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Dotcom can now sue NZ intelligence agency for spying

Kim Dotcom, the embattled founder of Megaupload and Mega, has won another victory in Kiwi court, after a judge denied the appeal of his opposition to overturn an initial ruling, that said he would be allowed to sue the New Zealand intelligence agency, GCSB. While that's all a little confusing, …

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Microsoft pay €561m EU penalty

Microsoft have had to pay out €561m, after the EU competition authority fined the operating system giant. They said Microsoft had failed to give at least 15 million customers a choice of web browser, a violation of a voluntary antitrust pact that was spotted and raised by Google and Opera, …

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Nexus 7 dock appears on Google Play

Well it looks like the wait is over. The official Nexus 7 docking station is now available for sale on Google Play. ASUS build the 7 inch tablet for Google and they showcased the dock at CES, earlier this year. Earlier speculation was that the dock would be available in …

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HMV Guernsey enters administration

Guernsey

One more arm of the high street media retailer HMV has now entered administration. Guernsey may not be the biggest market, but it's another tumbling domino that paints a bleak future for the shop chain. Unfortunately for those that are employed in the Guernsey store, the single outley was used …

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HBO understands piracy better than most

Tyrion

One of the biggest choices for modern media consumers is whether to get their content legally, or illegally. While the former is certainly becoming easier, cheaper and faster, often times the latter is just more convenient. Most companies ignore this and do idiotic things, like sue their fan base, or …

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LaFerrari hybrid supercar – 217mph+ 949 horsepower

Ferrari have unveiled their next supercar at the Geneva Motor Show. They are dubbing the car ‘LaFerrari'. The hybrid supercar can produce 949 horsepower and hit 0-60 mph in less than 3 seconds. The price? A cool $1 million. The rumours of the upcoming Ferrari hybrid car have been rife. …

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Analyst wonders if Apple can play ‘defense’ this year

Apple are one of the world's largest, most profitable and financially successful companies. The competition has been heating up in the last six months however especially from Samsung and Google. UBS Analyst Steve Milunovich has sent out an email to clients which read ‘Identity Crisis: Can Apple Play Defense?'. He …

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Google celebrate store 1st birthday with sale

Google are celebrating their 1st Play Store birthday with a huge sale on a variety of software. They are also giving away free goodies to Android users. The gifts target a wide audience, from games to applications, with special offers on a wide range of downloads.  The deals will be …

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Biggest Dell shareholder calls for opening of books

Dell

The biggest shareholder outside of Dell, Southeastern Asset Management (SAM), has called on the computer firm to out its yearly books, making its financials available to all – ahead of what many are thinking will be a return to private ownership. SAM currently owns eight per cent of the PC …

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Sony suing file sharer $233,000

Beyonce

Sony Music Entertainment is now suing a man for nearly a quarter million dollars, after he was found to have leaked a Beyonce album onto file sharing website The Pirate Bay, before it was officially released. This occurred back in mid 2011, but it's all coming to a head now. …

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Not everyone thinks the web should be free

Wotf

While a growing consensus from the world's online community is that the internet should be free for everyone, just as all useful information should be, not everyone agrees. Computer scientist Jaron Lanier has spoken out at the Economist's Tech Frontiers conference, about how he believes unless we monetise web content …

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Facebook have four billionaires on 2013 Forbes list

Facebook have produced four billionaires according to the latest Forbes List. Mark Zuckerberg is the world's youngest billionaire but there are three others to make the list. Zuckerberg, 28 and the founding chief of the company has a fortune of $13.3 billion and ranks number 66 on the 2013 list …

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Pirate Bay North Korean move, fake?

Infamous bittorent tracking site The Pirate Bay have announced that they are relocating to North Korea, a country well known for limiting their internet service to citizens. The Pirate Bay wrote in a blog post “The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal …

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Germany approves Google News license fee

Iron Sky

German parliament has now given the voted approval for a licensing fee should the search engine wish to reproduce more than just a few short excerpts of a news story. Fortunately to come into play it still needs to be ratified by the upper house of German parliament, but that's …

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Dotcom’s Mega seeking CFO before IPO

Dotcom Zoo

Kim Dotcom's file locker sequel to Megaupload, Mega, is now looking for a chief financial officer ahead of an intended public offering of the company. The hiree will be in charge of readying the firm for its flotation. Announced by Dotcom just a few hours ago via his twitter feed, …

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Google not happy with Motorola smartphone pipeline

Google have publicly commented on the Motorola pipeline, after buying the company last year. This will come as a blow to many people who had hoped that the Google/Motorola deal would lead to an array of exciting smartphones in the near future. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference, Google …

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Evernote reset passwords after hackers steal login info

Evernote, the popular online personal organiser have had to issue a password reset for all their users after hackers penetrated the company's protection systems and accessed login credentials. The company sent out an email to customers. The Evernote team found out about the attack and subsequently blocked ‘suspicious activity on …

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Shocking pace of change – Moor Insights to follow

Having VP-ed at the highest levels in the tech industry, Patrick Moorhead has now started his own consultancy and he came over to Monte Carlo to share his latest insights with an eager crowd of EMEA's top buying and selling talent. KitGuru operatives managed to sneak out some telling shots. …

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Hilco puts HMV bid on table

HMV

HMV has until the end of this month to get some funds together or go under completely. Fortunately it looks like Hilco, the company that bought up HMV's debt back in January, is not putting up the cash to take the beleaguered firm off the chopping block. £50 million is …

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Riot Games opens Sydney office

Rioters

Maker and runner of League of Legends, Riot Games, has announced that it has opened a new office in Sydney, Australia and is already looking for new blood to staff it. Do you have what it takes? The two new positions available – who will presumably be joining others, it …

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