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Honda is paving the way for hydrogen power, opening the UK's first open-access refuelling station in Swindon as the company pushes to bring hydrogen powered cars to the masses.

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has broken into the top 20 richest Americans for the first time, according to the Forbes 400 rich list for 2011.

A new report has emerged questioning the slew of recent rumours suggesting Apple planned to unveil two new iPhone devices on 4 October.

Today is a big day for UK gamers, as online gaming system OnLive - which requires no expensive console or high-end computer - is coming to our shores, and is bringing with it a whole heap of special offers.

A Facebook employee has let slip about the predicted music streaming service, due to be announced this evening, by mentioning the new feature on his Twitter page.

Good news for owners of Windows Phone7 handsets; the first major update, named 7.5 Mango, will be available to download "in the next week or two", Microsoft announced on Thursday.

Reports have emerged suggesting Apple board member Al Gore has confirmed Apple's next entries into its iPhone franchise will be hitting stores this October.

A leading British Alcohol Company is targeting the teenagers by advertising vodka through Facebook, says British Medical Association.

Apple has won a significant victory in its ongoing patent war with pretty much every other tech company in the world, securing 40 new patents in China, adding yet another layer of legal protection around its iPhone and iPad series of devices.

Adding to the pandemic sized number of "leaked" smartphone images sweeping through the tech world, a new report has emerged claiming to have obtained official images of HTC's unconfirmed Explorer smartphone.

It started out as a simple iPhone game, then along came the soft toys and clothing, the second game and talks of a feature film, but now "Angry Birds" may soon be heard squawking in branches of Starbucks.

Tech site All Things Digital has issued a fresh report alleging Apple's new CEO Tim Cook will announce the iPhone 5 during the company's next "big media event" on 4 October.

The BBC has today updated its home page, introducing an entirely new design with iPlayer content and rich images appearing front and centre.

A new report has emerged claiming to have leaked an internal T-Mobile news posting, confirming the existence of Apple's fabled iPhone 5 smartphone.

The Tata Nano, the model that lies beneath the glinting bodywork, is marketed as the world's cheapest car with a price tag of a little over £1,300. The gold version is worth an estimated 220 million rupees (£2.9m).

Apple is tipped to be releasing a white iPod touch with minor changes in October, alongside the iPhone 5 and a redesigned iPod nano.

A new unconfirmed report has emerged suggesting that Apple plans to announce a new version of iPod Touch alongside its highly anticipated, though currently unconfirmed, iPhone 5 smartphone in the very near future.

Facebook may be set to incorporate music, films and television into profile pages, with users able to consume and share multimedia content on the social network like never before.

Facebook has decided that we need more buttons, and that "Liking" just isn't enough. Sadly we won't be seeing the sought-after "Dislike" button just yet, but according to TechCrunch we'll soon get three new buttons: "Read", "Listened" and "Watched".

I was speaking to a young couple from Madrid a couple of weeks back. They were on a camping holiday, a treat paid partly by their respective parents. Things were very bad in Spain they told me and both were most concerned about getting work. The young lady said: "Everybody's going to either Madrid or Barcelona...Really the only two places in the country where you can find anything. It's not good in the north (of Spain) and the south is just devastated."

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Google has this week launched its Wallet application, which allows users to pay for items by swiping their mobile phone on a terminal in retail stores.

Apples stock price has risen 15% since the departure of Steve Jobs last month, proving many analysts wrong who predicted the company to suffer under the leadership of Tim Cook.

New reports from numerous media outlets have emerged claiming Samsung already has plans to mount fresh legal action against Apple's, currently unconfirmed, next iPhone.

Margaret Hodge, MP and Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, has termed a project which initiates nine regional centres for fire and rescue services a 'complete failure.' She said that the FiReControl project had wasted £469 million.

A new allegedly leaked image showing the inclusion of the iPad 2's A5 chip in a mysterious new iPhone device, has led to fresh speculation that the chip may be used to power Apple's next entry into its iPhone franchise.

A new anonymous source has posted alleged details of the speculated Google Nexus Prime and Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphones.

A "leaked" image allegedly taken from U.S. network AT&T's internal computer system suggests Apple's next entry into its iPhone franchise may be the iPhone 4S, rather than the next generation iPhone 5 handset.

Building on its previous campaigns which saw a number of women pose naked, Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has revealed plans to launch a new pornography website.