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Android users visit Facebook on their smartphones more often than iPhone users, with 68.2 percent returning to the application every single day.

Apple has released a new commercial for Siri, featuring Santa Claus using the personal assistant to get directions to houses, check the weather and listen to an email from Mrs Claus.

British Telecom has sued Google's Android mobile operating system, as it believes that the software infringes six patents in its Maps, Music and Android Market applications.

Sales are down and losses are bigger at HMV Group, as its interim results show how crucial the festive period will be for the entertainment retailer.

The Swedish car manufacturer Saab has filed for bankruptcy after a court rejected the company’s plea for protection from its creditors.

The author of Steve Jobs' biography has announced that the book may be added to in the future and that the current edition is "not the final draft".

BP, the petroleum company that was at the centre of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, received $250 million (£161.3 million) from the manufacturer of the failed blowout preventer on its Deepwater Horizon rig.

The Danish bank Saxo has released it's ten most outrageous business and financial predictions for the new year.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced Thursday that its new BlackBerry 10 operating system is being delayed until the end of next year.

It is being widely reported that Apple's iCloud and iTunes services are suffering a network outage, with users complaining that they are unable to log in.

Apple is thought to be releasing a smaller, 7.85-inch iPad towards the end of next year to compete against the increasingly popular Amazon Kindle Fire.

The tax injustice pressure group, UK Uncut, has claimed victory over Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs after it was reported that up to ten companies would have their tax settlements with the HMRC investigated.

Facebook announced today that Timeline, a radical overhaul of users' profile pages that documents their lives, is now available to everyone.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted he cried when he discoverd that the late Steve Jobs had tricked him into designing a game for which Jobs received a majority of the profit.

Now that the sales ban of the Galaxy tablet has been overturned, Samsung has wasted little time in kicking Apple where it hurts - by drawing on the publicity of its legal battle against the iPad manufacturer to fuel a newspaper advertising campaign.

With the year now coming to a close and Sony still recovering from its hacking troubles, analysts have already pegged Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the winner of this year's battle of the consoles.

Leading global research agency Miliward Brown has identified the ten most popular fast food restaurants in 2011; predictably, the list is led by McDonald's and is followed by Subway, Starbucks and KFC.

Nine months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast of Japan, Google has uploaded photos of the affected areas on its Street View mapping site. The images show the path of destruction left behind by the tsunami.

Grand Theft Auto 3 is now available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as developer Rock Star Games released an iOS version of the hugely popular PlayStation 2 game.

According to the National Retail Federation study, as of the second week in December, the average person has completed only 46.5 percent of their shopping.

Google announced that millions of dollars have channeled to fund education and eliminate human trafficking this year.

It is believed that Google Android will launch its own rival to Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant featured on the iPhone 4S.

Codemasters has unveiled the latest addition to its award-winning DiRT rallying franchise; called DiRT Showdown the game promises to be an arcade thriller and will be available next May.

Apple is believed to be developing a new MacBook Pro offering four times the pixels of the current model, totalling an incredible resolution of 2880 by 1800.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to close down the English-language section of the vast user-generated encyclopaedia in protest over a U.S. bill against online piracy.

Telecom equipment giant Nokia Siemens Networks is set to scale back its export contracts with Iran, following growing international pressure and the imposition of fresh sanctions.

The 1976 contract that established Apple as a corporate company sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million (£1.03m), some ten times high than its estimate.

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 hitting the stores, 2011 has definitely been the year of the first-person shooter; but have you ever felt that the maps are a bit, well, small?

The Top 10 Luxurious Brands in 2011 are Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Gucci, Chanel, Cartier, Rolex, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Fendi and Burberry.