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iTunes store shutdown feared

A veiled threat by Apple to close its iTunes store has emerged 18 months after it was issued and just a day before royalty rates are to be set.

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Online music avoids rate hike

The veiled threat to shut down iTunes if royalty rates on downloaded songs were hiked has been averted.

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Alarm sounded on second-hand kit

For less than a pound a security expert has got front-door access to a council's internal network.

Andrew Mason from security firm Random Storm bought some network hardware from auction site eBay for 99p.

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Fighting the scourge of scareware

Microsoft and Washington State's Attorney General filed lawsuits against scam artists who frighten consumers into buying useless software.

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UK consumers see card fraud rise

UK consumers lost £302m to card fraud in the first six months of this year, an increase of 14% compared with the first half of 2007, figures suggest.

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Computers could read mammograms

A computer plus one expert are as effective at spotting breast cancer as the two experts usually used to read a mammogram in the UK, research suggests.

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Prizes for Live Search regulars

Microsoft is boosting use of its search page by giving prizes to regular users. Under a scheme called Search Perks users will get points for every keyword search they carry out via Live Search.

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Google 'Goliath' Microsoft says

The chief executive of Microsoft has admitted that his firm's slowness to grasp the potential of internet search had hit the business.

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China 'spying on Skype messages'

China has been monitoring and censoring messages sent through the internet service Skype, researchers say.

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Children's web watchdog launched

A new internet watchdog has been launched to help protect children from "harmful" web content, such as cyber-bullying and violent video games.

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Solar-powered wi-fi comes to Brazil

While many net users in developed nations can get online pretty much anywhere thanks to reliable electricity and telecoms networks, the same is not true in developing nations where power sockets and fixed line links can be few and far between.

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Fast forward for mobile broadband

Phone firms, chip makers and PC manufacturers are uniting to push mobile broadband on laptop computers.

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BT to kick off fresh Phorm trial

Telecoms giant BT is about to start further trials of a controversial internet advertising technology.

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Internet game for victims of war

A charity has launched an internet game to raise awareness about victims of war, in which the object is to help a displaced Ugandan boy find his mother.

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Ofcom may rethink spectrum sale

UK regulator Ofcom may rethink its plans for the so-called digital dividend in order to bring it more in line with Europe.

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Venezuela splashes out on laptops

Venezuela is ordering one million low cost laptops for its school children.

The machines will be based on the Intel Classmate laptop that has been designed for school children.

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Nintendo confirms new look DSi

Nintendo has confirmed it will start selling a new version of its handheld DS console in Japan this Christmas with a UK launch likely early next year.

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