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With Microsoft's quarterly earnings report arriving imminently, critics and analysts have come to question whether the company's recently released Windows Phone Mango OS will be able to compete with Apple and Google's new operating systems.

Alarm bells should be ringing yet again at BlackBerry, as a major high street store has slashed the price of the PlayBook tablet by £150.

While not boasting the 200 new features Apple's recently released iOS 5 houses, Google's new Android Ice Cream Sandwich does pack several new features, indicating it will at the very least give Apple's OS a run for its money this November.

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It's been a hugely popular week for technology, with the much-anticipated arrival of the iPhone 4S with voice-controlled Siri, and the massive BlackBerry BlackOut, which saw tens of millions of users lose service for three days. This week also saw the release of Forza Motorsport 4 and yet another legal spat between Apple and Samsung.

RIM - BlackBerry's maker - announced Monday that more than $100 worth of premium apps will be available for free for BlackBerry users who were affected by the outages last week.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to trial the use of iPhones and iPads among senior staff, replacing their current BlackBerrys in a move that could see RIM lose out to Apple as the business phone of choice.

One in five BlackBerry users are considering switching to a different supplier after last week’s service problems left millions with no internet, email or BlackBerry messenger.

BlackBerry maker, RIM has recently held a press conference to try and explain the recent issues they’ve been having over the past four days.

RIM Founder and Co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis has apologised for not delivering the company objectives this week but says there is no time or date of when the probably will be wholly fixed.

With BlackBerry's three day epic service fail only just ending, analysts have speculated that Apple's new iMessage service may turn a number of jilted BlackBerry customers to its recently released iOS 5 operating system.

Despite widespread customer complaints and continuing reports of problems with its email and messenger service, BlackBerry has failed to offer compensation, or even apologise to its jilted customers, leading to fresh speculation that the company is digging its own grave.

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.

In a press conference today BlackBerry has finally confirmed that the recent series of outages is due to a backlog of European messages.

The problems Blackberry have been facing with internet services such as BBM and Facebook have now spread to the USA.

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.

Blackberry is still experiencing severe difficulties, which could not have come at a better time for Apple who is today launching the widely anticipated iOS5.

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.

With the positive critical reaction Apple's highly anticipated iOS 5 is getting on its Wednesday release, analysts have once again questioned whether Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS will be able to compete.

Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS5 will be launching later today, but why is there so much buzz surrounding it?

The Great BlackBerry BlackOut of 2011 couldn't have come at a worse time for Research in Motion, manufacturer of the affected phones, with its market share tumbling and competitors excelling.

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.

The newest operating system update to the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod touch, called iOS 5, is available to download from today.iOS 5 brings an entirely new notifications system, a BlackBerry Messenger-rivaling free messaging app, system-wide Twitter integration and increased performance, giving users the feeling of a brand new phone.

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Blackberry users have been left frustrated after they were left without messaging, email and web browsing services for 20 hours yesterday.

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.

BlackBerry has demonstrated its new Tag system, which uses near-field technology (NFC) to let users share their contact details by tapping two BlackBerrys together.

BlackBerry and phone networks worldwide were forced to apologies to tens of millions of customers yesterday, as a server crash in Slough caused the loss of internet data, email and BlackBerry Messenger.

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.

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.