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Microsoft sells over a million Xbox Ones in under 24 hours

Microsoft Corp sold over 1 million of its new Xbox One game consoles within 24 hours of their hitting store shelves on Friday, on par with Sony Corp's PlayStation 4 despite launching in far more countries.
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Opposition to mobile phone chat on planes

A proposal to allow mobile phone calls during commercial flights has met opposition.
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Amazon Coins launches in UK with free money offer

Company's new payment system offers Kindle Fire owners £4 worth of virtual currency to spend on apps and in-app purchases.
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Global launch for Microsoft Xbox One console

Microsoft's Xbox One game console went on sale in the UK at midnight.
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SharpFutures reports first year’s activities to council backers

Manchester social enterprise SharpFutures has presented its first annual report to the city councillors who first bankrolled the project.
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'Kano' Raspberry Pi toolkit hits $100k Kickstarter target

Crowdfunding project for credit-card-sized single-board computer reaches target in just 18 hours.
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UKFast invests £2m into family friendly working environment

UKFast is redeveloping its Manchester headquarters to create a “unique working environment” for its 200 employees.
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£250,000 3D printing hub opens in Manchester

A 3D printing hub has opened in Manchester, with the launch of Hobs Studio in Dale Street.
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Nokia shareholders approve sale of mobile business to Microsoft

Nokia shareholders approved the 5.4 billion euros ($7.4 billion) sale of the company's mobile phone business to Microsoft, deciding the deal's financial benefits outweighed any objections to the loss of a Finnish national asset.
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Germany to overtake UK as biggest social networkers

UK will no longer be the top social networking country in Western Europe by the end of 2014, according to forecasts.
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Google and Microsoft agree steps to block abuse images

Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online.
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Twitter lets UK emergency services raise the alarm

New service enables SMS alerts from 58 organisations including police, firefighters and the Foreign Office.
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PlayStation 4 v Xbox One

The release of the PlayStation 4 in North America - it goes on sale in Europe and Latin America in a fortnight - is seen by many as the true dawn for next-generation console gaming after the troubled launch of Nintendo's Wii U.
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Capital businesses to get .london domain next spring

London will shortly become one of the first cities in the world to launch its own city domain name.
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Plug pulled on rural broadband projects in favour of BT

A rural broadband group planning to offer superfast net services in Oxfordshire has been told that the project cannot go ahead, the BBC has learned.
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Google removes record-breaking 200m piracy links so far in 2013

BPI and RIAA filed more than 74m takedown notices combined this year, with FilesTube topping list of removals.
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Snapchat rejected $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook

Mobile messaging startup Snapchat rejected an acquisition offer from Facebook Inc that would have valued the company at $3 billion or more, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.
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EE launches 4G in rural Cumbria

UK mobile operator EE has announced the launch of 4G in rural Cumbria, bringing superfast home and office broadband to over 2,000 residents and businesses.
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Microwave signals turned into electrical power

An electrical current capable of charging a mobile phone has been created from microwave signals.
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Twitter shares fade, wiping $5.5bn off value of company

Spectacular gains made on Thursday were quickly eroded as Twitter’s share price fell sharply to as low as $40.685.
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Google's Nexus 5 Play Store price undercuts wholesale cost

Company's £300 starting price for smartphone is around £50 less in its own online shop than retailers pay for it.
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Vodafone fails on 3G mobile coverage

Mobile firm Vodafone has been rapped by regulator Ofcom for failure to meet its coverage obligations.
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Bitcoin price hits all-time high of $269

The price of the digital currency has broken the record set in April 2013, despite the Silk Road bust and fears over security.
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Google solves mystery of barges off US coast

The mystery of why Google has moored two barges off the US coast appears to have been solved.
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Apple creates 2,000 jobs shifting production back to US

Technology company's renewable energy-powered Arizona laboratory set to grow sapphire crystals for fingerprint scanners.
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BlackBerry sale collapses

Shares in Blackberry plunge after the ailing smartphone maker abandoned hopes of finding a buyer and drew up a radical new investment scheme instead.
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Netflix tests 'ultra high definition' 4K video streams

Netflix, the TV and film streaming service, has started testing "ultra high definition" video.
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India asks IBM to pay $866 million in outstanding tax

Indian tax authorities have asked IBM's Indian unit to pay 53.57 billion rupees ($866.20 million) in outstanding income tax on fiscal 2009 revenue, media reported on Saturday.
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