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Amazon launches Prime Music streaming service

12 June 2014, 12:15

The new ad-free service gives its Prime members access to over 1 million songs.

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Microsoft surprised by Chinese Windows 8 ban

21 May 2014, 11:45

China has banned all government purchases of Windows 8 due to security concerns.

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Over a third of Steam Games are bought and never played

17 April 2014, 10:10

So says a new report based on data collected from the Steam Community portal.

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Newegg pilot program starts in the UK and Australia

9 April 2014, 10:11

A limited selection of products from its .com site are now available to Brits and Aussies.

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UK 99p digital downloads under threat as full VAT is to be applied

24 March 2014, 13:30

Companies such as Apple and Amazon will be affected by the UK Govt's £300M tax raid.

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Most secure £1 coin has been unveiled, uses 12-sided design

19 March 2014, 16:15

New design based on the threepenny bit to be introduced as the current one is too easy to forge.

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Sony to close two thirds of its US stores with 1,000 jobs lost

27 February 2014, 11:07

Meanwhile the recently launched PS4 console flies off the shelves in Japan.

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Microsoft has sold 200 million Windows 8 licences in 15 months

14 February 2014, 11:00

The troubled OS thus undershoots Windows 7's 12 month tally by 40 million.

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Apple Mac Pro availability pushed back to April

12 February 2014, 11:12

Went on sale in Dec and almost immediately sold out. Now eBay Mac Pro scalpers make £$£$s.

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Amazon Prime Sunday service goes live in the UK

21 January 2014, 11:17

In London, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds.

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Windows 8 and 8.1 combined market share breaches 10%

2 January 2014, 11:00

Windows 7 is still on the up and Windows XP usage is still nearly 30 per cent.

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2013 BitTorrent Zeitgeist figures released

30 December 2013, 21:03

New data reveals this year's most searched for keywords on torrent search engines.

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Battlefield 4 banned in China in wake of EA's China Rising DLC

30 December 2013, 09:35

Accusations of cultural invasion were raised by the Chinese government.

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FIFA 14 denies CoD at the goal line, scores Christmas 2013 No.1

24 December 2013, 11:30

The 'beautiful game' fends off the bookies favourite - Call of Duty: Ghosts.

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Amazon testing Octocopter ‘Prime Air’ drones for 30 min deliveries

2 December 2013, 09:34

The unmanned drone can carry up to 2.3Kg.

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Amazon to offer Sunday delivery in UK and US cities

12 November 2013, 12:16

For UK it’s London only, but in the US several cities will get the Sunday service.

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Windows 8.X share of PC market creeps past 10 per cent

4 November 2013, 12:15

Meanwhile Windows XP’s market share shrinkage decelerates.

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Argos and eBay collaborate: buy on eBay, collect free from Argos

24 September 2013, 17:20

Trial service to start with 50 eBay merchants and 150 Argos stores.

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Microsoft U-turn: gives devs early access to Windows 8.1 RTM

10 September 2013, 09:45

Also the near-final Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is made available.

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Windows 8.1 will be downloadable from 17th October

15 August 2013, 04:00

Full retail launch of Windows 8.1 software and devices will start on 18th October.

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The Sun website paywall will be erected tomorrow

31 July 2013, 11:30

Every day two million paywall access codes will be in the printed version.

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After one day Google sells out of Chromecast, ends Netflix promo

26 July 2013, 07:00

Also consumers rush to trade-in 2012 model Nexus 7 tablets.

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PC World Magazine's last-ever printed issue is on sale now

12 July 2013, 11:15

After a 30-year run the US magazine will now only span web and digital formats.

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Nvidia now bundling Splinter Cell Blacklist with GTX 660 or better

9 July 2013, 12:30

Offer, via participating retailers, starts today. Game is scheduled for release on 23rd August.

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Google Chromebooks being sold in Tesco and Walmart

20 June 2013, 14:21

Mountain View keeps up efforts to flog these nouveau netbooks.

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Steam game-sharing features spotted in beta code

20 June 2013, 10:15

Will you be able to share your Steam games library with your mates?

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Japan gets 256GB Surface Pro with Office 2013 for free

29 May 2013, 14:21

Also an exclusive trio of specially designed touch covers will be available.

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New digital PC games charts debut in the UK

28 May 2013, 14:09

It’s the world’s first to include actual sales data of PC game and DLC downloads.

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Acetrax movie streaming service will close, presents DRM woes

22 May 2013, 14:02

Users have until 21st June to redownload purchased films.

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Microsoft reacts to Adobe abandoning packaged software

8 May 2013, 12:20

MS thinks Adobe's move away from perpetual software licenses may be a decade too early.

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EA gains exclusive rights to develop Star Wars games

7 May 2013, 12:30

DICE, Visceral and BioWare will work on new Star Wars titles.

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Order groceries, get them within an hour, from PocketShop UK

22 April 2013, 16:52

Service debuts today, covering various North London postcodes.

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Twitter Music is expected to launch today

12 April 2013, 11:45

The new standalone app will be launched as the Coachella music festival starts.

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