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A man in the US state of Pennsylvania accused of a robbery at a narcotics police convention has been described as probably the state's dumbest criminal.

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Mobile phone carrier Vodafone is bringing back free Twitter texts, after it struck a deal with the micro-blogging site

the free service was disbanded back in August.

I just hope people do not use this feature to download copyrighted materials which are not authorized to be downloaded, or at least not materials copyrighted to litigation-happy RIAA Big 4 record labels. No doubt, if their song files were downloaded through this method, the record companies would sit back for awhile, derive profit from the promotional excitement generated for their dying industry, and then -- armed with Facebook's data -- sue the pants off all the hapless Facebook users who fell for it.

Soon you may be seeing links to download copies of Star Wars or the newest Britney Spears album pop up your Facebook news feed. This is because The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most popular websites for file sharing and torrents, now allows you to share links to download these files right from your Facebook () profile.

The Pirate Bay site now includes links under torrents to “Share on Facebook”. Once posted to your profile, your Facebook friends can click the link on Facebook to begin the download right away, provided they already have a torrenting client installed.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is taking on Scribd, the free document sharing service that has been likened to a “YouTube for documents”.

discovered that a number of her books were being illegally shared on the site, after being pirated and uploaded by Scribd members.

A higher percentage of 15-24 year olds in the UK have watched a music video on YouTube than on dedicated music channels, according to a new study.

The report found that 57% of 15-24 year olds watched music on YouTube, compared to 56% watching them on TV.

According to the oh-so-eccentric rumour mill, Asian computing firm Acer is will be launching an Android-powered phone in September of this year.

will feature a touchscreen and will be among four other phones launched at the same time, which fits in nicely with the roadmap Acer gave us at its recent event.

This means it can deliver high-definition gameplay from remote data centres to gamers with broadband connections, by-passing the need for traditional disk-based consoles made by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

Online game Entropia Universe has been granted a licence to be a bank

Issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, the licence means the game can be more closely tied to the real world finances of players.