Swedish giant Ikea has made a fan site featuring ideas for customising the firm's furniture remove all adverts.
The founder of IkeaHackers.net said she had been issued with a "cease and desist" letter in March, in which Ikea had said the site's name had infringed upon its intellectual property rights.
An agreement was reached in which IkeaHackers could keep its domain, "without commercial elements".
An Ikea representative said other sites using its name "creates confusion".
Jules Yap, who started IkeaHackers in 2006, wrote in a blogpost: "Needless to say, I am crushed.
"I don't have an issue with them protecting their trademark but I think they could have handled it better.
"I am a person, not a corporation. A blogger who obviously is on their side. Could they not have talked to me like normal people do without issuing a C&D [cease and desist]?"
Ms Yap added that she had agreed to Ikea's demand to remove advertising because she did not have "deep enough pockets to fight a mammoth company in court".
Speaking to the BBC, an Ikea representative said: "We feel a great responsibility to our customers and that they always can trust Ikea... many people want to know what really is connected to Ikea - and what isn´t. And we think that people should have that right.
"When other companies use the Ikea name for economic gain, it creates confusion and rights are lost."
Fans of the site expressed their outrage at the decision, on social media sites.
Don Krypton posted on Google Plus: "This is just... I never would have thought Ikea would do this! You've created a real fan site for that company and they should be thankful."
13 June 2014Last updated at 01:13By Leo KelionTechnology desk editor
Xbox One owners are complaining that a new TV advert is switching their consoles on without their permission.
The ad - featuring Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul - has the actor say "Xbox On" near its start.
The instruction appears to trigger the machine's Kinect voice/motion sensor, activating the console.
A spokesman for the firm said it had no comment at this time, but noted that previous ads had also featured voice commands.
Many people have posted comments about the problem on social media sites.
"Aaron Paul just turned my Xbox One via the Xbox advert. (Which triggered the IR [infrared] blaster to switch my TV off..)" tweeted Qassim Farid, a UK-based tech blogger.
Chesterfield-based Tom Neal wrote: "@Xbox your new TV advert is annoying the hell outta me. Aaron Paul keeps turning my console on… #stooooop"
The effect has also been noted on news discussion site Reddit's Xbox section, with one commentator writing: "Damn commercial keeps turning on my xbox! Lol"
The post reflects the attitude of many console owners who have posted about the matter who appear more bemused than angered by the glitch.
This is not the first time such an effect has been reported.
In November Xbox One owner Tim Kimberl posted a video to YouTube showing that an internet ad that featured the command "Xbox go to Dead Rising 3" launched the game on his system.
Users affected by the issue do have the ability to turn off the Kinect sensor, which prevents the console responding to voice commands.
The issue has parallels with an effect played for laughs in the TV series 30 Rock where a voice-controlled television went haywire when on-screen characters mentioned its trigger words.
Unbundled Kinect
The problem has arisen in the same week that Microsoft began selling a cheaper version of the Xbox One without the Kinect.
It said it made the move - timed to coincide with the E3 video games expo - following feedback from gamers who did not want to pay extra for the accessory.
The decision allows the machine to retail at the same price as Sony's PlayStation 4.
Microsoft's press event at the Los Angeles show was notable for hardly featuring the Kinect.
Only a dancing game, a Disney motion-controlled music rhythm title, and an indie game called Fru - which allows players to control a character by making body shapes - appeared to take advantage of the feature.
However, Microsoft did announce outside the show that a software update would soon allow developers access to more graphics power when the Kinect was not in use. This may help address complaints that several cross-platform games offer higher resolutions and frame rates on the PS4 than their Xbox equivalents.
However, the new ad signals that the US firm intends to keep promoting the Kinect as a feature that distinguishes its machine from its Japanese rival's, even if the price quoted at its end is for the standalone machine.
A European USB iPhone charger sold between October 2009 and September 2012 "may overheat and pose a safety risk", says manufacturer, Apple.
The US firm is offering to exchange the defective items free of charge.
In an advice note, the company urges those who own the adapter to stop using it, although it says the malfunction only occurs in "rare cases".
The model was sold in 37 countries, including some countries in Africa and Asia, but not in the UK.
The item was shipped with iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S models, and was also sold as a separate accessory.
Its model number is A1300 and it features the letters "CE" in solid grey.
It was sold in the following countries:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Vietnam
This is not the first time Apple has exchanged USB adapters. In 2008, the company offered to exchange defective iPhone 3G chargers in the US, Japan, Canada and several Latin American countries.
Apple has also offered to replace counterfeit or third-party iPhone chargers sold to customers in China, amid concerns over safety.
The US government will auction $18m (£11m) worth of the virtual currency Bitcoin, which was seized by the FBI when it shut down the Silk Road online marketplace in October last year.
The site, which operated on the so-called "dark net", traded in drugs and other illegal goods.
Payments were made via crypto-currencies, to ensure anonymity.
The Bitcoins were seized during the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind Silk Road.
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Silk Road took its name from the historic trade routes spanning Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
News reports and other internet chatter helped it become notorious. However, most users would not have been able to stumble upon the site as the service could only be accessed through a service called Tor - a facility that routes traffic through many separate encrypted layers of the net to hide data identifiers.
Tor was invented by the US Naval Research Laboratory and has subsequently been used by journalists and free speech campaigners, among others, to safeguard people's anonymity.
But it has also been used as a means to hide illegal activities, leading it to be dubbed "the dark web".
Payments for goods on Silk Road were made with the virtual currency Bitcoin, which can be hard to monitor.
Court documents from the FBI said the site had just under a million registered users, but investigators said they did not know how many were active.
The 29-year-old, who was known online by the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts, or DPR, is currently awaiting trial on narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering offences.
In a statement, the US Marshals Service, which is conducting the sale, said the 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins up for auction were those that had "resided on Silk Road servers", but did not include the stash on Ross Ulbricht's personal computers.
Ulbricht's "wallets" are thought to be worth more than $85m at current Bitcoin exchange rates. He is contesting the claim that the money was earned illegally.
The Bitcoins offered in this auction have been forfeited to the US government.
The US authority added that it would "not sell to any person who is acting on behalf of or in concert with the Silk Road and/or Ross William Ulbricht, and bidders will be required to so certify".
Last year, Carnegie Mellon University estimated that over $1.22m (£786,183) worth of trading took place on the Silk Road every month.
Prospective bidders will have to put forward a deposit of $200,000, and all offers must be made in cash.
The price of Bitcoin, as measured by CoinDesk, fell following news of the sale, but has since made a modest recovery.
Video game veteran David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
The honour was given for the work he has done for both the UK's video game and computer industries.
Mr Braben got started in video games as a teenager as one half of the duo that created the hugely successful Elite space trading game.
More recently he was instrumental in helping to get the Raspberry Pi bare-bones computer project up and running.
He helped to set up the Foundation that did the development work on the £25 credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer.
The tiny computer was developed in a bid to get young people interested in computer science and coding but has proved a bigger hit with older people who have put the device to all kinds of uses.
Mr Braben got his start in the computer world during the early 1980s when the first cheap home computers became available. He wrote the Elite video game with friend Ian Bell which gave players the chance to pilot a spaceship around an open-ended galaxy trading and fighting off pirates.
In late 2012, Mr Braben ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to develop Elite: Dangerous - a modern-day update of the game. The campaign raised £1.5m and the game is due to be released towards the end of 2014.
Mr Braben was one of several technology entrepreneurs and innovators who received awards in the honours.
Dr Paul Hawkins was made an OBE for his work to create the "Hawk Eye" ball-tracking system used at major sporting events such as Wimbledon.
Also honoured were Belinda Parmar, founder of Lady Geek, who was appointed OBE for services to women in technology; Dr David Gow becomes a CBE for creating the prosthetic I-Limb Hand that has helped people with upper limb injuries and Alastair Lukies, founder of Monitise, was appointed a CBE for his entrepreneurial work.
Twitter has told Newsbeat it continues to "learn" about the best way to keep its users safe.
After criticism over high profile cases of abuse, the company admits it faces "new challenges".
"We continue to learn from incidents like that," said Sinead McSweeney, Twitter's director of public policy for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"If you stop learning, you stop providing a good service to your users."
Newsbeat was given unique access to Twitter's European HQ in Dublin, to find out how the company tries to keep users safe online.
Among the 150 employees on site are the user support and trust and safety teams.
Staff receive reports from users and assess what action should be taken.
Newsbeat visited Twitter's European HQ in Dublin to see some of the measures used to keep users safe
"They are providing a 24/7 service to our users worldwide," Ms McSweeney said.
"It can be serious work, with potentially grave consequences.
"But the teams here are trained to deal with those issues and we have policies and processes in place... so that they know how to get in touch where there is an emergency or somebody's life is in immediate danger."
Twitter faced calls to take tougher action on abusive messages after feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez was repeatedly threatened.
Labour MP Stella Creasey also spoke about about the abuse she received on the social network.
Although Twitter will suspend or block some accounts, the company admitted it cannot keep individuals away completely.
In her first interview as global head of online safety outreach at Twitter, Patricia Cartes told Newsbeat they will try to keep repeated offenders off the platform.
"It's very hard but we certainly wouldn't want to let people whose only purpose it is to abuse others on the platform," she said.
In addition to abuse and threatening behaviour, Twitter also deals with reports of users at risk of self harm or suicide.
Patricia Cartes, global head of online safety outreach at Twitter, said abusive users can be persuaded to change
"Because this area is so sensitive we strive to look at reports within a matter of minutes," explained Ms Cartes.
Some users have urged Twitter to monitor its content more closely.
"With one billion tweets every two days we are neither in a position nor would it be technically possible to proactively moderate or monitor content," Ms McSweeney said.
"It is an open platform and we want, to the greatest extent possible, to be neutral."
She added: "There are people who have an approach of just banning or blocking content, then there are the approaches of educating people... which is to the greatest extent, the approach and philosophy that we take."
Twitter encourages users to report problems by providing as much information about the issue as possible
Twitter rejected the challenge that its teams dealing with abuse were just scratching the surface.
"I want to believe that we are doing something very meaningful and it's something that motivates me and the team to come into work every day," said Ms Cartes.
"Because of the nature of the platform and the features we provide, abuse continues to evolve, you never know what you're going to encounter when you come in to work.
"But at the same time most of what we see is positive and we try to remain positive."
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Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted.
Companies had not been allowed to make use of images where features smaller than 50cm were visible.
But one imaging firm, Digital Globe, said it would be able to sell images that showed features as small as 31cm.
One lawyer told the BBC he expected "repercussions" from people worried about their privacy.
Marc Dautlich, from Pinsent Masons, said there may be "national security considerations" to address as well.
Currently, some sensitive locations around the world are obscured or blurred on mapping websites.
The decision was made after Digital Globe applied to the US Department of Commerce asking for restrictions to be lifted.
'Manholes and mailboxes'
Digital Globe said new satellites would be launched to take advantage of the ruling.
The company's Worldview-3 satellite is due to launch in August and will be able to show "key features such as manholes and mailboxes".
"In the past, collecting sub-50cm resolution required chartering and flying aircraft," the company said.
"This is expensive, time-consuming, and can be limited by denied airspace or dangerous conditions."
Jeffrey Tarr, Digital Globe's chief executive, said: "We are very pleased and appreciative that the US Department of Commerce has made this forward-leaning change to our nation's policy that will fuel innovation, create new high-tech jobs, and advance the nation's commanding lead in this strategically important industry.
"Our customers will immediately realise the benefits of this updated regulation, as for the first time, we will be able to make our very best imagery available to the commercial market."
As well as for general public use, the higher-quality images can have other uses, the company said, such as aiding agriculture efforts and disaster relief.
Google recently announced it was planning to purchase an alternative satellite imaging company, Skybox, for $500m (£295m). The company currently has one satellite in orbit - SkySat-1 - but hopes to eventually launch a total of 24.
The satellites may also be used to provide internet access to currently unconnected or restricted parts of the world.
Internet TV service YouView may have to change its name after the High Court ruled it had infringed another company's trademark.
Telecoms firm Total registered the name YourView for one of its online portal products in 2006.
A judge ruled that YouView was "confusingly similar" to YourView.
Total said it would now apply for an injunction to prevent further use of the YouView brand. YouView said it planned to appeal.
In a statement, YouView said: "We maintain there is no confusion between our consumer-facing TV service, YouView, and the business-to-business billing platform, Yourview, provided by Total Ltd."
But Total's lawyer Paul Gordon said: "Total's rights were plainly infringed and it had to stand firm against a much larger and better-funded opponent.
"The judgment of Mr Justice Sales has vindicated Total's position. It shows that the courts of this country will protect parties against businesses such as YouView who infringe intellectual property rights.
"YouView were made well aware of Total's rights before they launched the service under the infringing name yet they chose to launch it under that name regardless."
Total added it would now seek an injunction to "prevent any further use of the name YouView, together with financial payment and legal costs".
Sugar
YouView is an internet TV service launched in July 2012 as a joint venture between BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 - as well as telecoms companies BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva.
Lord Sugar was the company's non-executive chairman until he stood down in March 2013.
The company says it has more than one million users across the UK, and eventually aims to increase that number to 10 million.
The service's working title had been Project Canvas, changing to YouView in September 2010.
The name caused early concern - intellectual property lawyers warned that it could be confused with Google's video sharing site YouTube.
Legal action from Total to sue YouView was launched in November 2012.
On Monday, Mr Justice Sales ruled that the convergence of the telecoms and TV industry - as demonstrated by YouView's backers - risked a "strong likelihood of confusion on the part of the public".
An international competition for students to design video games is underway in Dundee.
Hundreds of teams are expected to enter Dare to be Digital and bid to build a working game prototype in eight weeks.
This year's competition was launched by Sophia George, the V&A museum's Games Designer in Residence and a former Dare to be Digital winner.
Games by the 15 finalists will go on show to the public and industry experts in August.
The three main awards at the competition, run by Abertay University, are sponsored by PlayStation First, the academic development programme of Sony.
Teams from across the globe have travelled to Scotland for this year's contest, from as far afield as China, India, Malta and the USA.
Fifteen will be chosen to develop games, which the public get the chance to play at the Dare ProtoPlay festival in August, also in Dundee.
Three winning teams are then put forward to compete for a Bafta Ones to Watch Award.
'Incredibly tough'
Sophia George's team won that award in 2012 after triumphing in the previous year's Dare to be Digital contest.
Last year she was named the Games Designer in Residence of the V&A museum, which is building a £45m new outpost in Dundee.
She said: "Dare to be Digital was the first opportunity I had to work with a team to build a complete game, and it changed my life.
"All of the 15 teams who are spending the summer at Abertay University building a brand new game face an incredibly tough challenge, but when they put their games on show at the Dare ProtoPlay festival in August they will be ready for a career in games."
Dr Maria Stukoff, head of PlayStation First, said the competition helped nurture "talented game developers who understand the complexities of making working game prototypes.
She added: "We want to make sure we take an active role in the future of the UK's game development industry, and Dare to be Digital is a central part of the UK's seeding programme."
16 June 2014Last updated at 15:35By Joe MillerTechnology Reporter
The Iraqi government appears to have blocked Facebook, Twitter and other social media, amid escalating combat.
Users in the country attempting to visit these sites are greeted by a message saying the Ministry of Communications has barred access.
The move comes after Islamist insurgents used Twitter to post a graphic image of a beheaded man, and to spread propaganda messages.
A Facebook spokesperson said the block was "a matter of concern".
One source in Iraq told the BBC that access to the internet was entirely restricted in some provinces.
Commenting on the developments, a YouTube spokesperson said: "We're seeing reports that some users are not able to access YouTube in Iraq. There is no technical issue on our side and we're looking into the situation."
On Friday, Twitter's public policy unit tweeted: "Users in #Iraq are reporting issues accessing our service. We're investigating their reports and we hope service will be restored quickly."
A Facebook spokesperson said: "We are disturbed by reports of access issues in Iraq and are investigating. Limiting access to internet services - essential for communication and commerce for millions of people - is a matter of concern for the global community."
Although internet use was heavily controlled during Saddam Hussein's presidency, Iraqis have since enjoyed open access to the net.
