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• 17 February 2010

• News: Mobile shopping reaches critical mass

  In 2015 shoppers around the world will spend about $119 billion on goods and services purchased via mobile phones. That's about 8 percent of the total e-commerce market.

• 15 February 2010

• News: Powermat embeds itself in smartphones

  Powermat, a company that specialises in wirelessly charging gadgets such as BlackBerry smartphones and iPhones, is to start marketing wireless battery packs. This will enable handsets to be recharged without the need for an accessory device to pick up the charge.

• News: ARM demos smartbooks and DIY smartphones

  ARM has been showing off reference designs for smartbooks and Android-based mobile phones based around its low-power processors. Dual-core Android smartphones are set to launch by the end of this year

• News: EU approves HP's $2.7bn 3Com acquisition

  The European Commission has approved Hewlett-Packard's US$2.7 billion takeover of 3Com without attaching conditions, the Commission announced on Friday.

• 13 February 2010

• News: Is augmented reality the next big thing in smartphones?

  Augmented reality in smartphones is set to become the next big thing. We look at what the concept is, what it'll be used for and whether current smartphones can handle the technology.

• 12 February 2010

• News: Analysts: expansion could harm Google

  If Google continues to diversify, it is in danger of losing focus on what made it such a profitable company, say analysts.

• News: Motorola to split into two companies next year

  Motorola will be split into two publicly traded companies in the first quarter of next year, with one focusing on handsets and home entertainment devices and the other on making enterprise communications gear, the company said Thursday.

• 11 February 2010

• News: Civil Liberties group objects to Google/NSA link

  The American Civil Liberties Union is asking its members to contact Google executives and ask them not to work with the U.S. National Security Agency to investigate cyberattacks allegedly coming from China.

• 09 February 2010

• News: Bing boings but Google grows

  According to comScore's "The 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review" report, during the course of the year Microsoft Sites grew from 8.3 percent to 10.7 percent share of all search queries with nearly all of that growth coming in the second half of 2009 subsequent to Bing's introduction.

• News: BT: We'll open fibre network if other ISPs follow

  BT wants all UK ISPs to make their infrastructures available to each other in a bid to increase broadband coverage in the country.

• News: Microsoft's Xbox used for healthcare research

  Microsoft is researching how gadgets like the company's Xbox game machine, surface computers and accelerometers in mobile phones could be used to improve health care.

• 08 February 2010

• News: Touchscreen smartphones up 138%

  For the first time ever, smartphones with touch screens accounted for more than half of all smartphone shipments globally in Q4 2009, taking 55 percent of the market.

• News: Nokia sued by group of shareholders

  A group of shareholders are suing Nokia, alleging the company committed securities fraud when describing its operations in 2008.

• News: Symantec sued over Norton Antivirus auto-renewals

  A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that the company did not notify him before charging $76 to his credit card.

• News: Dell loses appeal in defective laptops lawsuit

  A class-action lawsuit in which Dell was accused of shipping defective laptops will go back to trial after a ruling was reversed by a federal appeals court on Friday.

• 05 February 2010

• News: Europe trails world on fibre broadband

  The number of fixed broadband subscribers worldwide will rise to 501 million at the end of 2014. Of those, about 106 million will subscribe to services delivered via fibre.

• News: Apple iPhone sales jump 98 percent

  Sales of the Apple iPhone have grown 98 percent, outsripping smartphone growth from long-time leaders Nokia and Research in Motion.

• News: Internet Explorer more popular than was thought

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is used much more than most assume, says Devil Mountain Software.

• News: Microsoft fights 'clumsy, uncompetitive innovator' tag

  Microsoft this week said it remains competitive and innovative, defending itself against an opinion piece written by a former vice president.

• News: Apple's power could help it win trademark in Europe

  Apple's position in the tech market could help in winning the right to use the iPad name in Europe.

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