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Floods in Thailand will cause PC and hard drive shortages in the run-up to Christmas, with industry-leader Western Digital (WD) warning that stock levels will not return to normal until 2012.

Despite beating research firm Nikkei's pessimistic predictions, Nintendo has revealed a massive ¥70 billion (£576 million) loss for the quarter ending 30 September, 2011, leading to fresh speculation about the games industry veteran's future as a console maker.

BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion has been sued by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day service outage that affected millions of users worldwide this month.

Sony has confirmed it has agreed to acquire Ericsson's 50 per cent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, making the company a subsidiary wholly owned by Sony.

The display to be used in the upcoming iPad 3 is said to be a "quantum leap in pixel density", according to sources with knowledge of the new tablet, due early next year.

A virus attacking Mac computers known as Tsunami Trojan has been discovered and early speculation suggests that it may be a DDoS attack tool, used to bring down websites.

Tech sites have been flooded with complaints that the Apple iPhone 4S' Siri feature can't understand Scottish accents.

An update for the BlackBerry PlayBook that promised to bring BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and a host of other features this month has been delayed until next year.

Nokia has announced the new 'Asha' range of mobile phones, which feature a candy bar-style design - incorporating a full QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen - and Angry Birds is pre-installed on every model.

With Nokia only just having unveiled its new high-end Lumia 800 Windows Phone, analysts and critics have already suggested the Finnish phone maker hasn't done enough to compete with Apple's iPhone 4S and Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.

Nokia has finally unveiled its first set of new Windows Phone devices, pegging its new Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 devices with a November release date.

LG continues to struggle in the mobile phone sector, falling further behind Apple, Nokia and Samsung as the South Korean company records losses for a sixth consecutive quarter.

New reports have emerged suggesting Nintendo's next quarterly financial statement could be the first step in the company's demise as a console maker, prophesying a recurring loss exceeding the 100 billion yen (£823 million) mark.

Amazon has announced that it is producing 'millions' more Kindle Fire tablets to meet high pre-order demand for the multitouch device, due out in America next month.

Motorola, via its Twitter account, has reportedly confirmed that a number of its tablet and smartphone devices will be receiving an Ice Cream Sandwich flavoured update just six weeks after Google releases the OS' final build.

Reports have emerged suggesting Sony Ericsson is set to upgrade its Xperia range of devices to Google's new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system sooner rather than later.

Samsung's seemingly cursed Galaxy Tab 10.1 has finally been given a release date by T-Mobile.

With the company's Nokia World event less than one day away, analysts and critics alike have begun to question what the former king of the smartphones will bring to the table to combat Apple's iPhone 4S and Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.

Rockstar Games has today revealed the first artwork for Grand Theft Auto 5 and has announced that the first trailer will be released next week.

Despite his reputation for talking down competitors and claiming Android to have 'ripped off' the iPhone, Steve Jobs described HP's dramatic exit from the tablet market as "tragic".

World of Warcraft may come to iPad and smartphones, as game developer Blizzard reveals that it is working on mobile and tablet games.

New reports have emerged suggesting Apple's fabled iPad 3 will be released in just five months.

The first of Samsung's next wave of anti-Apple smartphones, the Galaxy Note, is set to be unveiled in London Thursday, leading to fresh speculation on whether Samsung's new plus-sized smartphone will be able to carve out its own section of the crowded high-end device market.

Rumours of an Apple television have done the rounds before and resulting in nothing more than the Apple TV set-top box, that Steve Jobs referred to as "a hobby" after it sold badly.

New research suggests Microsoft and Nokia's forthcoming set of smartphones will help the company's ailing Windows Phone OS grow to account for 12.3 per cent of the smartphone market -- nearly a quarter of the share forecast for Google's Android.

Rumours of an Apple television set are continuing to build, with Bloomberg reporting Tuesday that the software engineer who built iTunes is leading development of the future product.

A semi-tethered jailbreak is now available for iOS 5, allowing the new firmware to be jailbroken, while providing the ability to use core functions if rebooted and not connected to a computer.

A developer claims to have got the voice-activated personal assistant Siri fully working on an iPhone 4 and promises that the app will be made available soon.

New MacBook Pros have been released today, offering increased processor speeds and larger hard drives for all models, while retaining the same prices.