV has laun...ched.Internet Eyes offers subscribers to the site up to £1,000 if they regularly report suspicious activity spotted in the footage.

It's been a month and a bit but reports online are starting to trickle in of the FBI's wire taps. We... reported on the FBI's newly given right to plant a GPS tracking device on vehicles.The U.S.

Despite uncertainty still plaguing the international markets, the chip industry is growing, with Aug...ust sales totalling $25.7 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).The figures show a 1.

Qualcomm has today launched its free Augmented Reality Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android sm...artphones, opening new avenues for developers to create interactive 3D apps that allow an additional layer of virtual data to be placed over our every

Verizon Wireless has said it will refund up to $90 million to 15 million mobile customers who were accidentally charged for data downloads.

The UK could be at risk of a major cybercrime attack due to police understaffing - so much so that t...he Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police has called for more cyber cops, not robocops, despite police budgets is being cut.

US consumers are to be given more control over how their internet browsing habits are used for targe...ted marketing.The American Association of Advertising Agencies and the American Advertising Federation, which represent 5000 advertisers, has

Music streaming service Spotify is set to work with Microsoft, it was announced today. The idea is t...hat you will be able to listen to your music anywhere, at the PC or with your mobile - not entirely revelatory as that's exactly how Spotify works alr

Mongolia has emerged as a new contender in the race for world domination in rare earths.Bloomberg Bu...sinessweek has reported that Japan plans to send a study group to Mongolia this month to look at rare-earth deposits with the Mongolian government

Buried in amongst the emails of the ACS: Law hack is a somewhat amusing revelation about what the an...ti-piracy lawyers really think about copying another's work.

Toshiba will have a 3D enabled liquid display television out by the end of December, it said today, ...which will be the first on the market that won't require glasses.

LG has scrapped plans to launch a tablet based on Google'sFroyo Android 2.2 OS.According to Reuters ...this may delay the roll-out of its first tablet PC and mark another setback for LG, which is trying to boost its troubled handset business at

Law firm Gallant Macmillan, which last week pledged to carry on with targeting those accused of file sharing, has been taken offline.

Samsung will tell delegates at the Createc gathering in Tokyo all about its WiMax 2 trial system, ba...sed on IEEE 802.16m with a potential speed of 330Mbps.

When the Apple iPhone 4 finally went on sale in Taiwan earlier this month, they forgot one thing: pr...otective sleeves. Steve Jobs promised he'd arrange them for Taiwan, but he never did.The result?

As the digital age grows more and more complicated, in terms of copyright law and copyright theft, s...ome Japanese companies are "cooking their own meals" in a way that some book publishers can't quite digest.

A top analyst has warned that the writing is on the wall for non-x86 processors and has pronounced doom for Sparc and Power chips.

Iran has an interesting way of dealing with cyber attacks. According to the state-run Mehr news agen...cy, it rounds up people who distributed it, treats them like spies for foreign powers and locks them up.

Health experts claim that laptops can be bad for your health.The latest modern illness to befall hum...anity is called "toasted skin syndrome", an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure from a laptop.