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• 31 March 2011

• Video: New airport baggage screening technology unveiled

  Siemens Apron Baggage Screening can detect explosives and divert questionable bags

• News: Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci resigns from company

  Acer President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci has resigned from the company, over differing views on the future development of the company, Acer said.

• 30 March 2011

• News: Asus Eee Pad Transformer undercuts iPad 2

  Asus has announced UK shipping dates for its first two tablet PCs. The 16GB Google Android Honeycomb-based Asus Eee Pad Transformer will cost from £379 - £20 cheaper than the asking price for the 16GB Apple iPad 2.

• News: PC Advisor Awards 2011 celebration evening: pictures

  The great and the good of the UK technology industry gathered in Bloomsbury, London, last evening for the second annual PC Advisor Awards 2011 celebration, sponsored by Dell, HP and Webroot.

• News: Dell: iPad 2 will fail in enterprise market

  Despite the iPad's big head start in the enterprise - or large-business - market, Apple's tablet PC won't prosper there, according to an increasingly bullish Dell.

• News: Nokia throws more patent claims at Apple

  Nokia has filed a new round of complaints against Apple with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and with a Delaware court, the Finnish phone maker said on Tuesday.

• 29 March 2011

• News: eBay to pay £1.5bn for GSI Commerce

  EBay has agreed to acquire for about $2.4 billion (£1.5 billion) GSI Commerce, whose suite of e-commerce and digital marketing tools and services are expected to boost eBay's online marketplace and PayPal e-payment businesses.

• News: Microsoft, Google back UK entrepreneurship drive

  Microsoft and Google are among a number of IT companies that have pledged to support Prime Minister David Cameron’s initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in the UK.

• 24 March 2011

• News: Intel's McAfee unit to acquire Sentrigo

  Intel's McAfee subsidiary is to acquire Sentrigo, which provides database security and compliance products.

• 23 March 2011

• News: Sony suspends production at five factories

  Sony plans to temporarily suspend production at five factories in Japan because of problems obtaining raw materials and components following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, it said Tuesday.

• 22 March 2011

• News: BlackBerry Playbook onsale from 19 April

  RIM has finally put a date and a price to the BlackBerry Playbook tablet. It will cost $499 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version, $599 for the 32GB model and $699 for the 64GB Wi-Fi version. Best Buy is taking orders from US and Canadian customers from today with deliveries starting on 19 April.

• News: Google fined €100k for collecting Wi-Fi data

  Google must pay a fine of €100,000 (US$142,000) for the unauthorized collection of information about the location of Wi-Fi hotspots in France by its Street View cars, France's National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) has ordered.

• News: Microsoft sues Barnes & Noble over Android

  Microsoft has filed a patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble, accusing the company of running infringing software on its Android-based Nook e-reader.

• News: Apple sues Amazon over App Store name

  Apple has sued Amazon.com, claiming rights to the name App Store, which Amazon tagged on its new application store.

• 21 March 2011

• Video: Robot opera takes to stage

  It's called Death and the Powers

• News: Sun.com name could earn Oracle $1 million

  Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its US$7.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com.

• News: AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion

  AT&T plans to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $39 billion, the companies announced Sunday.

• 18 March 2011

• News: 75% of new phones aren't smart at all

  In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones – handsets that are dumber than smartphones – comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market.

• Video: Japan counts cost of natural disasters

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• 17 March 2011

• News: Visa takes on PayPal with direct payments

  Visa announced on Wednesday it is planning a new service that will let US customers send money directly to one another, presenting new competition to PayPal.

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