Yahoo acquires moviemaking app Qwiki

2 July 2013 Last updated at 21:49 ET Yahoo has acquired Qwiki, the start-up behind an iPhone app that allows users to turn photos, music and videos into short movies automatically. Yahoo has been on a shopping spree as it looks to win advertisers...

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Microsoft develops 3D touchscreen

2 July 2013 Last updated at 09:20 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated have been published by Microsoft's research unit. The project combines an LCD flat panel screen...

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Last of Us game issues sex chat fix

2 July 2013 Last updated at 09:28 ET A video-game maker has had to release an update to their latest title after real-life sex-chat-line phone numbers were discovered in the artwork. Naughty Dog, creators of the popular post-apocalyptic game...

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RSS apps face glitches post-Google

2 July 2013 Last updated at 15:14 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter Former users of the Google Reader RSS news feed service are facing glitches on some of the alternatives hoping to take advantage of its demise. Feedly's mobile apps are...

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Former Olympus executives sentenced

3 July 2013 Last updated at 02:09 ET Three former executives of Olympus have been given suspended jail terms for their roles in an accounting scandal. Former chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and executives Hisashi Mori and Hideo Yamada pleaded guilty...

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Ofcom plans fast broadband changes

3 July 2013 Last updated at 05:58 ET Regulators have proposed new measures they say could lead to better deals for superfast broadband customers. Ofcom is proposing to cut the costs paid by broadband providers when switching customers, and...

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Ubisoft hack hits millions of gamers

3 July 2013 Last updated at 05:59 ET Ubisoft has suffered a security breach and is warning account holders that details have been compromised. The video games publisher said that user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords had been...

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Protests planned over web spying row

3 July 2013 Last updated at 07:33 ET Some of the web's biggest names have backed mass protests over internet surveillance carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The Restore the Fourth movement - referring to the US constitution's...

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Sarcasm tool 'used by UK government'

3 July 2013 Last updated at 09:20 ET By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News French company Spotter has developed an analytics tool that claims to have up to 80% accuracy in identifying sarcastic comments posted online. Spotter says...

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Talking train window ads tested

3 July 2013 Last updated at 11:07 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter A German firm is proposing to transmit adverts via train windows so that the sound appears to "come from inside the user's head" when passengers lean against them. The...

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