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From electric cars and space travel, to biometric security and bitcoin - our technology predictions for 2014.

Windows Phone 8,1, due in April, will bring a notification centre and Siri-like personal assistant to new devices.

Microsoft plans to tighten the integration between its Xbox One, Windows and Windows mobile with Threshold.

Tablets will become the dominant computing force in 2014 as Microsoft prepares to shelve its touch-focused Windows RT.

Police paid $750 for two bitcoins to release files encrypted by the increasingly pervasive Cryptolocker ransomware.

Nokia shareholders have voted in favour of a €5.44bn buyout of its phone-making business by Microsoft.

Windows Phone shipments up 156% in the third quarter, as Android domination continues and BlackBerry loses more ground.

Microsoft warns users of a security vulnerability with TIFF images exploited by hackers in Office and Vista.

The Nokia Lumia 1520 serves only highlight the problems Microsoft needs to address to make Windows Phone a success.

Nokia has launched two large 6in Lumia smartphones, with the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320 challenging in the phablet market.

Smartphone maker HTC posts first quarterly financial loss in 11 years of being a public company.

Wide range of affordable Nokia Lumia handsets sees Windows Phone share of UK smartphone sales reach 12%.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates admits Windows Ctrl-Alt-Delete keyboard command was a mistake.

Can Nokia's class-leading camera make the Lumia 1020 a must-have smartphone?

Nokia began life 148 years ago as a Finnish wood pulp mill, before making rubber boots, tyres and smartphones.