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BlackBerry manufacture Research in Motion has announced that BBM Music has launched in the UK, giving users to ability to share music tracks with their friends.

Reports today claim that Apple will be shipping the much-anticipated 15-inch MacBook Air in March, as speculation surrounding a larger Air - or thinner Pro - continues to grow.

China's public sector banks, once considered immune from the global crisis, now face mounting risks.

A team of developers has cracked Apple's personal assistant, Siri, to work on any device, including iPads, computers and even Android smartphones.

The Luton-based airline has seen a rise in the number of business passengers, which hit 9.5 million in the year.

Microsoft will announce the new Xbox - tipped to be called 'Loop' - at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.

Apple released iOS 5.0.1 last week to try and fix the poor battery life encountered by many iPhone 4S and 4 users, and while initially the company was confident, customers are still reporting poor battery life.While Apple gets its act together and releases an update that actually works, the IBTimes has put together a quick list of tips to save battery life on iOS 5 devices.

Picking fights with whomever you please, stealing cars by jumping in through the window and having fire fights while diving out of a disintegrating aeroplane, all while being hailed a celebrity by everyone you meet. 'Saints Row: The Third' makes 'Grand Theft Auto' look like a Disney game.

Mobile network O2 has started a trial of the new ultra-fast 4G network in London today, which will see users receive up to 150mbps download speeds, drastically faster than the current 3G network.

Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 500 people and has caused an estimated £2.5 billion of damage following three months of heavy rain. The computer industry is being affected as the majority of the world's hard drives are manufactured in the country, and these factories have been forced to close, resulting in global hard drive prices soaring.

Computer manufacturer Dell has said that its hard drive supplies are likely to be affected due to the extensive flooding in Thailand.

The Amazon Kindle Fire goes on sale in the U.S. tomorrow, November 15, and while the touchscreen tablet isn't coming to the UK just yet, we've compiled a summary of reviews below.

Apple has announced a replacement programme for the first generation iPod nano, after a manufacturing defect in the battery has caused units to overheat and, in some cases, catch fire.

As a part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's launch, Activision has pledged to donate an additional $3 million (£1.9 million) to help soldiers leaving the army.

"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" set a new all-time record, after selling more than 6.5 million games in the U.K. and North America in its first 24 hours.

Frustrated iPhone 4S users are complaining that the iOS 5.0.1 update released yesterday by Apple has not fixed poor battery life as promised.

Gaming platform Steam - owned by Valve - has been hacked, and the company is currently unsure if users' credit card details have been stolen or not.

Hard drive prices have skyrocketed following severe flooding in Thailand, with analysts predicting that prices could take two years to recover.

Apple has reportedly bought Bluetooth headset company Wi-Gear, suggesting that the iPhone maker is looking into producing its own wireless headsets.

Apple has today released iOS 5.0.1, a software update that will hopefully fix the poor battery life that some iPhone users have been experiencing

The chief executive of News Corp, James Murdoch, accused his former colleagues at News of the World of misleading a parliamentary committee over the phone hacking scandal.

The next Microsoft console, previously dubbed Xbox 720, will be called Loop, feature a 'far smaller' design and be cheaper than the current Xbox 360, according to reports.

"Poisonous" bullying by the chief executive of a multi-billion pound London investment firm lead to its demise, a former staff member alleges at employment tribunal.

Research in Motion has announced that its future smartphones will share features and design cues with the PlayBook tablet.

Follow our minute by minute blog live from Westminster as the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch faces a grilling from MPs

Amazon might be looking into developing a rival to the Siri personal assistant for its Kindle Fire tablet, having purchased a speech recognition company.

As James Murdoch prepares for a second line of questioning from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, one of the key investors of News Corp, Julie Tanner of CBIS, remembers the AGM where democracy fought back against the Murdoch family.

Hackers have found a couple of secret features in iOS 5 that Apple has not yet officially announced - a panoramic mode in the camera app and an autocorrect bar on the keyboard which is very similar to that used in Android.

A month to forget is quickly turning into a year to forget for Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), which has come bottom of a list of the greenest electronics firms.