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Despite selling more than one million Kindles a week during the Christmas period, Amazon's Kindle range did not affect sales of the iPad, which saw a sales increase of 111 percent.

FIFA Street, the fourth installment in EA Sports' franchise of street football video games, is confirmed for a global release on March 13.

In the wake of policy regulators across the world seeking shorter and simpler privacy policies, Google has announced its plans to consolidate its over 60-plus policies into a single document governing all its online services.

Apple Inc. announced their first quarterly results after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.

Facebook Timeline - the biggest overhaul since the Wall was introduced - is being rolled out to everyone from 24 January, and there is no way that you can opt out.

Despite trialling selling beer and wine in some US stores, there are no plans to do the same in the UK.

Hackers were able to break into the US Northwest rail company's network and take control of passenger trains in December, the Transport Security Administration has revealed.

The fast-food chain McDonald's will hire 2,500 people in the UK increasing its workforce to 90,000 this year.

A number of forthcoming top-end smartphones are set for a royal showdown in the coming months... and iPhone and Android fans world over are getting restless, courtesy delayed releases citing various reasons from hardware redesign to Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade issues.

Twitter has acquired two malware protection companies in three months.

Just days after the Absinthe jailbreaking tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released, developers have wasted no time in creating new features for Siri.

Wife of Disgraced Dominique Strauss-Kahn launches French version of Huffington Post.

The Green Pois0n Absinthe tool which can jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 has been downloaded one million times since it was released just three days ago.

The first day in a new job is never going to be an easy one, but on 23 January Thorsten Heins walked into one of the least enviable positions in business, as he took over as chief executive officer at Research in Motion.

After months of waiting and making do with partial solutions, an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 has finally been released.

Doubts have been cast over Research in Motion's new CEO Thorsten Heins just hours after he took over the BlackBerry manufacturer from Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie on Monday.

New research suggests that Google's Android mobile operating system will overtake Apple's iOS as developers' favourite by the end of 2012.

The shake-up comes in the wake of intense competition in the smartphone market.

An untethered jailbreak has finally been released for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 as iOS hacking group GreenPois0n made its new Absinthe software available for Mac and PC.

The prosecution said there was danger of Dotcom fleeing the country, but the defence lawyer pointed out that the German's passports had been seized and his assets frozen.

Sony has unveiled its B170, an ultra slick and highly portable USB Walkman player for music buffs.

Bethesda Studios has released the Skyrim patch v1.4 to address the PS3 memory issues, besides broken quests and bugs.

Sony's new gaming console, Playstation Vita, is one of the most anticipated gadgets due in the UK on February 22. Here is a first look at the handheld gaming gizmo.

Sony Ericsson and ZTE have settled by dropping patent infringement lawsuits against each other.

After the exit of Megaupload many other file-sharing sites could be in the firing line.

Samsung has denied claims of recruitment through unsolicited e-mails and SMSes. Cyber criminals are being blamed.

Game developer Capcom has announced Resident Evil 6, giving the game a 20 November, 2012 release date and treating fans of the zombie-shooter to a three minute trailer of the new game.

A vote for the controversial Protect Intellectual Property Act which was due to take place on 24 January has been postponed, following the blackout protest.

Will the battle for supremacy between Netflix and Lovefilm fuel more piracy? The signs are ominous, as the Amazon's giant is challenged by an U.S. invader.