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Joining the Samsung and HTC-led anti-Apple iPhone armada, Chinese phone-maker ZTE has unveiled its new Spirit Windows Phone Mango powered smartphone.

Defence company BAE has finally confirmed its plans to cut over 3,000 jobs across the UK, with most of the cuts occurring in the military aircraft division.

Will Stelios’ New Airline Fastjet Rival Easyjet? EasyJet, the UK’s largest budget airline, which carries more passengers than any other United Kingdom airline is set to be faced with shock competition from one of its own in Stelios Haji-Ioannou who, according to reports is set to launch a new airline called FastJet.

Despite the lack of any official information, with the iPhone 5's rumoured release date just around the corner, analysts and consumers alike have already begun to speculate which future devices could topple the fabled smartphone.

HTC like to associate bizarre names with their smartphones; from their Gingerbread operating system - soon to be replaced by Ice Cream Sandwich - to their Snapdragon processors, while the handset names range from Desire and Sensation to Envy and Rhyme.

A shipwreck loaded with silver worth more than £130million has been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic. Odyssey Marine Exploration announced that it has confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site of the SS Gairsoppa nearly 4,700 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic, approximately 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters.

AQA to give more points to less fortunate students

New reports have emerged suggesting Google's updated Ice Cream Sandwich operating system will be released in late October, placing it squarely in the same rumoured release window as Apple's highly anticipated iOS 5.

British Labour politician and the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls presented a 5-point theory to recover from the economic downturn.

Facebook is said to be launching its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event sometime this month.

The search engine has finally become a teenager today, celebrating its 13th birthday with a new doodle on its homepage.

The Indian telecom regulator has imposed a limit which means that no one can send more than 100 text messages per day, in an attempt to curb marketing messages.

Defence Analyst Francis Tusa has claimed that the Libyan campaign can cost £1.75 billion to British government.

A British cargo ship carrying silver worth £135 million in today's money has been located deep in the North Atlantic, 70 years after it was sunk by a German torpedo.

The Euro opened Tuesday away from its eight month low on the back of a report in Europe that leaders are considering 'beefing' up its bail out fund prompted short covering Reuters reports Tuesday.Asian currencies also rebounded after huge sales in the last two weeks, helping to ease the global worries of contagion from the Euro zone crisis. A group of the worlds 20 largest economies met this weekend to discuss the world's economic fears but were unable to offer anty concrete steps t...

After 60 years of designing, a driverless, battery powered and laser-guided pod is ferrying passengers between terminals at London's Heathrow Airport.

Following the partnership between Spotify and Facebook last week, the music streaming service now demands that new users have a Facebook account before signing up.

Following the recent shift in focus from idle speculation regarding Apple's, unconfirmed, iPhone 5 to its, also unconfirmed, iPad 3, analysts have rushed to quash speculation that the company is making moves to release the fabled tablet sooner rather than later.

The biggest "game changing" feature of the iPhone 5 is tipped to be Assistant, an evolution of Voice Control which lets users record reminders and send text messages by speaking to their phone, according to tech site 9to5mac.com.

New York police have issued a fresh statement denying the growing number of police brutality allegations emerging from protesters involved in the Occupy Wall Street campaign.

Blogging network Tumblr has this week raised $85 million (£54.8m) in funding from a number of investors, including chairman of Virgin, Richard Branson, according to the New York Times.

Amazon may be set to announce a tablet computer next week, after inviting the media to a press conference due to take place next Wednesday.

Unofficial statistics suggest Google+ memberships have increased by over 30% since opening their doors last Wednesday, with the number of registered users at an estimated 44 million.

Boeing's long-awaited 787 Dreamliner will be officially delivered to Japan's All Nippon Airways after three years of delays.

U.S. mobile network operator, Verizon Wireless has stepped into the legal battle between Apple and Samsung, claiming that banning Samsung's 4G devices would harm both Verizon and consumers.

First surfacing on Friday 23 September 2011 and therefore most likely submerged in the Eurozone crisis and its repercussions, BAE Systems is expected to announce some 3,000 redundancies in the very near future, thereby reducing its military aircraft division to some 11,000 staff. The axe is expected to fall particularly severely at the company's Warton and Brough bases.

Phone regulator Phonepayplus has issued a warner to smartphone users, after uncovering two applications that charge the user without their knowledge or consent.

New reports have emerged that Apple is rejecting store employees' vacation requests between Oct 9. and 15, supporting the theory that the iPhone 5 will be launched in October.

Vodafone is currently giving the iPhone 4 away for free on its £39 a month contract and O2 is giving away the iPhone 3GS for free on a £21.50 a month contract, suggesting that the neworks are shifting old stock ahead of an iPhone 5 launch.