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• 24 December 2010

• News: Rovi to buy Roxio owner Sonic Solutions

  Rovi Corporation has signed an agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions in an all-stock deal worth around US$720 million, the company said on Wednesday.

• 23 December 2010

• News: Steve Jobs named 'Person Of The Year'

  The Financial Times has named Apple CEO Steve Jobs as its 2010 ‘Person Of The Year’.

• News: The top tech quotes of 2010

  As 2010 draws to a close we flipped through our reporters' notebooks to find the more memorable quotes and 'did he really say that?' moments

• 21 December 2010

• News: SEC investigating Hurd's departure from HP

  The US Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an information investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mark Hurd's departure from Hewlett-Packard, according to The Wall Street Journal.

• 20 December 2010

• News: EU may delay Intel's McAfee acquisition

  European regulators are looking closely at Intel's planned McAfee acquisition and may hold up the deal with an investigation

• 17 December 2010

• News: Dell and AMD execs sold inside information

  Four executives at publicly traded technology companies have been arrested on charges they sold inside information about their employers, sometimes for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

• News: Yahoo to shut AltaVista & Delicious?

  More Yahoo applications and services will be shut down or merged with existing products in the coming months, the company has said.

• 16 December 2010

• News: 4G held back by 3G investment

  LTE (Long-Term Evolution) 4G technology is forecast to generate US$942 million in service revenue in the US in 2015, with nearly a further $650 million to come from Western Europe.

• 15 December 2010

• News: Tablet market already 'crowded'

  There are more than 60 distinct media tablet models available from nearly 50 different manufacturers already available in at least one country or region.

• News: Yahoo fires 600 staff

  Yahoo confirmed that it has laid off 600 people, following news reports often based on Twitter messages from employees who had been let go.

• News: BBC Online budget to be cut by 25 percent

  BBC Online’s budget will be slashed by 25 percent, the BBC Trust has confirmed.

• News: Apple iPhone, Google Android deadlocked for top mobile ad share

  Android and the iPhone OS remain deadlocked in a heated battle for market share in the realm of mobile advertising.

• 14 December 2010

• News: The rise of the ultra-low-cost mobile phone

  Shipments of ultra-low-cost mobile phones will grow to more than 360 million by 2015, while shipments of low-cost handsets will reach 249 million by the same time period.

• News: IBM builds 3 petaflop computer for Germany

  The global race for supercomputing power continues unabated: Germany's Bavarian Academy of Science has announced that it has contracted IBM to build a supercomputer that, when completed in 2012, will be able to execute up to 3 petaflops, potentially making it the world's most powerful supercomputer.

• 10 December 2010

• Video: Facebook unveils redesigned profile pages

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• News: Skype expands support for Symbian phones

  VOIP (voice over internet protocol) telco Skype has released an update to its Symbian App adding support for extra Nokia mobile phone models.

• News: NXP Semiconductors strategically collaborates with Google

  NXP Semiconductors has strategically collaborated with Google to provide a complete open source software stack for Near Field Communications (NFC).

• News: The top 10 games of November 2010

  As expected, Call of Duty: Black Ops ruled the sales charts for November 2010. However, the game's level of domination was revealed even further in the monthly sales results from the NPD Group.

• 09 December 2010

• Video: EU fines flat-screen firms for illegal cartel

  Samsung is given reprieve for tip-off

• News: Ex-Microsoft CTO's firm files patent lawsuits

  Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer and broker started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine tech companies, including Symantec, McAfee and Hynix Semiconductor.

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