BlackBerry has demonstrated its new Tag system, which uses near-field technology (NFC) to let users share their contact details by tapping two BlackBerrys together.
Sir David Attenborough was honoured by the gadget world last night, when he was awarded for his outstanding contribution to technology at the annual T3 awards in London.
With Samsung's Galaxy S2 having beaten Apple's iPhone 4 for the crown of best smartphone at this year's T3 awards, speculation has now turned to the next clash of the smartphone titans, with critics questioning whether the iPhone 4S will fair better against Samsung's Nexus Prime.
Shares in British banks were broadly down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading as investors, unusually perhaps, awaited news from Slovakia.
Samsung claimed a surprise victory over Apple Monday night when the Galaxy S2 was voted smartphone of 2011 at the T3 awards, beating out the iPhone 4.
BlackBerry and phone networks worldwide were forced to apologies to tens of millions of customers yesterday, as a server crash in Slough caused the loss of internet data, email and BlackBerry Messenger.
Hugh Jackman's latest film, Real Steel, includes an easter-egg scene containing a teaser advertisement for Microsoft's rumoured, next-generation Xbox 720 games console.
Blackberry users are suffering loss of internet, email and Blackberry Messenger as a server crash at a data centre in Slough causes a data blackout across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
EA Sports and Adidas Originals have created a partnership around the newest 'Need for Speed' racing game, The Run, offering special trainers and apparel.
Apple has issued a statement confirming, despite an initially tepid consumer response, its recently unveiled iPhone 4S has officially broken the opening day pre-order record set by its predecessor, the iPhone 4.
Just days after a number of sites "leaked" images of Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS, a new anonymous source has released a video allegedly showing Ice Cream Sandwich running on the fabled Google Nexus Prime smartphone.
Sony is set to acquire the rights to a movie about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last week.
Dell is rumoured to have dropped the upcoming Wrigley handset, which was set to run on the newly released Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system.
The founders of music-sharing website Napster are teaming up to create a social network with celebrity investors that will take cues from Chatroulette.
New reports have emerged suggesting a select number of the horde of Apple fans pre-ordering the company's iPhone 4S may get it before the device's 14 October release date.
Forza 4 hits the shelves in the UK on Friday October 14 and hopes to kick Gran Turismo 5 off the top spot of the driving simulator podium, bringing with it Kinect support and Top Gear extras.
The iPhone 4S could be jailbroken in record time, as the first two people queuing at the Regent Street store are organisers of Jailbreak Con.
New images of Google's highly anticipated answer to Apple's iOS 5, Android Ice Cream Sandwich have been "leaked" across the internet.
Samsung has delayed Tuesday's unveiling of its touted Google Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus, reportedly out of respect for rival Apple's Steve Jobs.
Two people are being held on suspicion of burglary after iPads were stolen from the Covent Garden Apple Store early on Monday morning.
The UK’s first trial of 4G mobile broadband has started in Cornwall and will offer a large step in mobile broadband capabilities.
With the iPad dominating tablet sales the world over, leaving other manufacturers in its dust - the HP Touchpad saw a massive price cut, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab struggled to sell - HTC is hoping the Jetstream will make a dent in Apple's market share.
Mobile carrier AT&T has confirmed that it received over 200,000 pre-orders for Apple's recently unveiled iPhone 4S, just 12 hours after opening it to pre-orders, making it "the most successful iPhone launch" ever.
Google, briefly, let slip the release date of its iOS 5, iPhone 4S killing Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, leading to fresh speculation of an Apple vs Google showdown this October.
Welcome to this weeks IBTimes Top Ten Tech Articles and Rumours. Congratulations to the technology team who have worked around the clock to cover all the events this week, although we did quite enjoy staying late to cover the Lets talk iPhone conference! Our thoughts go out to Steve Jobs, who made our jobs as technology journalists that much more fun, he will be sorely missed.
It had to happen eventually, and to be honest we're surprised that it's taken this long, but drivers can now enjoy being bossed around by Jeremy Clarkson.
Following a recent spat of "leaked" reports regarding Google's fabled Nexus Prime smartphone, a new batch of "evidence" has appeared indicating the device will be released 27 October, placing its release just weeks after Apple's iPhone 4S.
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Fresh reports have emerged suggesting Google's Nexus Prime smartphone will be revealed on 11 October, placing it in the same release date window as Apple's recently unveiled iPhone 4S.
Apple has made its newest iPhone, the iPhone 4S, available for pre-order pegging the device with a concrete 14 October release date.
