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The Apple-dominated tablet marker could soon become a three horse race, with rumours emerging of a Google tablet set to take on the iPad and Amazon's hugely popular Kindle Fire.

A survey conducted by energy firm E.ON shows that about 134 million pounds of electricity is wasted annually owing to overcharging of mobile phones, laptops and computers in the UK.

In early January a man was granted access to the United States from Canada without his passport, instead showing boarder control a photocopy of it on his iPad.

More than one million ebook readers were opened on Christmas Day in the UK and a staggering 92 per cent of these were Kindles, underlining Amazon's dominance in the ebook sector.

Breaking from the flagship Galaxy Nexus' assault on Apple's main iPhone base, Samsung has unveiled two new low-price devices aimed to conquer the affordable smartphone market.

Latest development on the newest tablet Amazon Kindle Fire shows that the little tablet has reduced the sales of the Goliath-like iPad tablet versions during the Holiday season.

Apple is set to revolutionise the textbook and education industries by announcing new partnerships with publishers at a media event in New York this month, reports claim.

Pirated copies of ebooks are being distributed online for free, even before the printed copies are released, and account for 20 percent of all ebook downloads.

Another "leak" has appeared revealing yet more insights into Nokia's, currently fictional, Lumia 900 "Ace" smartphone.

Reports suggesting Motorola is working on a mysterious new upgrade for its Xoom series of tablets has led to fresh speculation of an Ice Cream Sandwich update.

Apple and Google are interested in bidding for the right to broadcast live Premier League football on their respective TV streaming services, according to the Daily Mail.

BlackBerry is still struggling to sell its cursed PlayBook, slashing the price of its iPad rival yet again, this time to just $299 for all models.

Samsung’s flagship smartphone Galaxy S2 took all the limelight in 2011, leading the charts for almost eight to 10 months in a row until Apple’s iPhone 4S arrived.

Another "leaked" image of Nokia's fabled Lumia 900 "Ace" smartphone, has emerged sparking fresh hopes of a Consumer Electronics Show 2012 appearance.

Reports suggest Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS is looking to take a slice of the Kindle Fire's action, unveiling its own 7-inch Android tiny-titan at 2012's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Reports suggest Acer and Lenovo are both preparing a series of Windows 8 tablets for release in the third quarter of 2012.

Apple is tipped to be holding a media event in New York at the end of this month, with the emphasis thought to be on publishing rather than the rumoured iPad 3.

Apple Inc. has long been known for ground-breaking technological innovations and its latest quest - to acquire fuel-cell patents - could further strengthen the company's portfolio of 17,000 software patents. Indeed, Apple could silently planning an eco-friendly substitute for existing chemical batteries by acquiring fuel-cell patents to power its devices.

The year 2011 saw some tech leaps as well as flops. Here are the top 5 mobile tech glitches.

As the start of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) draws closers, the speculation over the computer tablets expected to be unveiled is increasing.

Stephan Boyer, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created the world's first self-balancing electric unicycle.

The American "Made in the U.S.A" foundation has issued a statement attacking Apple for its use of "virtual slave labour," calling for Occupy protesters to "turn their anger" towards the iPhone maker.

Boy’s mother shocked after Apple's automated voice gadget blurts foul-mouthed insult in supermarket

For the second year in a row Kindle is Amazon's best-selling product, beating Harry Potter, Adele and the perennially popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to the top spot.

Amazon sold more than one million Kindle ebook readers a week during December, making various Kindles the first, second and third most popular products in the entire Amazon U.S. catalogue.

Rumours abound the release of Apple's first TV take precedence, as fresh reports indicate the release of 32 and 37-inch iTVs in mid-summer 2012.

High-end retail store Harrods will sell Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 at £ 1,275.

After iOS5 Jailbreak, its time to take a look at latest developments in the Windows Phone 7 territory. As the new jailbreak tool - WindowBreak promises to unlock typical features as in iOS5 in the near future. Right now, the tool is a runaway success with first and second generation Samsung smartphones running on WP7.

Rumours suggest Samsung's fabled follow up to the perennially popular Galaxy S2 is set to make its debut at 2012's Mobile World Conference (MWC).