COMPANIES

The next downloadable car pack for Forza Motorsport 4 will be made available to download from Xbox Live next Monday, November 1, and includes the Lamborghini Aventador.

Attempting to draw consumers to Nokia's forthcoming Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, Orange is offering existing customers a free 4GB Xbox 360 when they upgrade to the Lumia 800 on an 18 or 24 month contract.

With news of the buy-out now public, analysts have suggested Sony's decision to buy Ericsson out of the two company's partnership may have been motivated by the patents and added legal protection it would duly acquire.

With Nintendo's latest financial statement confirming a further slump in revenue, analysts have come to question whether Nintendo will be able to continue developing consoles, suggesting the company may be forced to go the way of SEGA and re-focus its efforts to third-party software development.

Toyota Motor Corp has announced it will suspend production in North America on Saturday following a shortage of parts, the latest signs that the floods in Thailand have started to affect the giant automaker's global operations.

Yet more bad news for BlackBerry has transpired today as the PlayBook tablet continues to sell badly, despite significant price cuts.

Owners of Oceana nightclubs, Luminar Leisure has gone into administration, as the company said its banks would not extend a recent period of leniency, due to end on Friday.

Electric car company Tesla is "trying to change the industry" after it has revealed plans to launch an all-new two-seater Roadster model in 2014.

New research suggests Apple's iconic series of iPad tablets have not only outsold their Android equivalents, but also allowed tablet sales, for the first time ever, to exceed those of Netbooks.

Floods in Thailand will cause PC and hard drive shortages in the run-up to Christmas, with industry-leader Western Digital (WD) warning that stock levels will not return to normal until 2012.

Despite beating research firm Nikkei's pessimistic predictions, Nintendo has revealed a massive ¥70 billion (£576 million) loss for the quarter ending 30 September, 2011, leading to fresh speculation about the games industry veteran's future as a console maker.

BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion has been sued by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day service outage that affected millions of users worldwide this month.

Sony has confirmed it has agreed to acquire Ericsson's 50 per cent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, making the company a subsidiary wholly owned by Sony.

The display to be used in the upcoming iPad 3 is said to be a "quantum leap in pixel density", according to sources with knowledge of the new tablet, due early next year.

A virus attacking Mac computers known as Tsunami Trojan has been discovered and early speculation suggests that it may be a DDoS attack tool, used to bring down websites.

Tech sites have been flooded with complaints that the Apple iPhone 4S' Siri feature can't understand Scottish accents.

An update for the BlackBerry PlayBook that promised to bring BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and a host of other features this month has been delayed until next year.

Virgin Galactic is hoping to launch its first paying customers into space in two years' time, and with rocket-powered tests starting next year, almost 500 people have now bought tickets.

Nokia has announced the new 'Asha' range of mobile phones, which feature a candy bar-style design - incorporating a full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen - and Angry Birds is pre-installed on every model.

With Nokia only just having unveiled its new high-end Lumia 800 Windows Phone, analysts and critics have already suggested the Finnish phone maker hasn't done enough to compete with Apple's iPhone 4S and Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.

Nokia has finally unveiled its first set of new Windows Phone devices, pegging its new Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 devices with a November release date.

LG continues to struggle in the mobile phone sector, falling further behind Apple, Nokia and Samsung as the South Korean company records losses for a sixth consecutive quarter.

New reports have emerged suggesting Nintendo's next quarterly financial statement could be the first step in the company's demise as a console maker, prophesying a recurring loss exceeding the 100 billion yen (£823 million) mark.

Reports claim that Sony is making progress with a Steve Jobs film, to be based on the official biography by Walter Isaacson, and the writer of The Social Network is said to be involved.

Amazon has announced that it is producing 'millions' more Kindle Fire tablets to meet high pre-order demand for the multitouch device, due out in America next month.

Motorola, via its Twitter account, has reportedly confirmed that a number of its tablet and smartphone devices will be receiving an Ice Cream Sandwich flavoured update just six weeks after Google releases the OS' final build.

Steve Jobs swore to destroy Android and spend all of Apple's money to stop the Google operating system, which he claimed to be a stolen idea from Apple.

Shares in Netflix dropped 27 per cent after the video-streaming and DVD rental site announced that expanding to the UK would see two years of financial losses.

Facebook claims Google is not providing users with the information they want, and that the future of online search needs to become more social.