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Apple’s latest iPhone 4S feature, Siri, can allow others to access your email and texts without having to first hack your password.

Google is launching an online security campaign alongside the Citizens Advice Bureau Monday that will highlight the importance of strong passwords and suspicious e-mails.

Heather Knight, founder of Marilyn Munrobot in New York, is attempting to bring art and science together. As shown at a Wired 2011 event, she is trying to develop charismatic robots to create social interactions between them and humans.

The iMessenger has been a hotly debated topic surrounding the iOS 5 update today, so we’ve decided to explain exactly what it is and how it works.

Nintendo have announced their latest new-look console will hit the stores on November 8, just in time for your Christmas shopping.

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.”

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

Blackberry maker RIM, called a press conference late last night and explained exactly what the issues were but forgot to mention the word ‘recompense’ altogether.

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

Blackberry is still suffering severe disruptive issues with a number of users receiving emails in bulk, yet the makers of the Blackberry handsets, RIM refuse to give another statement as to why BBM, Facebook, Twitter and other internet services are unavailable.

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.

Adding to the company's list of hacking woes, Sony has confirmed that an as-yet unknown third-part attempted to illegally access nearly 93,000 Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment accounts.

BlackBerrys are still not working to their full capacity Wednesday after a 72-hour server collapse at their Slough data centre hit service across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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BlackBerry users endured a second day of network problems today, with BBM and email failing to work just hours after a statement was released to say yesterday's 20-hour network outage had been fixed.

Twitter has emerged victorious at the T3 awards after scooping the digital media service of the year, beating Facebook and YouTube to the post thanks to its first class iPhone, Android and iPad apps.

Facebook users have been warned today, that the information they allow people to see on their profiles, could lead to identity fraud.

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.

A reported attempt by the hacker collective Anonymous to take down the New York Stock Exchange apparently failed Monday.

Media regulator Ofcom have pushed back the date of the 4G next generation broadband auction to sell FM licences to a new wave of radio stations.

The founders of music-sharing website Napster are teaming up to create a social network with celebrity investors that will take cues from Chatroulette.

The UK’s first trial of 4G mobile broadband has started in Cornwall and will offer a large step in mobile broadband capabilities.

It certainly has been an interesting week for those of us working on the technology desk, it’s flown by.

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.

Following the slew of alleged incidents of police brutality by New York police against Occupy Wall Street protesters, hacker collective Anonymous has issued a series of statements attacking U.S. President Barack Obama.

Wikipedia has temporarily disabled its Italian site in protest against a privacy law forcing websites to correct content deemed damaging to a person's image within 48 hours of a complaint being made.

With many still struggling to come to terms with the death of Steve Jobs, Facebook scammers have wasted no time in cashing in on the pioneer's death, by offering to give away 50 free iPads.

One aspect of Steve Jobs' career which is often overlooked is his involvement with Pixar and Disney, the Apple CEO co-founded Pixar and, after selling it to Disney, became the Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder.