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01 March 2011
News: Sir Steve Jobs snubbed by PM

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused to knight Steve Jobs because the sick Apple boss had turned down an invitation to address a labour Party conference.
Video: CeBIT 2011: Watch Asus Wavi Xtion in action

Asus demonstrates a motion sensing device for PC that works like the Xbox Kinect
Video: CeBIT 2011: day 2

What's happening today at Cebit, including a robot & brain control interface
News: European Court to rule on used software trading

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has been asked to decide whether the trading of "used" software licenses is legal.
News: Intel completes $7.7bn McAfee acquisition

Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced on Monday.
News: Ex-Apple manager pleads guilty to fraud

Paul Devine, a former Apple manager accused of taking kickbacks from the company's suppliers in Asia, pled guilty in a San Jose federal court to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
28 February 2011
Video: CeBIT 2011: Vodafone 'Nokia Microsoft deal is good news'

We speak to Jan Geldmacher, CEO of Vodafone Germany
Video: CeBIT 2011: Day 1 preview

World's largest IT fair begins today in Germany
News: How Google's search changes affect your website

Google has supposedly declared war against "content farms," yet has never come out and said that. In fact, all Google says in a Thursday blog post is that it has launched "a pretty big algorithmic improvement" to how it ranks search results. Google writes that its goal is to improve rankings so that supposed "high-quality" sites will rank higher than "low-quality" content.
News: Microsoft unveils latest gesture interfaces

The future is here (well, sort of) with the latest in gesture technology from Microsoft. Not only could you soon be able to draw without ever touching the screen or a mouse, but the screen could follow your eyes to project a 3D image directly at you. Check out this video from Microsoft Research on YouTube as Microsoft's Applied Sciences director, Steven Batchiche, shows off the latest gesture tech.
25 February 2011
Video: WikiLeaks' Assange loses court battle

Plus: Motorola Xoom launch, and more tech stories
News: China blocks LinkedIn in web censorship push

The social networking site LinkedIn has been blocked in China, a move that analysts say is tied to Chinese government efforts to suppress mention of a "Jasmine Revolution" on the internet.
24 February 2011
News: What is Thunderbolt, Intels new 10Gbps port?

Intel's Thunderbolt technology will transfer data between host devices and external devices at speeds of up to 10Gbps (bits per second).
News: Intel dominates as Q4 chip shipments slip

While 2010 as a whole was a year of growth for the global computer chip market, Q4 took a bit of a hit.
News: Researchers create computer that fits on a pen tip

Researchers at the University of Michigan have created the first prototype for a millimeter-scale computing system that can hold up to a week's worth of data when implanted in something as small as a human eye.
News: 93% of tablets sold are iPads

4.5 million tablet PCs shipped during the third quarter of 2010. Of those, about 93 percent were Apple iPads.
News: Apple CEO succession plan rejected by shareholders

Apple's shareholders rejected a proposal in which the company would have to adopt and disclose its CEO succession planning policy.
22 February 2011
News: iPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning

Guo Ruiqiang, one of 137 workers that Apple said was exposed to n-hexane, a chemical cleaning agent that was used at one of its supplier's factories in Suzhou, China, says he still feels sick more than a year after he suffered chemical poisoning while working on an iPhone production line.
21 February 2011
News: Intel to hire 4,000 workers this year

Intel will hire 4,000 workers in the US this year, primarily in product development and research and development, the company said on Friday.
19 February 2011
News: 10 ways in which Google is the new Microsoft

Google is the new Microsoft. Something tells me you've heard that one before. By my count, people have been saying that since 2005. But the question remains: Is it really a fair comparison?