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The iPhone 4S has given Apple an early Christmas present, by "significantly" outselling all other smartphones in the four weeks to December 9.

Apple is believed to be developing a next-generation television set that will be controlled by users' voice and hand movements, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Android users visit Facebook on their smartphones more often than iPhone users, with 68.2 percent returning to the application every single day.

Apple has released a new commercial for Siri, featuring Santa Claus using the personal assistant to get directions to houses, check the weather and listen to an email from Mrs Claus.

British Telecom has sued Google's Android mobile operating system, as it believes that the software infringes six patents in its Maps, Music and Android Market applications.

The author of Steve Jobs' biography has announced that the book may be added to in the future and that the current edition is "not the final draft".

The Danish bank Saxo has released it's ten most outrageous business and financial predictions for the new year.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced Thursday that its new BlackBerry 10 operating system is being delayed until the end of next year.

It is being widely reported that Apple's iCloud and iTunes services are suffering a network outage, with users complaining that they are unable to log in.

Apple is thought to be releasing a smaller, 7.85-inch iPad towards the end of next year to compete against the increasingly popular Amazon Kindle Fire.

Facebook announced today that Timeline, a radical overhaul of users' profile pages that documents their lives, is now available to everyone.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted he cried when he discoverd that the late Steve Jobs had tricked him into designing a game for which Jobs received a majority of the profit.

Now that the sales ban of the Galaxy tablet has been overturned, Samsung has wasted little time in kicking Apple where it hurts - by drawing on the publicity of its legal battle against the iPad manufacturer to fuel a newspaper advertising campaign.

With the year now coming to a close and Sony still recovering from its hacking troubles, analysts have already pegged Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the winner of this year's battle of the consoles.

Nine months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast of Japan, Google has uploaded photos of the affected areas on its Street View mapping site. The images show the path of destruction left behind by the tsunami.

Grand Theft Auto 3 is now available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as developer Rock Star Games released an iOS version of the hugely popular PlayStation 2 game.

Google announced that millions of dollars have channeled to fund education and eliminate human trafficking this year.

It is believed that Google Android will launch its own rival to Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant featured on the iPhone 4S.

Codemasters has unveiled the latest addition to its award-winning DiRT rallying franchise; called DiRT Showdown the game promises to be an arcade thriller and will be available next May.

Apple is believed to be developing a new MacBook Pro offering four times the pixels of the current model, totalling an incredible resolution of 2880 by 1800.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to close down the English-language section of the vast user-generated encyclopaedia in protest over a U.S. bill against online piracy.

The 1976 contract that established Apple as a corporate company sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million (£1.03m), some ten times high than its estimate.

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 hitting the stores, 2011 has definitely been the year of the first-person shooter; but have you ever felt that the maps are a bit, well, small?

If you're hoping to get an iPad 2 this Christmas, then it might be Worthing holding on until the New Year, as rumours emerging from the Chinese supply chains claim the iPad 3 will be available in just a few months.Here at the International Business Times UK, we've compiled all of the latest iPad 3 rumours into this cut-out-and-keep guide.

A bug has been discovered in Windows Phone 7 that causes the phone to reboot and breaks the messaging hub, all by sending a certain text message to the phone.

Apple opened its biggest-ever store last week, at the Grand Central station, New York.

Chip maker Intel has slashed its predicted revenues by $1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2011, in the wake of the severe flooding in Thailand.

Court documents have revealed that the two BlackBerry executives who's drunken behaviour forced a flight to land last week "chewed through" restraints.

THQ has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel to its Darksiders video game, simply called Death and set for a 2012 release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.