TECHNOLOGY

Hugh Jackman's latest film, Real Steel, includes an easter-egg scene containing a teaser advertisement for Microsoft's rumoured, next-generation Xbox 720 games console.

Blackberry users are suffering loss of internet, email and Blackberry Messenger as a server crash at a data centre in Slough causes a data blackout across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

EA Sports and Adidas Originals have created a partnership around the newest 'Need for Speed' racing game, The Run, offering special trainers and apparel.

Apple has issued a statement confirming, despite an initially tepid consumer response, its recently unveiled iPhone 4S has officially broken the opening day pre-order record set by its predecessor, the iPhone 4.

A man from Texas has pleaded not guilty to battery after allegedly beating his wife because she didn’t ‘like’ his Facebook status.

Just days after a number of sites "leaked" images of Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS, a new anonymous source has released a video allegedly showing Ice Cream Sandwich running on the fabled Google Nexus Prime smartphone.

Sony is set to acquire the rights to a movie about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last week.

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.

Dell is rumoured to have dropped the upcoming Wrigley handset, which was set to run on the newly released Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system.

A team at Manchester University have developed a sandwich-like architecture of the material graphene that could see the material move closer to replacing silicon.

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

New reports have emerged suggesting a select number of the horde of Apple fans pre-ordering the company's iPhone 4S may get it before the device's 14 October release date.

Forza 4 hits the shelves in the UK on Friday October 14 and hopes to kick Gran Turismo 5 off the top spot of the driving simulator podium, bringing with it Kinect support and Top Gear extras.

The iPhone 4S could be jailbroken in record time, as the first two people queuing at the Regent Street store are organisers of Jailbreak Con.

New images of Google's highly anticipated answer to Apple's iOS 5, Android Ice Cream Sandwich have been "leaked" across the internet.

Mickey Welsh, former bassist for the U.S. rock band Weezer, predicted he would die in Chicago just weeks before he passed away in a hotel room in the city.

Samsung has delayed Tuesday's unveiling of its touted Google Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Galaxy Nexus, reportedly out of respect for rival Apple's Steve Jobs.

Two people are being held on suspicion of burglary after iPads were stolen from the Covent Garden Apple Store early on Monday morning.

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

With the iPad dominating tablet sales the world over, leaving other manufacturers in its dust - the HP Touchpad saw a massive price cut, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab struggled to sell - HTC is hoping the Jetstream will make a dent in Apple's market share.

Mobile carrier AT&T has confirmed that it received over 200,000 pre-orders for Apple's recently unveiled iPhone 4S, just 12 hours after opening it to pre-orders, making it "the most successful iPhone launch" ever.

In a heartwarming event, social networking site Facebook turned lifesaver for a man who woke up paralyzed and had no other means of communicating with the outside world, save a status update.

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

Google, briefly, let slip the release date of its iOS 5, iPhone 4S killing Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, leading to fresh speculation of an Apple vs Google showdown this October.

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.

Steve Jobs, when he was stricken with terminal cancer and too ill to even climb the stairs during the last days of his life, reportedly opened up about his private life.

Steve Jobs, despite knowing the fact that he had been dying, had worked for more than a year on the products that, according to him, would safeguard Apple's future.

It had to happen eventually, and to be honest we're surprised that it's taken this long, but drivers can now enjoy being bossed around by Jeremy Clarkson.

Following a recent spat of "leaked" reports regarding Google's fabled Nexus Prime smartphone, a new batch of "evidence" has appeared indicating the device will be released 27 October, placing its release just weeks after Apple's iPhone 4S.