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Amazon has announced the Kindle Fire, a touchscreen tablet intended to rival the iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook, with a 7 inch screen, Android operating system and $199 price tag.

With Apple's 4 October iPhone media event just having been confirmed, new reports have emerged suggesting further details about Google's future Nexus Prime smartphone.

Just one day after Apple announced its 4 October iPhone-focused media event, smartphone competitor HTC has announced its own unveiling on 6 October.

New York commuters can now tweet, update their Facebook status, check email and call their boss to explain why they're late, as the NY subway gets mobile phone coverage.

Amazon is set to introduce its iPad-rivalling tablet, tipped to be called Kindle Fire at a media event in New York today. The Kindle Fire is expected to undercut Apple's $499 (£399) iPad and come in at the $250-$350 price point where tablets have so far failed to succeed.

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango has arrived just days before the fabled release window opens for Apple's iOS 5 and Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating systems.

Barclays is the most complained about bank in the UK in the first half of 2011, with 251,563 complaints received.

Apple may be set to discontinue the iPod classic and shuffle at next weeks' iPhone 5 media event, while a white iPod touch will be announced some technology sites believe.

ITV has issued an apology after it was revealed yesterday that a documentary about the IRA mistakenly used footage from a video game, which was claimed to be IRA video from 1988.

Google is to lease a seven-floor building in Shoredicth - known as London's 'Tech City' - providing space for developers and startups and adding a big-name boost to David Cameron's plans to create a global technology hub in East London.

With Apple's media event confirmed for next Tuesday, analysts and consumers alike have once again questioned whether the company will unveil a truly next-generation iPhone 5 or a slightly updated iPhone 4S.

The online auctioneers have said at the ‘Startups’ Smash Summit’ in New York this week that they are working on a mysterious project with social networking dominators, Facebook.

ITV seems to have passed off footage of combat game ArmA 2 as a 1980s IRA video in a documentary called Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA, which aired earlier this week.

Apple has confirmed that it will be holding a media event on October 4, where the company is expected to announce the iPhone 5, iOS 5 and iCloud; the event carries the tagline "Let's talk iPhone"

Apple and other manufacturers are looking into curved glass touchscreens for their future products, according to a report by the DigiTimes.

Reports today suggest that the iPhone 5 will be released on October 14 in the UK, United States, France, Germany and Japan, although the question of whether there will be an iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S is still unanswered.

Joining the Samsung and HTC-led anti-Apple iPhone armada, Chinese phone-maker ZTE has unveiled its new Spirit Windows Phone Mango powered smartphone.

Defence company BAE has finally confirmed its plans to cut over 3,000 jobs across the UK, with most of the cuts occurring in the military aircraft division.

Will Stelios’ New Airline Fastjet Rival Easyjet? EasyJet, the UK’s largest budget airline, which carries more passengers than any other United Kingdom airline is set to be faced with shock competition from one of its own in Stelios Haji-Ioannou who, according to reports is set to launch a new airline called FastJet.

Despite the lack of any official information, with the iPhone 5's rumoured release date just around the corner, analysts and consumers alike have already begun to speculate which future devices could topple the fabled smartphone.

HTC like to associate bizarre names with their smartphones; from their Gingerbread operating system - soon to be replaced by Ice Cream Sandwich - to their Snapdragon processors, while the handset names range from Desire and Sensation to Envy and Rhyme.

New reports have emerged suggesting Google's updated Ice Cream Sandwich operating system will be released in late October, placing it squarely in the same rumoured release window as Apple's highly anticipated iOS 5.

Facebook is said to be launching its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event sometime this month.

The search engine has finally become a teenager today, celebrating its 13th birthday with a new doodle on its homepage.

The Indian telecom regulator has imposed a limit which means that no one can send more than 100 text messages per day, in an attempt to curb marketing messages.

A British cargo ship carrying silver worth £135 million in today's money has been located deep in the North Atlantic, 70 years after it was sunk by a German torpedo.

The Euro opened Tuesday away from its eight month low on the back of a report in Europe that leaders are considering 'beefing' up its bail out fund prompted short covering Reuters reports Tuesday.Asian currencies also rebounded after huge sales in the last two weeks, helping to ease the global worries of contagion from the Euro zone crisis. A group of the worlds 20 largest economies met this weekend to discuss the world's economic fears but were unable to offer anty concrete steps t...

After 60 years of designing, a driverless, battery powered and laser-guided pod is ferrying passengers between terminals at London's Heathrow Airport.

Following the partnership between Spotify and Facebook last week, the music streaming service now demands that new users have a Facebook account before signing up.