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Google captures Galapagos Island beauty

TOPICS: Business news Technology A Google Maps team toting 360-degree cameras has hiked trails, hills and even into a live volcano to take Street View pictures of the Galapagos Islands.

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Amazon's Kindle Fire goes to 170 countries

TOPICS: Business news Technology Amazon's Kindle Fire, which starts in the US market at $US159, will start shipping to more than 170 additional countries by June 13.

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Apple wants patent case to include Galaxy

TOPICS: Business news Technology Apple wants Samsung's Galaxy smartphone included in a lawsuit that targets its Siri personal assistant, saying it also uses the patents concerned.

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Latop buyer's guide

TOPICS: Technology Nevertheless, if you’re buying a laptop for the first time or, perhaps, considering an upgrade from an older PC, then the following guide will help you...

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YouTube on verge of introducing paid subscriptions

TOPICS: Business news Technology YouTube is set to introduce a paid subscription service for some of its specialist video channels, the Financial Times reports.

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Mobile data demand doubles

TOPICS: Business news Technology The Commerce Commission's 2012 telecommunications annual monitoring report shows demand for mobile data has almost doubled.

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Google foretells stock movements: study

TOPICS: Business news Technology British researchers have found that Google Trends is a potential money-spinner as it provides hints of impending share price movements.

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Penguin to change e-books strategy

TOPICS: Business news Technology Commitments made by Penguin will halt an enquiry by the European Commission into price fixing in the lucrative e-book industry.

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Undisclosed glitch disrupts Google Mail

TOPICS: Business news Technology Cloud-based Google services, including Google Mail, have been disrupted for undisclosed reasons.

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LinkedIn buys news app Pulse

TOPICS: Business news Technology Career-focused social network LinkedIn has bought news reading app-maker Pulse to expand its content offerings.

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Best digital SLRs for beginners

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Internet giant buys app from British teen

TOPICS: Business news Technology US internet giant Yahoo! is buying mobile news reader app Summly from the London teenager who invented it.

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Microsoft releases data on govt requests

TOPICS: Business news Technology Microsoft has for the first time released details about law enforcement requests for data, similar to the "transparency report" Google started in 2010.

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Google fined for collecting personal data

TOPICS: Business news Technology Google has been fined $7 million for collecting people's personal information as it combed neighbourhoods for its Street View service

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Authors oppose Amazon control of book web

TOPICS: Business news Technology Amazon in fight with authors over internet website addresses.

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Private data revealed by Facebook 'likes'

TOPICS: Business news Technology Researchers say Facebook 'likes' can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of a user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information.

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Android rises to top in malware threats

TOPICS: Business news Technology The free Google operating system Android accounts for 79 per cent of all malware infections on smartphones, a Finland-based security company says.

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Facebook feed becomes personal newspaper

TOPICS: Business news Technology Facebook is reorganising the stream of updates from friends at home pages into a "personalised newspaper".

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Car or bike? Toyota unveils iRoad

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More mobile phones from MWC 2013

TOPICS: Technology Mobile phones Here are some other phones that launched at the Mobile World Congress 2013. Expect to see them landing in shops in the next couple of months.