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- October 31
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- Japan and Norway most receptive to new tech
 - Heaviest internet users also watch the most TV
 - Virtual evil available for all
 - Quantum computer security cracked
 - Man fights to 'marry' cartoon character
 - Fearing dotcom crash 2.0? Ain't gonna happen
 - BBC bringing DRM-free content to Linux
 - Xbox UK boss on Zune, mo-control, 720
 - Can Microsoft kill off the mousemat?
 
 - October 30
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- TechRadar interview: Xbox UK boss, Stephen McGill
 - Sony to go gangbusters on Ghostbusters in '09
 - Motorola loses £20 on every phone it ships
 - When tech attacks! 13 grizzly tales of killer kit
 - New improved Netflix – as seen on TiVo
 - Microsoft: Expect surprises for Windows Mobile
 - Kids abusing school computers for porn
 - Do we need a new legal system for the web?
 - 25 free apps to make your PC more fun
 - Can Microsoft persuade gamers to go wireless?
 - 7 mind-blowing projects from Microsoft Research
 - Yet another tiny projector breaks cover
 - On the set for the filming of Kirill
 - Microsoft: We must be prepared for Kirill to fail
 - T-Mobile G1 launch: the view from the queue
 - John Sculley: "Newton was 15 years too early"
 
 - October 29
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- New Xbox Experience: avatars and HD movies
 - 20% of Americans have stopped shopping online
 - Scientists create remote control for the brain
 - Seven reasons your website sucks
 - The cyberstalker's handbook
 - Sex expert: Cybersex is fine
 - DSi launch: devs ponder 'DS EyeToy'
 - LG tries to find world's fastest texter
 - New concept phone: is it an egg?
 - World of Warcraft tops 11 million players
 - As Sony profits tumble, will UK prices rise?
 - Aiptek's new sub-£300 Pico projector
 - Windows 7, Office 14 and the future of the PC
 - HP unveils new Mini PC netbook range
 
 - October 28
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- Microsoft seeks bright Sparks
 - Microsoft demos latest Windows 7 build
 - Microsoft and Yahoo to fight 'Lottery win fraud'
 - Google agrees terms to put world's books online
 - UK is king of the Geeks in Europe
 - The 10 lamest Firefox add-ons
 - Gorilla's TV upgraded to Sky+ HD
 - ELSPA proposes traffic-light games ratings
 - A future in the cloud with Windows Azure
 - Bethesda pulls its Fallout 3 trailers
 - 'Digital natives' lack social skills
 
 - October 27
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- Microsoft has its head in Azure clouds
 - Peeping PCs in digital strip strop
 - 80% of mobile users want more control
 - The ultimate guide to Freesat
 - Is Jeeves now a porn star?
 - Netbooks: The Linux Trojan Horse
 - Sky rapped over Virgin Media promotions
 - Nintendo cranks out 2.4 million Wiis a month
 - Windows Vista SP2 beta arriving Wednesday
 - Essential free software for your PC
 - Motorola unveils lunatic handset?
 - UK Music: Five-year plan to combat music piracy
 - Google Earth app appears on iPhone
 - World's smallest wireless laser printer
 - HTC CEO expects sales of G1 to match iPhone
 
 - October 26
 - October 25
 - October 24
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- Kodak extends OLED screen lifespans
 - T-Mobile Android G1 v Nokia 2110: Ultimate Test
 - Woman jailed for killing virtual husband
 - Freeview lite row not helping public
 - Linux browser smackdown!
 - Google unveils offline mobile Mail
 - 20 websites you never realised you needed
 - Intel Vice President retracts Apple blast
 
 - October 23
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- Nanotech turntable enables terabyte Blu-ray
 - Google announces free Android apps
 - Personal tracking tech puts you on the map
 - Samsung lets you take over man's life
 - Emailing your friends while on the lavatory
 - 10 ways to get a brilliant mobile phone deal
 - Interview: John Gruber on the iPhone
 - Google answers your email for you
 
 - October 22
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- Android Market app store opens its doors
 - Bluetooth Callpod offers hands-free group chat
 - Nvidia to revolutionise laptop graphics
 - THX: all about re-creating industry standards
 - Facebook "turning us into friend addicts"
 - HP enters smartphone market
 - PSP-3000 whizzes off Japanese shelves
 - 40 devastatingly simple ways the web can save you big money
 - Toshiba bolsters laptop range
 - BBC seeking wider HD Freeview roll-out
 - Anti-terror Government snooping will harm web
 - Microsoft: iPhone and Android are no threat
 - Simon Cowell invades your mobile
 - Bioware developing new Star Wars MMO
 - Mind-boggling flying trains get green light
 
 - October 21
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- Apple posts record profits, Yahoo doesn't
 - Motorola's Aura of desperation
 - 'Best-ever' THX speaker system launched
 - 9 easy ways to watch your favourite TV online
 - Hands on: Samsung i7110 review
 - Android source code now freely available
 - BBC HD kills DOGs
 - New £150 Asus Eee netbook on horizon
 - 7 Wii tricks Nintendo doesn't tell you
 - Sony outs smallest Blu-ray notebook ever
 - Microsoft: "We've been silent too long"
 - Cinemas face closure over digital switchover
 - Games magazine editors on E3 2009
 - E3 is back: bigger and better than ever
 - Google and ITN link up on geotagged news
 - Opera: The browser wars? Over!
 
 - October 20
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 - October 17
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- Photonic PCs and hyperlenses coming soon
 - Oasis embarks on Guitar Hero World Tour
 - Human pilots fly rings around computer rivals
 - Brain implants heal monkey's paralysed wrist
 - 8 ways to make your desktop look beautiful
 - How Apple turned a green corner
 - DarkMarket revealed as FBI sting website
 - 20 technologies that changed the world
 - Lawsuit: Over 50% of initial Xbox 360s defective
 - BBC, ITV and C4 to broadcast Freeview HD
 - Ballmer deal talk boosts Yahoo by 17%
 - Ancient 486 PC takes over Hubble telescope
 
 - October 16
 - October 15
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- Facebook funds 25 innovative apps
 - Single pixel cameras shoot ahead
 - Hands on: new Apple MacBook Pro review
 - Netbooks to get projector technology
 - Is Apple changing its rumours tune?
 - 25 essential Firefox add-ons for power users
 - 10 reasons to buy the T-Mobile G1
 - The sports cars that don't cost the earth
 - Konami's MGS4 on Xbox 360 explained
 - Top 14 Android Apps for the T-Mobile G1
 - Web 'n' walk - never be disconnected from your life!
 - Deaf groups demand better phone tech
 - BenQ brings brightness to its projector range
 
 - October 14
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- London Games Fest aims for fancy dress record
 - Apple launches 'unibody' aluminium MacBooks
 - Live the superficial life of a footballer
 - iPod-friendly films bundled with Blu-ray
 - Microsoft still battling to put Silverlight on iPhone
 - What's new in OpenOffice 3?
 - HMV launching UK-wide gaming centres
 - BBC iPlayer on loadsa mobiles!
 - BT names its 'internet ranger' of 2008
 - Sony Ericsson's new handset / wife: Filippa
 - Windows 7 to be called 'Windows 7'
 
 - October 13
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- Microsoft to release Silverlight 2 tomorrow
 - Microsoft Equipt to launch in UK next week
 - Don't buy Christmas pressies says tech shop
 - Digg users: Kevin is cooler than Alex
 - AC/DC: "iTunes is going to kill music"
 - Five easy ways to watch BBC iPlayer on your TV
 - London and Wales get BT's 40Mb broadband
 - Latest PSP and PS3 firmware updates detailed
 - Virgin Media trials targeted TV adverts
 - OLED lighting on the market in 2010
 - UK games devs face potential market failure
 - Shoe-friendly airport scanner launched
 - CBS starts broadcasting on YouTube
 - Survey: gadgets in cars distract us
 - Third of UK TVs not ready for digital
 
 - October 12
 - October 11
 - October 10
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- Next-gen OLED screens to have touch built-in
 - LG Wirewize untangles home cinema cabling
 - Electrolux fridge keeps students' food safe
 - Should ISPs protect us on the net?
 - Symantec to send comp winner into space
 - Rose wants key Diggers to keep influence
 - Microsoft denies Xbox 360 Blu-ray in production
 - Kevin Rose: My scariest moment at Digg
 - Amazon UK is 10 today
 - T3 gadget award-winners announced
 - Vodafone rejected Storm, says RIM CEO
 - Virgin Media: speedtests don't tell the truth
 - 20 websites that changed the world
 - Microsoft wants Surface in UK by end '08
 - Virtual alien hunting by mobile phone
 
 - October 9
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- Navman S100 sat nav saves you petrol
 - Automatic image tagging gets smarter
 - 'I love the iPhone' says 3 UK's CEO
 - LG fails to make world's thinnest 8MP phone
 - TGS 2008: PSP games to be downloadable
 - BBC iPlayer now on portable devices
 - The Blue Screen of Death survival guide
 - Xbox 360 Blu-ray rumours gain ground
 - Digg founder: tech is changing US election
 - Moto's Q11 - the next BlackBerry?
 - Play.com goes 100 per cent DRM-free
 - TGS 2008: Halo 3 Recon announced
 - Hacks and tweaks for a faster, safer network
 - Asus ships new Eee PCs with live virus
 
 - October 8
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- Has flash memory had its chips?
 - HP printers to go fully wireless by 2010
 - Google's Mail Goggles stops drunken messages
 - 8 easy ways to slash your tech power bills
 - Will Nintendo DSi region locking combat piracy?
 - Apple to replace iPod with 'iWatch'?
 - DNA may reveal people's surnames
 - Bungie announcement at Tokyo Game Show 2008
 - BlackBerry Storm launches in UK
 - MySpace and Facebook mobile services under fire
 - New underground site takes on MySpace Music
 - Google announces in-game ads
 - Analyst calls for Xmas PS3 price cut
 - iPhone scores big business win in Japan
 - Mobile phone gadget makes buses stop
 
 - October 7
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- Microsoft launches $3m edu-gaming institute
 - Fears over US electronic voting machine fraud
 - Hands on: Dell Inspiron Mini 9 review
 - Ford launches MyKey parental controls for cars
 - Asus launches S101 MacBook Air killer
 - 12 Vista Sidebar gadgets that will save you money
 - Nintendo angers fans with DSi region lock
 - Nintendo announces Wii Speak details for UK
 - ITV asks for more peak-time adverts
 - Men regularly fake it... on their phones
 - Oyster card security flaws published
 - Google Maps Street View comes to iPhone
 
 - October 6
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- Otto Traveler cans cancel noise with built-in MP3
 - Internet: coming through your lightbulb
 - eBay cuts 1,000 jobs from workforce
 - Sony Ericsson to release football-shaped mobile?
 - The future of motoring
 - Airport 'face scanners' pose security threat
 - 97% of UK scared about their personal data
 - 12 groups that hate the internet
 - Projection and HD in a mobile phone!
 - Search specialist Ask given a facelift
 
 - October 5
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 - October 3
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- Wii gets VoIP phone software and hardware
 - Carbon Diem tracks carbon footprint via GPS
 - 5 billion Presidential spam by Election Day
 - Get blockbuster movies on your iPhone
 - Hands on: Obama '08 iPhone app review
 - 7digital slams Nokia's Comes with Music
 - Weird Tech: Craigslist used for bank robbery
 - 22 Vista Sidebar gadgets to save you time
 - HP Blackbird 002 finally arrives in UK
 - Iwata casts doubt on DSi arrival in US/EU
 - Intel Core i7: We've got it covered
 - Nokia: 5800 XpressMusic first of many touchphones
 
 - October 2
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- Nokia and S60 to go multi-touch?
 - Sony demos transparent, flexible OLED display
 - Comes With Music finally debuts from Nokia
 - Nokia unveils 5800 XpressMusic, AKA Tube
 - 7digital first to offer Oasis album in FLAC
 - Live streaming is coming to YouTube
 - How to avoid losing your digital photos
 - Freeview HD arriving Autumn 2009
 - e-Newspaper in your pocket... coming soon!
 - Adobe developing Flash for iPhone
 - Microsoft's 'Cloud' OS arriving in October
 - Here at last - Nintendo unveils new DSi
 
 - October 1
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- Hollywood studios embrace digital cinema
 - iPhone flagship game hits App Store
 - ITV trialling online-video advert inserts
 - 21 great add-ons for iTunes 8
 - Yahoo MD: We must go back to basics
 - Heavyweights back mobile broadband sticker
 - Seven more Xbox 360 secrets Microsoft doesn't tell you
 - PocketSurfer 2R - mobile internet but no phone?
 - Apple to be sued for 'closed' iTunes store
 - Politicians save internet radio... for now
 - Bizarre phone lets users see through walls