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Wikipedia users may no longer have to see founder Jimmy Wales' pleading face on every page, as the online encyclopaedia has celebrated raising $20 million in donations.

Colin Myler, last editor of defunct News of the World, takes top job at New York Daily News.

Google gets 217 IBM patents

A survey conducted by energy firm E.ON shows that about 134 million pounds of electricity is wasted annually owing to overcharging of mobile phones, laptops and computers in the UK.

The Advertising Standards Authority has reportedly banned TalkTalk's ad campaign after finding the campaign to be misleading and fraudulent.

In early January a man was granted access to the United States from Canada without his passport, instead showing boarder control a photocopy of it on his iPad.

Yahoo appoints Paypal boss with proven record as CEO to replace Carol Bartz.

More than one million ebook readers were opened on Christmas Day in the UK and a staggering 92 per cent of these were Kindles, underlining Amazon's dominance in the ebook sector.

Insurance companies made record payouts last year, following large-scale disasters in Japan and New Zealand.

Apple is set to revolutionise the textbook and education industries by announcing new partnerships with publishers at a media event in New York this month, reports claim.

Pirated copies of ebooks are being distributed online for free, even before the printed copies are released, and account for 20 percent of all ebook downloads.

John Lewis department stores makes £596m in sales over Christmas in contrast to Next's 'disappointing' sales.

Following an ominous threat from Anonymous, Sony and Nintendo have both dropped their support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Action (SOPA) bill.

Apple and Google are interested in bidding for the right to broadcast live Premier League football on their respective TV streaming services, according to the Daily Mail.

BlackBerry is still struggling to sell its cursed PlayBook, slashing the price of its iPad rival yet again, this time to just $299 for all models.

A Twitter account in the name of Wendi Deng, the wife of Rupert Murdoch, has confessed to being fake, raising concerns as the social network has verified the account as genuine for a whole day.

A group of computer hackers, thought to be from Saudi Arabia, claim to have stolen and published the details of up to 400,000 active Israeli credit cards.

Apple is tipped to be holding a media event in New York at the end of this month, with the emphasis thought to be on publishing rather than the rumoured iPad 3.

The popular winter cars for 2012 are Audi A6 3.0T Quattro, Honda CR-V AWD and Toyota Sienna AWD, among others.

Apple Inc. has long been known for ground-breaking technological innovations and its latest quest - to acquire fuel-cell patents - could further strengthen the company's portfolio of 17,000 software patents. Indeed, Apple could silently planning an eco-friendly substitute for existing chemical batteries by acquiring fuel-cell patents to power its devices.

The year 2011 saw some tech leaps as well as flops. Here are the top 5 mobile tech glitches.

As the start of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) draws closers, the speculation over the computer tablets expected to be unveiled is increasing.

The Apple Inc. iPhone reportedly outsold Android devices at AT&T corporate retail stores by a whopping 7.8-to-1 ratio between Dec. 1 and Dec. 27. Apparently, those AT&T stores sold about 981,000 iPhones during the period, accounting for a heavy 66 percent of the turnover.

Jonathan Ive, Apple's Design Head, has been awarded the coveted Knighthood in the New Year Honours list.

Former Chief Executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. Mark Hurd repeatedly pursued and targeted actress Jodie Fisher in attempts to cajole her into having sex with him, according to a controversial letter released on Thursday.

Amazon sold more than one million Kindle ebook readers a week during December, making various Kindles the first, second and third most popular products in the entire Amazon U.S. catalogue.

Rumours abound the release of Apple's first TV take precedence, as fresh reports indicate the release of 32 and 37-inch iTVs in mid-summer 2012.

Facebook has quietly released Messenger for Windows 7, letting users view their Ticker and list of online contacts in a separate desktop application.

Apple has reportedly filed a patent on Facial Recognition software for mobile platform with the intention of adding this feature on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Macbook devices.