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• 18 November 2010

• News: Twitter to continue duplicating external apps

  Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams was unapologetic on Wednesday about his company's recent decisions to build features for the site that duplicate and often render irrelevant applications created by third-party developers.

• News: Dell head of mobile to leave company

  Just as it gets back into the mobile-phone business, Dell is losing its top mobile executive.

• 15 November 2010

• News: China supercomputer named world's fastest

  A new supercomputer installation in China has rocketed to the top of the twice-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

• 12 November 2010

• Video: Samsung shows high-tech, see-through window displays

  Flat-panel screens are intended to be used as high-tech windows

• News: Fibre leads fixed broadband rise

  Global fixed broadband subscribers increased by 1.4 percent from 456.5 million in the second quarter of 2010 to 463 million in the third quarter of 2010. Among the fixed broadband platforms, the major subscriber net addition was in the fibre segment.

• News: 23 technology buzzwords that we'd like banned

  As technology moves forward, the English language sometimes takes a step backward. You can thank public relations professionals, CEOs and technology journalists for that. Whether grammatically incorrect or simply annoying, here's our list of 23 overused tech buzzwords that are painful to hear.

• 11 November 2010

• News: BlackBerry down but still top in 2015

  Global smartphone shipments to mobile business customers are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent. But there will be a hyper-competitive marketplace defined by the operating system.

• News: BT fibre rolled out to three million premises in the UK

  BT's fibre broadband service has been rolled out to more than three million premises around the UK.

• News: Motorola hits back with lawsuit against Microsoft

  Motorola's mobile phone subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging the world's largest software maker has infringed 16 of its patents in PC, mobile and server software, as well as Xbox products.

• 09 November 2010

• Video: DoCoMo demos 56Mbps LTE downloads

  Demonstrates new LTE data service for first time

• 08 November 2010

• News: Apple kills Xserve server line

  Apple has said it will stop selling its Xserve rack servers early next year, killing a product that has traditionally sold in low quantities.

• News: Dell ditches BlackBerry for Windows Phone 7

  Dell is moving its 25,000 employees from BlackBerrys to its own Windows Phone 7-based smartphone as the company prepares to offer a service that enables customers to make the same switch, Dell confirmed Friday.

• News: Amazon.com to buy Diapers.com & Soap.com

  Amazon.com has agreed to acquire Quidsi, operator of online retailers Soap.com and Diapers.com, for about US$540 million, according to published reports.

• 03 November 2010

• News: Android gains smartphone market share

  Google Android continues to gain ground in the smartphone market, rising 6.5 percentage points to capture 21.4 percent of all US-based smartphone subscribers from July to September 2010.

• Video: One Laptop Per Child XO-3 tablet delayed

  Interview with OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte

• 02 November 2010

• News: Samsung Galaxy Tab costs only £128 in parts

  Calling Samsung's Galaxy Tab a jumbo smartphone rather than a "true competitor" to Apple's iPad, iSuppli calculated a $205.22 bill of materials in its Galaxy Tab teardown.

• News: Report: Apple, Google vying for mobile payment startup

  Both Apple and Google are in talks to acquire Boku, a company offering online payment technology via mobile phones according to TechCrunch.

• News: Google sues US govt over Microsoft deal

  Google and a reseller of its products have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior after the agency solicited bids for cloud-based e-mail and messaging services specifying that bidders must use Microsoft products.

• News: Facebook punishes developers over user privacy

  Facebook is blocking several application developers for passing certain information to a data broker in the latest move by the social networking site to control growing concerns over privacy

• 01 November 2010

• News: Microsoft buys interface chip firm Canesta

  Microsoft is acquiring Canesta, a company that has developed chips that allow natural user interactions with machines, furthering Microsoft's goal of creating more natural user interfaces.

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