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• 13 April 2010

• News: Google buys UK search engine startup

  Google has acquired a two-person U.K. startup called Plink that scored a hit with a mobile phone application that identifies artworks and enables users to buy a print.

• 12 April 2010

• News: New Dell smartphones leaked to web

  The Chinese mobile phone regulator has leaked pictures of two Dell smartphones on the web.

• News: HTC and Lenovo to bid for Palm?

  Palm is thought to have put itself up for sale.

• News: Adobe Flash evangelist: 'Go screw yourself Apple'

  Responding to a change in the licensing terms for developers building applications for version 4.0 of the iPhone, a technology evangelist for Adobe Systems has told Apple to go perform an anatomically impossible act.

• 10 April 2010

• News: Reader stories: it shouldn't happen to an IT professional

  Anyone who works in IT, whether it's supporting users, developing apps, or managing networks, will have plenty of stories to tell. We've asked a number of our readers to tell us their tales about life in the tech trenches.

• 09 April 2010

• News: Swisscom buys Wayport Wi-Fi hotspot business

  AT&T is selling off its Wayport Wi-Fi business in Europe, which includes hotspots in airports, hotels and McDonald's, to Swisscom.

• 08 April 2010

• News: Intel to ship first 48-core processor

  Intel will ship computers with an experimental 48-core processor to researchers by the end of the second quarter as the company tries to reshape its future chips.

• 07 April 2010

• News: Photographers hit Google Books with legal action

  Google is facing legal action from the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) over the search engine's attempt to create an online library and store with millions of books.

• News: AOL to offload struggling Bebo

  AOL is actively trying to rid itself of Bebo, the social-networking site it acquired two years ago for a whopping US$850 million.

• News: China denies hacking after spy ring revealed

  China on Tuesday rejected "insinuations" of involvement by its government in cyberattacks after North American researchers exposed a China-based cyber-espionage ring that targeted computers in the Indian military and elsewhere.

• 01 April 2010

• News: Ofcom wants a reduction in mobile termination rates

  Ofcom has proposed reduced mobile termination rates, or the price operators pay to connect calls to other networks.

• News: Facebook feud not over despite settlement

  Two former classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that claim the social networking site was their idea have said their battle isn't over, despite receiving a $65m settlement last year.

• 31 March 2010

• News: Campaign against Digital Economy Bill raises £17k

  A website urging Brits to write to their MPs in a bid to stop the Digital Economy Bill being rushed through Parliament has raised over £17,000, which will be used to further fund its campaign.

• 30 March 2010

• News: Mobile data traffic to quadruple by 2014

  Mobile data traffic from PC roters and modems is forecast to increase fourfold between 2010 and 2014. In 2010 some 2,000 petabytes of data will be sent and received, a figure that will rise to about 8,000 petabytes in 2014.

• News: Apple vets launch 'Insanely funny' spoof site

  Two key veterans of Apple's ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day have created spoof Apple news site Scoopertino.com to disseminate "insanely funny" fake news stories.

• News: Warner Bros recruiting anti-piracy intern

  Warner Bros is looking to the University of Manchester in a bid to fight the battle against internet piracy.

• News: Square Group acquires Computer Warehouse name

  Square Group has revealed it has acquire certain assets of Apple reseller Computer Warehouse, including its brand name.

• 29 March 2010

• News: Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk to split

  Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk will complete a demerger today, with the retail and telecom arms taking separate listings on the stock market.

• News: RIM buys BlackBerry app developer Viigo

  Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, a developer of software that delivers syndicated content to mobile phones, according to a brief note on Viigo's Web site.

• 26 March 2010

• News: Great Firewall of China spreads overseas

  A networking error earlier this week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of the Great Firewall of China, redirecting Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube users to Chinese servers.

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