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Sky is to rival Netflix and LoveFilm by offering an internet TV subscription service, doing away entirely with the conventional satellite dish.

British Sky Broadcasting's profits for half-year surge to £601m on back of efficiency savings.

HTC fans in Australia may well be heaving a sigh of relief. The first Long Term Evolution (LTE) Android smartphone - the HTC Velocity 4G - is all set to hit their markets.

Five technology companies, including Apple and Google, are set to face a lawsuit for claiming they violated a number of anti-trust laws.

The BBC iPlayer will be coming to Sky TV customers later in 2012 for no extra cost and will be included as part of Sky Anytime+ service.

The latest reports from games developer Sega have confirmed that "Aliens: Colonial Marines" has been pushed back to an autumn 2012 release. The game was scheduled to release early in spring of this year.

More than half of Facebook users confess that they are worried about the new Timeline design, which displays everything a user has ever done on the site in chronological order.

South Korean smartphone giant loses another court battle against Apple over patents row.

Internet security company Symantec has identified multiple publisher IDs on the Android Market that are being used to infiltrate "Android.Counterclank". So far, the malware has been found successful in luring millions of unsuspecting users into downloading infected apps.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK have developed a new method, using microbubble technology, to double algae cultivation for biofuel.

There are lots of alternatives in the Android keyboard field.

In the final quarter of 2011, when many world leaders were battling crisis in the euro zone to prevent another global recession, the cash counters at Apple Inc were adding $1,670 to its profits every second.

Popular social networking Web site Facebook has accused Adscend Media of "clickjacking"; Adscend has reportedly spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics.

The contents of an e-mail, sent by the late founder of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, to former Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Eric Schmidt, were disclosed on Friday, during the course of a civil suit against the former company.

Expect the LG Prada Phone 3.0 to compete against the likes of iPhone 4S, as the former goes on sale from today in the UK.

There are only a few weeks before the Timeline takes over Facebook. With that in mind, here are 5 basic steps to ensure privacy of personal information without having to stop sharing the lighter moments in your life...

Twitter has apparently planned to comply with the U.S. government's instructions to filter offensive and sensitive user-generated content on its site. The decision could also hint at the social networking Web site's intentions of re-entering the Chinese market, from which it has been banned since 2009.

HTC is set to re-focus its efforts on the iPhone and Galaxy dominated high-end smartphone market, releasing a new set of "hero" handsets.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has defends his company after The New York Times posts a damning story describing the working conditions of its employees.

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...