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BBC Technology News - 21-May-12 -------- Pakistan restores Twitter access - Pakistani authorities restore access to the social media website Twitter after a brief ban for what officials called "offensive" content". ----- Met Police to extract phone data - Mobile phone data of suspects in police custody is to be extracted and retained, regardless of whether charges are brought, the BBC has learned. ----- Silicon trick for next-gen memory - Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip. ----- Facebook shares see modest debut - Facebook shares end a volatile first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing, having initially jumped more than 10%. ----- Twitter backs web privacy effort - Micro-blogging service Twitter will support an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored. ----- Anonymous attacks Indian websites - Hacker group Anonymous has carried out a series of attacks against government and political websites in India. ----- Computer game for stroke patients - Newcastle University helps to develop a computer game to help those who have suffered strokes. ----- Government to miss cookie cut-off - Most government websites will miss the UK's deadline for complying with EU regulations over cookies, the Cabinet Office tells the BBC. ----- China Mobile in talks with Apple - China Mobile, the main mobile service provider in China and the largest in the world by users, could soon offer its customers Apple's iPhone. ----- Government may miss cloud targets - The Government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report suggests. ----- Japan launches S Korea satellite - Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, marking its entry into the launch business. ----- Privacy watchdog to meet Google - The French privacy watchdog, acting on behalf of the EU, is to meet Google to scrutinise its controversial privacy policy changes. ----- Google makes search 'more human' - Google revamps its search engine in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions with a new function, the Knowledge Graph. ----- The Pirate Bay hit by hack attack - File-sharing website The Pirate Bay appears to have been hit by a coordinated hack attack. ----- Virgin Atlantic allows air calls - Passengers flying Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using personal devices. ----- Google patents Project Glass design - Search giant Google patents the design of its augmented reality glasses, known as Project Glass. ----- Jury out in Google Oracle dispute - A jury has retired to consider claims that Google wilfully infringed patents belonging to Java developer Oracle. ----- Facebook: How the others fared - A look at a selection of internet companies that previously floated on the US stock exchange ----- Prosthetic retina in development - Scottish scientists are working on a device to restore sight in people with a form of age related blindness. ----- VIDEO: Why do gadgets keep on breaking? - An investigation into why devices stop working without anything seeming to be wrong with them ----- VIDEO: Does web privacy have a price? - Stopping websites from using tracking software could have serious consequences on the users themselves ----- VIDEO: Twitter banned in Pakistan - Pakistan's government has imposed a countrywide ban on the social media website Twitter. ----- VIDEO: Facebook founder's new status - The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, updates his status on his own Facebook page to announce he has married long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan. ----- VIDEO: Facebook shares see modest debut - Facebook shares ended their first day of trading at $38.23, barely above the company's initial pricing of $38. ----- VIDEO: The low-cost tablets battling Apple - LJ Rich takes a look at the low-cost tablets battling Apple's dominance in India. ----- AUDIO: Taxman targets online traders - HMRC is targetting people who use sites such as eBay and Amazon to sell items online at a profit. ----- VIDEO: Technology and texting tips for MPs - MPs have had their fingers burned by texting and technology, and may have regretted the odd text or tweet. ----- VIDEO: Electric unicycles and other tech news - Honda Motors unveils a new auto-balancing unicycle that can be controlled hands free - and other technology news stories. ----- VIDEO: Creative brains imagine a smarter tomorrow - The creative brains studying at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York are showcasing their ideas for a smarter tomorrow. ----- Facebook: Living 'the hacker way' - Will Facebook keep innovating post-IPO? ----- Asian trading heads for online - The social networks breaking Asia's stock market traditions ----- Can Facebook crack China? - Can Facebook crack the Chinese market? ----- Tidal power gets a stormy birth - Scotland's latest bid for tidal power ----- Facebook's first female engineer - How the social network’s first female engineer beat old-fashioned views in Silicon Valley ----- Is social media changing how we complain? - Has social media shifted balance when making complaints? ----- Robotic arm controlled by thought - Paralysed patients control a robotic arm only with their thoughts -----

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