BUSINESS

Amazon may be releasing a second, larger Kindle Fire tablet to rival the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 and iPad 2, industry sources claim.

It's been a busy year for racing games, offering driving fans everything from three thousand miles of open Ibiza roads in 'Test Drive Unlimited 2', to the streets of San Francisco in 'Driver' and the Top Gear Test Track in 'Forza Motorsport 4'.

Having fought an election campaign for six months on a bitter message of austerity, the new Spanish Prime Minister and leader of the Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, now faces the difficult part.

Last week,China's National Bureau of Statistics released the welcome news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) year-on-year rate of inflation to October 2011 had fallen to 5.5 per cent, markedly down from September's 6.1 per cent. The CPI had peaked at 6.5 per cent in July 2011.

Former executive alleges "wild behaviour" by other bosses.

The new roles will be permanent and will be based in West Bromwich.

Two Barclays back employees have been sentenced to five years imprisonment following their roles in £1.3 million worth of fraud on old age pensioners.

Cloud computing, such as iTunes Match, iCloud and Amazon Music will not work in the UK because our infrastructure is outdated and overpriced.

The iPad 3 lives and its retina screen is being shipped to Apple right now, if the rumour mills are to be believed.

Reports claim that the iPhone 4S can be unlocked to work on T-Mobile in America without the need for jailbreaking, or running any software.

Hot on the heels of the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon is tipped to be preparing a Fire smartphone, with a bargain basement price tag and Android operating system.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned UK investors against the property developers who offer land banks with future development prospects.

Hard drive chip maker Marvell gave a cautious revenue forecast, as widespread flooding in Thailand continues to damage the computer industry, severely limiting production.

A tense meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will take place in Berlin as the pair thrash out their differences on a number of crucial issues.

Rockstar this week released a video demonstrating some of the new features in the up-coming Max Payne 3, highlighting targeting and shooting, movement and animation, artificial intelligence and Bullet Time.

The shop will be open for five days on an experimental basis during the first week of December.

The issue of Financial Transaction Tax, also known as Tobin Tax, is likely to dominate the talks.

The amount was spent for buying “technical support” for the department’s engineering and procurement project.

Skyrim developers - which received more than 50 perfect scores from the world's media - has shipped more than seven million copies, generating over $450 million in global sales in its first two days.

Just days after Apple released iOS 5.0.1 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, hackers have jailbroken the new firmware, but an untethered hack is still in the works.

The Treasury is refusing to give a direct response to a plea by four airline chiefs to scrap Air Passenger Duty (APD).

A German technology blog is claiming that Apple will soon be releasing iOS 5.0.2, an update that will once again attempt to fix the on-going iPhone battery issues.

'Super Mario 3D Land' for the Nintendo 3DS launches across Europe tomorrow, November 18, and after selling over 340,000 copies in its opening four days in Japan, Nintendo is expecting good things from Mario's first outing in 3D.

The 2009 oil spill was considered "completely predictable and absolutely preventable".

The tax makes Britain a less preferred holiday destination and penalises British holidaymakers, the companies say.

Sasha Grey has caused a media storm in the U.S. after she was invited to read to seven to eleven year olds in an elementary school in California.

The fashion chain said profits for the third quarter of its financial year were £1.8 million below last year.

State-owned Northern Rock sold to Richard Branson's Virgin Money in a £747 million deal.

Energy consumption is expected to be lower thanks to a slow start of winter this year.