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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.

James Murdoch has admitted that he received an email revealing the practices of phone hacking but denies having read “the whole chain” which would have revealed that News of the World journalists were illegally accessing voice messages from people’s phones.

If you're hoping to get an iPad 2 this Christmas, then it might be Worthing holding on until the New Year, as rumours emerging from the Chinese supply chains claim the iPad 3 will be available in just a few months.Here at the International Business Times UK, we've compiled all of the latest iPad 3 rumours into this cut-out-and-keep guide.

A bug has been discovered in Windows Phone 7 that causes the phone to reboot and breaks the messaging hub, all by sending a certain text message to the phone.

Apple opened its biggest-ever store last week, at the Grand Central station, New York.

From murders to drug cooking to nudity it’s all going on in the weird world of Wal-Mart

Chip maker Intel has slashed its predicted revenues by $1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2011, in the wake of the severe flooding in Thailand.

Court documents have revealed that the two BlackBerry executives who's drunken behaviour forced a flight to land last week "chewed through" restraints.

THQ has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel to its Darksiders video game, simply called Death and set for a 2012 release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Apple has shifted more than 100 million applications from its Mac AppStore since it was introduced less than a year ago, and the store now boasts thousands of free and paid-for apps.

Super-fast 4G mobile broadband will not be widely available in the UK until at least 2015, according to Ofcom's annual plan for 2012 to 2013.

The stupendously popular bird-flinging, pig-killing game Angry Birds celebrated its second birthday on Sunday, and to mark the occasion developer Rovio is giving away free gifts.

BT has announced a £2.5bn upgrade to bring super-fast broadband of up to 300Mbps to over 250,000 homes and businesses in Scotland.

An untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 iPod touch running iOS 5 has been created, and the hacker responsible has posted a video online to prove it.

Infamous former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin was at the heart of "poor management and board decisions" that led to the bank's failure, according to a new report.

The iPad 3 will begin production in January and go on sale in March or April, according to the latest batch of gossip from sources in the Chinese supply chain.

In what was described as a "boys' club", female recruits were rated by their sexist colleagues not on the basis of their performance but on their bra size, a tribunal has heard.

Surveillance companies are able to hack into BlackBerry mobile phones by sending out a fake software update, the smartphone can then be monitored without the owner's knowledge.

Facebook's social graph has the potential to become a utility in our lives as important as water and electricity, according to Christian Hernandez, head of international business development at Facebook.