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30 March 2011
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

Plus all this week's big tech stories
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.
16 March 2011
News: Samsung owns 20% of TV market

Samsung held the largest market share of all flat-panel TVs (including LCD, LED and plasma) with nearly 20 percent in the first three quarters of 2010.
News: Games console sales decline

Game console and portable game player shipments in 2010 declined from 2009 (roughly -3 percent for consoles and -30 percent for portable game players).
Opinion: The 'post-PC world'. More PCs please

At the iPad 2 launch (you may have noticed it), Steve Jobs used the phrase “post-PC world”, suggesting that Apple’s second-generation Tablet means the PC is no longer central to our lives.
15 March 2011
News: Facebook Expands Deals with Groupon-Like Coupon Feature

Facebook is expanding its Deals local business discount service to compete directly with so-called "social buying" coupon sites such as Groupon and Living Social.
Video: New HP CEO bets big on cloud computing

Will offer public cloud service