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Apple’s shares were up eight percent after the technology giant posted a fourth quarter profit of $97.4 billion and its market value reached $419 billion on Thursday.

The iPhone 5 will have an October release date and feature LTE networking allowing the smartphone to download data much faster than the iPhone 4S, a leading analyst claims.

Wife of Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino defends husband from allegations that he abandoned ship before everyone was saved.

Twitter has announced that it can withhold tweets from users in entire nations, in an attempt to satisfy every country's interpretation of freedom of speech.

With the iPad 3 due to be announced in a matter of weeks, Adam Lashinsky has shed some light on Apple's extreme secrecy leading up to a product launch.

The Motorola RAZR is a super-slim, powerful smartphone with a sturdy design and striking screen aimed at stealing some thunder from the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S2.

The release of a number of visually stunning video game titles in 2011 made for one incredibly action-packed year. Check out a slideshow detailing the 10 most anticipated video games, across all the three platforms, for the year to come...

The Siri personal assistant on Apple's iPhone 4S can now be configured to offer many more features, thanks to a program for jailbroken phones.

The Apple iPhone 5 is to soon be put into production and a range of prototypes with larger four-inch screens have been spotted, according to a Foxconn worker.

This is Max Payne we're talking about... and where Payne goes, trouble is sure to follow. Make sure you travel with him...

Aircraft manufacturers in UK receive welcome boost as Norwegian airline places huge order for planes.

London Underground commuters will soon be able to access the internet in 120 stations on the tube network, as Wi-Fi will be installed before the Olympic Games.

O2 has issued an apology for the major security flaw which saw the mobile network accidently leak users' mobile phone numbers to every website they visited.

The Information Commissioner's Office is to contact O2 about a possible breach of the Data Protection Act, after the network has been accused of sharing users' numbers with every website they visit.

The Nokia Lumia 910 is fantastically rumored to precede the launch of the Lumia 900. If there is any truth to that rumor, expect the former to launch in May and the latter in June.

Homer49, a hacker, has successfully demonstrated full remote play capability on Vita through a firmware v3.55 hack exploit.

Petrolplus bankruptcy leads to upfront tax demand, says oil industry insider, but Customs and Revenue refuses to comment.

The mobile phone operator O2 is investigating a major security flaw which gives users' mobile phone numbers to every website they visit.

Sales of the Apple iPod have shrunk for the 11th consecutive quarter, as the company posted a 21 percent drop in sales of the MP3 players.

Despite selling more than one million Kindles a week during the Christmas period, Amazon's Kindle range did not affect sales of the iPad, which saw a sales increase of 111 percent.

FIFA Street, the fourth installment in EA Sports' franchise of street football video games, is confirmed for a global release on March 13.

In the wake of policy regulators across the world seeking shorter and simpler privacy policies, Google has announced its plans to consolidate its over 60-plus policies into a single document governing all its online services.

Facebook Timeline - the biggest overhaul since the Wall was introduced - is being rolled out to everyone from 24 January, and there is no way that you can opt out.

Despite trialling selling beer and wine in some US stores, there are no plans to do the same in the UK.

Hackers were able to break into the US Northwest rail company's network and take control of passenger trains in December, the Transport Security Administration has revealed.

The fast-food chain McDonald's will hire 2,500 people in the UK increasing its workforce to 90,000 this year.

A number of forthcoming top-end smartphones are set for a royal showdown in the coming months... and iPhone and Android fans world over are getting restless, courtesy delayed releases citing various reasons from hardware redesign to Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade issues.

Twitter has acquired two malware protection companies in three months.

Just days after the Absinthe jailbreaking tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released, developers have wasted no time in creating new features for Siri.