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Mark Prigg, Science and Technology Correspondent

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Death knell for CDs

It is the beginning of the end for the CD. One of Britain's oldest hi-fi firms today announced it is to stop making compact disc players because of a lack of demand.

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London's best cycling road 'like country lane'

Capital's best roads for cyclists have been revealed in the London Cycling Campaign annual awards

Web scammers catch victims by emailing fake job offers

One in six Londoners has been targeted in a multi-million-pound scam that involves fake job offers being emailed from seemingly legitimate companies

Mills & Boon in love with e-book

The bodice-ripping Mills & Boon novel has made the leap into cyber romance

London's IT pioneers get wired up in nude charity calendar

With their modesty covered by only a cable, 24 London internet entrepreneurs have bared all for a charity calendar

Playing a Wii can help you lose weight

Playing Nintendo's Wii console is as effective as “moderately intense” exercise, scientists said today.

Plastic boat that takes a lot of bottle to sail

Explorer David de Rothschild spoke for the first time today about his mission to sail from San Francisco to Sydney in a catamaran made from plastic bottles

Triumph of the Apple entrepreneurs

Apple's App Store, for its iPhone and iPod Touch, is a simple idea - small bits of software you can download to your phone to add a game or some other application to it

Violent video game breaks records with 4.7m sales in a day

Computer game Call of Duty sold 4.7million copies on its opening day, making it the biggest entertainment launch in history

Sainsbury’s says sorry for Armistice Day game gaffe

Sainsbury's has been forced to apologise to customers after advertising a violent war game over its in-store Tannoy on Armistice Day

Invisibility cloak? We can see it happening, say scientists

It may sound like something from a Harry Potter book, but London researchers were today given the go-ahead for a £4.9million project to create a real invisibility cloak

Computers made easy for the over-50s

It is the ultimate computer for the silver surfer.

Big-screen rival takes on iPhone

Review: It is the phone that experts say could finally topple Apple's iPhone as the most desirable mobile

iPhone users can watch Sky TV for £6 a month

Sky launches the first commercial TV service for Apple's iPhone, allowing subscribers channels live on their handset for the first time

Photograph Naomi Campbell or design ski goggles for 2010 Olympics at ‘ebay for artists’ auction

A new ‘eBay for artists’ will let members of the public compete for contracts to photograph Naomi Campbell, design ski goggles for the 2010 Winter Games and remix a Boy George track

Home cinemas replace swimming pools as must-haves for the wealthy

Home cinema replaces the swimming pool and gym as the must-have room in the modern home

Recreate the cinema feel in your own home

All you need is a big screen, the right seats, a projector if you can run to one, and you too can have the authentic home-cinema experience

Google reveals files it keeps on your web habits

Google has launched a site revealing just what it knows about you.

£3,000 gadgets in a commuter’s bag

Survey reveals that Londoners regularly take more than £3,000 of technology on their daily journeys

Computer error hits C-charge

Thousands of motorists were left unable to pay the congestion charge after a computer glitch.

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