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A row is brewing over separate projects to use the web to bring people closer to their local police forces.

China's top internet official warns that Google will "pay the consequences" if it does not comply with censorship laws.

About 24,000 clients of HSBC's private banking operation in Switzerland had personal details stolen, the bank admits.

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams believes social networks will become a fundamental way the public communicates with government.

Japan is embracing fuel cell to provide electricity and heat in the home. Now it wants to export the systems to the UK and the rest of Europe.

Microsoft has lost a second appeal in a case that will see it pay $240m (£160m) in damages to software firm i4i.

A gaming service that aims to kill off the traditional gaming console will begin streaming games over the net in June this year.

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

Virgin Media has begun trials of technology to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles in the UK.

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