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Apple’s latest iPhone 4S feature, Siri, can allow others to access your email and texts without having to first hack your password.

Google is launching an online security campaign alongside the Citizens Advice Bureau Monday that will highlight the importance of strong passwords and suspicious e-mails.

Making good on its previous promise to mount legal action against Apple's new iPhone, Samsung has mounted a fresh batch of lawsuits against Apple seeking to block its recently released iPhone 4S.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to trial the use of iPhones and iPads among senior staff, replacing their current BlackBerrys in a move that could see RIM lose out to Apple as the business phone of choice.

Personal assistant for iPhone 4S, Siri, will not provide map and local business search information for UK users until next year.

One in five BlackBerry users are considering switching to a different supplier after last week’s service problems left millions with no internet, email or BlackBerry messenger.

Apple released the iPhone 4S this morning and the IB Times has sat down to have a quick chat with the voice-controlled personal assistant, Siri.

The profit margin for energy companies has risen to £125 per customer per year, from £15 in June, says regulator Ofgem.

Just after Sony confirmed another major security breach on its networks, Microsoft has issued a statement confirming that for the fifteenth out of 16 months, its Xbox 360 has outsold Sony's PS3 in the U.S.

A T-shaped design has been announced of the winner of a competition to find the new design of the next generation of pylons

Voice-controlled personal assistant Siri might have grabbed the iPhone 4S headlines, but the phone also gets a hugely updated camera, and more.

With Samsung finally having rescheduled its "something big" unveiling, critics have once again come to question, will Samsung release unveil the Nexus Prime or Galaxy S3 alongside Google's Ice Cream Sandwich?

Shares in British banks were mixed on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spain's credit rating.

Shares in ASOS were down on the FTSE AIM 100 in morning trading after the online fashion store reported a rise in sales in the half year ended 30 September 2011.

With Apple's highly sought after iOS 5 powered iPhone 4S smartphone finally available, Samsung has set a new date for its "something big" unveiling, leading to fresh hopes that Android fans will finally see the Ice Cream Sandwich powered Nexus Prime.

After lining up for days - and in some cases, weeks - Apple fans will be able to get their hands on the new iPhone 4S Friday.

Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Thursday.

Less than 24 hours after iOS 5 was made available to the public, the new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch has already been jailbroken.

BlackBerry maker, RIM has recently held a press conference to try and explain the recent issues they’ve been having over the past four days.

New "evidence" has appeared suggesting that contrary to previous reports, Samsung's Galaxy S3 will be the opening contender to Apple's iPhone 4S, not the Nexus Prime.

BP and its partners has won approval to begin work on its £4.5 billion oil field investment in the Clair field, near the Shetland Islands.

RIM Founder and Co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis has apologised for not delivering the company objectives this week but says there is no time or date of when the probably will be wholly fixed.

With BlackBerry's three day epic service fail only just ending, analysts have speculated that Apple's new iMessage service may turn a number of jilted BlackBerry customers to its recently released iOS 5 operating system.

Top Gear has been forced to make an embarrassing U-turn over a satnav voiced by Jeremy Clarkson, as the BBC deemed that the product broke editorial guidelines.

Retailer WH Smith is to offer the largest ebook catalogue in the UK, offering more than two million titles and two Kobo ebook readers.

Nintendo have announced their latest new-look console will hit the stores on November 8, just in time for your Christmas shopping.

With iOS 5 being made available yesterday, Apple fans the world over scrambled to be first to get the new Notifications Centre, iMessage and Wi-Fi syncing, but there are 200 other features that are worth a look, too.

The Australian courts have ruled in Apple's favour temporarily banning sales of Samsung's latest Galaxy tablet, marking a significant victory for Apple in the two company's ongoing global patent war.

Shares in BP were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy giant announced £10 billion worth of investment into four new oil and gas projects in a bid to maintain North Sea production "for decades to come".