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Apple has announced at Macworld that music on its iTunes store will now be DRM free.

Sales of videogame software and hardware in the UK hit an all time high, figures from the industry trade body show.

More than 130,000 people are expected to travel to Las Vegas for the giant Consumer Electronics Show.

The micro-blogging site has to deal with both a phishing scam and a hack of some very high profile accounts.

Steve Jobs, head of Apple, has disclosed in a press statement that he is being treated for a hormone imbalance.

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A survey of more than 1,000 internet activists, journalists and technologists about tech life in 2020 has found expectations of haptic and voice interfaces

A look at the damage that halted the LHCCern has released pictures of the impact of a liquid helium leak in September

The future of mobile-device chargersKinetic energy technology can charge mobile phones and devices without ever needing an electrical outlet

The future of paperAt the Palo Alto Research Center, scientists are developing a way to print an image that disappears, allowing paper to be used dozens of times

LHC restart pushed back furtherThe world's most powerful particle accelerator now looks likely to be operational again in late summer 2009, rather than June

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Wikipedia campaign raises over $6.2mA fundraising drive launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia

High-street retailers with a web shopfront had 68 percent more internet traffic than their online-only rivals during the Christmas period, according to research by Experian

Online retailers enjoyed a sharp rise in traffic on 26 December, with eBay being the most popular retail site in terms of Boxing Day visits

Web-science pioneer is made a dameThe New Year's honours list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic web

The IDF has created its own YouTube channel carrying videos of its air assault against Hamas militants, and is using Twitter to spread its message

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The internet telephony company has turned its client for the iPhone and iPod Touch into an aggregator for Skype, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger

AMD chip bundle targets The chipset bundle, which includes the Athlon Neo processor, is aimed at laptops that are larger and have better components than netbooks, but are cheaper than ultraportables

The Swiss manufacturer of computer peripherals such as webcams and mice cites the economic downturn as the reason for the job cuts

Twitter hack targets Obama, BritneyThe popular microblogging site says its support tools were hacked and 33 high-profile user accounts compromised on Monday

There is much kerfuffling going on right now about the news that, shock horror, paid-for apps will soon appear in the Android Marketplace. Um, isn't that what marketplaces are for?

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The reason why some people are better with faces than names has been identified by scientists and it appears to be due to their higher levels of a special "socialising" hormone called Oxytocin.

Scientists will cut open a 10ft great white shark live on website.

Apple is to allow iTunes music to be played on any MP3 player.

CES sees £99 computers to go on sale in M?S and Next as recession shrinks computers.

Apple announces it will be removing the antipiracy encryption on all songs it sells at final Macworld.