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The launch of the first satellites for Galileo - Europe's version of GPS - is delayed because of an anomaly detected during the fuelling of their Soyuz rocket.

UK websites should have protection from defamation cases if they remove anonymous postings if there is a complaint, MPs and peers says.

The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after concluding that there will still be enough players in the market after the acquisition. After the acquisition, Samsung will have about 9.6 percent ownership of Seagate, the companies said in April.

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ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, a new microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smartphones, as well as in high-end smartphones alongside the more powerful Cortex-A15.

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Samsung, in collaboration with BIGFlix, will be launching, what it claims will be, India's first of it's kind Video on Demand application named 'My Movies', that offers consumers full length feature films.

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Amazon, IBM, Rackspace reps debate cloud security and availability, along with use of SQL and database connectivity in the cloud at ZendCon

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Fisker received its EPA certification for the Karma plug-in hybrid and commenced sales of the near $100K sport sedan.

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Sergey Brin initially considered the Circles content-sharing mechanism on Google+ to be too complicated, but after he started using the site he changed his mind and now thoroughly enjoys using the company's social networking site.

ARM Holdings has introduced the Cortex-A7, an upcoming microprocessor design that will be used in sub-US$100 smart phones, as well as in high-end smart phones as a companion chip to the more powerful Cortex-A15.

Startup Sakti3 expects to have prototypes of a solid-state lithium ion battery that it hopes will increase the range of electric cars and enable cheaper electronics.

High-efficiency solar-cell manufacturer launches a new line of silicon panels so that the electricity generated from solar can be converted from DC to AC at the source.

UK chip designer ARM has unveiled a new processor which should allow manufacturers to make cheaper smartphones.

Amazon's new Silk browser, which has already raised concerns from security experts and legislators, got a mixed review from a major privacy advocacy group.

Ultrabooks with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS are due to reach market next year, and the OS could help propel demand for the devices, an Intel executive said this week.

Symantec and McAfee appear to have come to slightly different conclusions about the specific dangers posed by a newly discovered Trojan program called Duqu.

Google has a new competitor: '80s pop music superstar MC Hammer.

Solar companies ask Obama administration to slap duties of more than 100 percent on imports from China, saying Chinese companies are unfairly undercutting U.S. prices and taking American jobs.