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Companies who send out spam texts are being warned that investigating them is a high priority

The race to make RAM that keeps its memory in a power outage

Firms face raids and fines of up to £500,000 for sending unsolicited text messages about credit or compensation.

The social network and Washington State sue a marketing firm over claims that it deceived users by hiding 'Like' buttons. The firm denies the charge.

The Russian man accused by Microsoft of being behind the Kelihos botnet attack insists he is "absolutely not guilty".

Twitter says it now has the technology to censor tweets on a country by country basis, a move which is criticised by freedom of information campaigners.

A European Parliament rapporteur stands down in protest as a controversial anti-piracy agreement is signed by several countries.

While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying towards the edge of space does not always have to be rocket science.

A crowdsourced version of the sci-fi classic Star Wars: A New Hope becomes an internet hit after nearly three years in production. This and more in this week's tech news.

Kate Russell looks at ways to keep motivated when exercising and new innovations for education websites.

An £80m Home Office programme to give police forces Blackberrys and other mobile devices has been criticised by the National Audit Office.

Military experts gathered in London this week to discuss the growing threat of cyber-attacks to international security.

The firm's UK boss responds to claims its smartphones are falling out of favour

With half the world online by 2016, the web economy in the G20 countries is set to nearly double in size to $4.2tn (£2.7tn), research suggests.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics announces a 17% rise in profits in the last three months of 2011, as smartphone sales boosted earnings.

A bomb found in a Co Fermanagh field could have been there for years, police have said.

Heavy weather forced salvage crews to suspend pumping thousands of tonnes of fuel from the wrecked Costa Concordia liner Saturday, though recovery operations continued and divers found another body.

Senegal's opposition called Saturday for popular resistance against ageing leader Abdoulaye Wade as the capital reeled from riots that erupted after the top court said he could run for a third term.

Cuba's Communist Party opened an unprecedented two-day conference here Saturday to press for a "change of mentality" in the country's single-party political system to match efforts to reform the economy.

John Terry and Anton Ferdinand were spared an awkward moment before the match between QPR and Chelsea after the Football Association (FA) allowed the team handshake to be cancelled.

Disability rights campaigners blocked Regent Street in central London on Saturday in a protest over welfare reform.

Presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich barnstormed Florida on Saturday, in the closing days of a bitter race for the biggest state yet in the Republican nominating contest.

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The Slovenian parliament confirmed conservative Janez Jansa as prime minister on Saturday, almost two months after an inconclusive December 4 election, parliamentary speaker Gregor Virant said. Jansa has 15 days to put forward a cabinet charged with driving economic growth and introducing reforms to stop the country's credit rating from being cut - but he has a corruption trial hanging over him, which could derail his premiership if he were found guilty. The cabinet must be confirmed by parliament, in which Jansa's five-party coalition has a solid majority. ...

Around 15,000 people Saturday thronged a city in the Russian Urals in a rally organised by labour groups to show mass working-class support for Vladimir Putin's bid for a new Kremlin term, police said.

The chief executive of the taxpayer-funded Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is facing mounting pressure to follow the bank's chairman and waive his bonus of almost £1 million.