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Illegally downloading just a single blockbuster movie or hit song using so-called "torrent" software means your computer is likely to be secretly logged and monitored by copyright enforcement agencies, undercover research has shown.

The BBC has launched a new download feature which means people can store programmes from the iPlayer on to their phone or tablet and watch them later without an internet connection.

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EMC storage biz unit shows off non-enterprise figures

Networked storage is not just for enterprise buyers. The wee consumer arm of storage-and-networking giant EMC says that small office and home office (SOHO) and small and medium business customers have bought more than a million of its StorCenter networked storage boxes.…

Would you fries chips with that compute'n'flash combo?

Flash array startup GridIron is touting a converged compute'n'flash iNode go-faster box with Zettaset Big Data management software. A reference architecture tells users how to build a 100TB, 1.5 million IOPS Hadoop virtual cluster.…

My vinyl copy of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica is a treasured thing – all four unlistenable sides of it – and it's there in my will as part of the motley collection of recordings I've amassed over the years. If I get hit by a bus today, my friend Jenny will get it, but the fate of the gigabytes of music I've bought online isn't so clear. Weirdly, they're not mine to bequeath; under the terms of license I merely have them on some kind of permanent loan.

Guild Wars 2′s quest to top the all formats games charts has ended in success, with NCsoft’s PC-exclusive MMORPG outselling anything and everything across all formats.

Square Enix has announced the concluding chapter to the story of Lightning, who’s jounrey has so far impacted events in both FF XIII and FF XIII-2, in the shape of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

Queen star Freddie Mercury has been turned into a character from hit game Angry Birds.

Big Data? This is Giant Fat Chair-smashing Bastard Data

Cleversafe claims it has the biggest mouth for objects on the planet, gulping them in at a terabyte a second.…