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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".

Elderly patients in half of NHS hospitals are not being properly fed or cared for because of a lack of “kindness and compassion”, the health watchdog warns today.

Steve Yegge, a Google senior engineer that accidentally leaked a 4,000 word document, has retracted his comments calling the critical analysis his “own opinion and not Google’s.”

Despite widespread customer complaints and continuing reports of problems with its email and messenger service, BlackBerry has failed to offer compensation, or even apologise to its jilted customers, leading to fresh speculation that the company is digging its own grave.

Shares in British banks were broadly up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading ahead of an Italian debt sale.

Senior Google Engineer, Steve Yegge has leaked an internal document in which he uses his expert opinion to dub Google Plus "a complete failure."

A new "leaked" image of Samsung's currently unconfirmed Galaxy S3 smartphone has emerged leading to speculation that Google's Nexus Prime may not be the first smartphone packing the company's fabled Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

Just hours after iOS 5 was made available to download many users have reported problems, including error 3200 which occurs when the upgrade is almost complete.

Shares in WH Smith were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the retailer reported a rise in profit in the full year ended 31 August 2011.

With iCloud set to be turned on for all users today, iTunes in the Cloud is now available for users outside of the US.

With Apple's iOS 5 operating system's release just hours away, news has broken that the company's highly anticipated iPhone 4S has broken the three million pre-order sales mark in its opening week.

BP has drawn up a contingency plan to tackle an oil spill off the coast Shetland Islands, which has the potential to be bigger than its Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Sony has recalled 1.6 million Bravia TVs sold worldwide in 2007 and 2008, after discovering that a faulty component may cause the sets to melt or catch fire.

With Apple's iOS 5 mobile operating system finally launching in the UK, analysts and fans alike have begun to once again question when the OS' chief competitor, Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich, will finally be unveiled.

Along with iOS 5 due out later today, Apple has put the finishing touches to iCloud and is expected to release Mac OS X 10.7.2 soon, after making iTunes 10.5 available on Tuesday.

BlackBerry has finally released a statement explaining the data outages of the last two days which saw millions of users left in the dark; a 'core switch failure' is to blame.

With the positive critical reaction Apple's highly anticipated iOS 5 is getting on its Wednesday release, analysts have once again questioned whether Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS will be able to compete.

Shares in British banks were mixed on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after a surprise no vote from the Slovak parliament upset European Union plans to increase the size and power of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).