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15 July 2013 Last updated at 10:18 ET The Surface has seen a price cut of as much as 30% Microsoft and Blackberry have both cut prices on their flagship products in a bid to boost sales. Microsoft dropped the price of the 32GB Surface RT to £279 from £400 in the UK, with the 64GB model’s price down by ...

15 July 2013 Last updated at 03:58 ET Article written by Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent More from Rory Follow Rory on Twitter Rural broadband verdict – too little, too late The Bitcoin believers Teentech winners honoured Facebook acts to avoid ad boycott I’ve written before on the dialogue of the deaf between politicians and the internet industry over child internet ...

12 July 2013 Last updated at 10:07 ET The dispute dates from a series of tweets sent in October 2012 Twitter has handed over data that will help identify who posted racist tweets to the network’s French service in October 2012. The micro-blogging service fought a legal battle to avoid having to hand over the data. However, it lost its ...

12 July 2013 Last updated at 11:38 ET The row centres around how fast data is travelling across European ISPs European regulators have raided the offices of three internet service providers over accusations they have “throttled” the speed at which they deliver data. European Commission competition officials visited Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefonica’s head offices. The raids were part of ...

12 July 2013 Last updated at 08:02 ET So far, Atlas has only been put through its paces in a lab A humanoid robot called Atlas could pave the way for intelligent machines to help in the wake of natural disasters. The two meter tall robot was created as a test bed for a US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

12 July 2013 Last updated at 08:46 ET The NHS Surrey data breach was one of the most serious the ICO has seen. NHS Surrey has been fined £200,000 by data regulators over the loss of sensitive information about more than 3,000 patients. Thousands of children’s patient records were found on a second-hand NHS computer that was auctioned on eBay, ...

12 July 2013 Last updated at 07:14 ET Revelations about US spying have prompted protests around the world Microsoft helped the NSA get around its encryption systems so the agency could more easily spy on users of its services, reports suggest. Papers given to The Guardian newspaper revealed the links between the security agency and the tech firm. Microsoft said ...

11 July 2013 Last updated at 06:43 ET Revelations about US surveillance have led to protests around the world Federal agents have been asked to stay away from one of the world’s biggest hacker gatherings. Revelations about the scale of US government spying meant emotions in the hacking world were “running high”, said organisers of the Def Con convention. As ...

11 July 2013 Last updated at 11:43 ET Chief executive Stephen Elop unveiled the Lumia 1020 handset in New York Nokia has unveiled a new handset with a 41 megapixel sensor which it claims can record “details never thought possible from a smartphone”. It says consumers will be able to zoom in and reframe their photos without worrying about the ...