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 - December 23
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- 8 brilliant gadgets that totally failed to launch
 - Facebook 'suggested events' feature rolls out
 - OnLive heads to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
 - Big numbers but more patent hassle for Android
 - What is a DSLT? Fixed mirror cameras detailed
 - PS Vita UK game and accessory prices revealed
 - Apple investigating fuel cell powered MacBooks
 
 - December 22
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- Nintendo: You won't see Mario on Facebook
 - Facebook reveals 'most popular games of 2011'
 - Tech firms! Stop using us to beta test unfinished kit
 - Ebook pricing could fall after VAT cut
 - 10 tech trends to watch for in 2012
 - PC tech in 2012: what to expect
 - Firefox 9 for Android now available for tablets
 - Steve Jobs wins Grammy for contribution to music
 - How OnLive is bringing console games to tablets
 - Symbian brand dropped by Nokia
 - Facebook agrees to data changes following Irish audit
 - Hasbro sues Asus over Transformer Prime name
 - Sony Ericsson Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade dates offically unveiled
 - Cameras in 2012: what we want to see
 - AMD's Radeon HD 7970 gets reviewed
 
 - December 21
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- Microsoft's 2012 CES keynote will be its last
 - Apple sending new iPod nanos to replace faulty 1st gen
 - Microsoft in 2012: what to expect
 - Lovefilm signs Sony up for on-demand content
 - 700,000 Android devices now activated every day
 - Crowdfunding: A great way to get your photography idea made
 - Olympus offices raided by police
 - Nokia and Microsoft tempted by joint bid for RIM?
 
 - December 20
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- Google Music launches massive sale
 - NFL Superbowl to be streamed online for first time
 - Nikon Capture NX 2.3.0 and View NX 2.2.5 unveiled
 - Manfrotto launches LED lights
 - Highs and lows for Apple in 2011
 - Google needs to go nuclear over Android
 - We played safe with Avatar 3D, says Cameron's partner
 - The 10 biggest gadget letdowns of 2011
 - Online music and videos to get explicit 'sticker' in UK
 - Nokia confirms Lumia 800 battery issues
 - Jessops introduces Tecno bags
 - Netflix seals deal with BBC for UK market
 - Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO launches
 - YouTube's 2011 UK hits revealed
 
 - December 19
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- AT&T abandons $39bn T-Mobile USA takeover
 - Sony 'sorry' for PS Vita bugs
 - Google planning iPad-rivalling Nexus tablet?
 - Google+ gets a 'goodie basket' of changes
 - Nikon D4 available from January 2012?
 - Highs and lows for Google in 2011
 - RIM shares fall after news of BlackBerry delays
 - Emergency blackout plans for fibre optic world revealed
 - Doubts over Fusion Garage and Grid 10's future
 - Canon to release mirrorless CSC in 2012?
 - IBM predicts tech world of 2016
 - Sony PS Vita launches in Japan
 - 'Material uncertainties' over HMV future
 - Apple in talks over its iTV project
 - BT launches patent case against Google
 - WIN! Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol GPS snow goggles
 
 - December 18
 - December 17
 - December 16
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- Sprint 'disables' Carrier IQ software
 - Sir David Attenborough and Sky announce Galapagos 3D
 - iTunes nabs exclusive Avatar special edition
 - Amazon selling over 1 million Kindles a week
 - Lithium scarcity could hit cameras
 - Lomography Store Manchester launch: in pictures
 - Apple A5 chip production ramped up by Samsung in US
 - Fighting piracy, or removing freedom?
 - Nikon D800: what we want to see
 - TechRadar's best gear of 2011
 - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime UK pre-order opens
 
 - December 15
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- Amazon selling over a million Kindles a week
 - Sony Ericsson releases early Ice Cream Sandwich build
 - Sky news cameraman uses Panasonic GH2
 - Microsoft finally brings auto-update to Internet Explorer
 - Google granted driverless car patent
 - Sky quietly blocks Newzbin2 following court order
 - Flowd 'honestly happy' to have abandoned BlackBerry plans
 - Facebook Timeline now available to everyone
 - Sony to unveil Ericsson-free Xperia phones at CES 2012?
 - New Hipstamatic app unveiled
 - StatCounter: Chrome 15 'world's most popular browser'
 - iTunes Match makes brief UK debut
 - Olympus expects losses on digital camera biz
 - Tech rides high in UK's top Google searches of 2011
 - Attenborough points to limited scope in 3D nature docs
 - Google founder rails against anti-piracy bills
 - LG to show off WiDi televisions at CES 2012
 
 - December 14
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- Louis C.K. makes fortune with internet-only show
 - Next big thing in mobile? Bluetooth, says Qualcomm
 - Nokia 710 official on T-Mobile USA
 - MySpace out of UK's 'top 10 social networks' list
 - UK public the most savvy online but Smart TVs a turn off
 - New Tom Ang Digital Photography app debuted
 - Microsoft may buy Nokia in early 2012
 - Google prepping Majel - a Siri rival for Android
 - Nikon demonstrates Motion Snapshot feature
 - Trillion frames per sec camera developed
 - Asus Transformer Prime Android 4.0 update coming in January?
 - Apple in 2012: 10 things to expect
 - Olympus meets delisting deadline
 - Olympus introduces powerzoom lens
 - New 'entertainment experiences' arrive on Xbox
 - Google hands £550,000 to Bletchley Park
 - Cloned games banned from Android Market
 - US agency advises cellphone driving ban
 
 - December 13
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- Google Chrome 16 lands with multi-user features
 - Alienware launches 'world's most advanced gaming PC'
 - Rara on being the 'cheap and easy' music service
 - First UK towns to get local TV channel revealed
 - Rara.com to bring music streaming 'to the masses'
 - No 4G? Blame the networks
 - Windows Phone head moved into new post
 
 - December 12
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- Sony Ericsson Xperia Nozomi gets full photographic outing
 - iPad as crucial as Kindle for ebooks, says digital book converter
 - Call of Duty like Star Wars and Harry Potter, says CEO
 - Mac App Store hits 100 million app downloads
 - BBC working on Android iPlayer app update
 - How to convert video for your iPhone or iPod
 - BBC finally unveils iPlayer for iPhone app
 - O2 Lease: smartphone rental scheme announced
 - Samsung sells 300 million phones in 2011
 - UK 4G roll out not until 2015 warns Ofcom
 - 20 best free Windows Phone 7.5 Mango apps
 - WIN! A Toshiba Camileo BW10 and Nero photo goodies
 - Microsoft Sliverlight 5.0 is released
 
 - December 11
 - December 10
 - December 9
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- HP to use WebOS in new tablets
 - HP gifts WebOS to open source
 - UK next to get Google Wallet in time for the Olympics
 - Instagram tops iTunes Best of the Year chart
 - Microsoft: NFC already supported in Windows Phone
 - Cameras in TV adverts: are they any good?
 - Hands on: New Xbox 360 dashboard review
 - Second-gen Android tabs take the fight to Apple
 - Amazon top 20 filled with compact cameras
 - 10 gadgets to look forward to in 2012
 - Instagram photo app for Android confirmed
 - Panasonic announces new Android phone to launch in March
 
 - December 8
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- Google Currents app takes on Flipboard
 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 in the works?
 - Twitter rolls-out major design overhaul for web and apps
 - Five years of Wii-ing
 - UltraViolet landing in the UK on Boxing Day
 - Leica introduces V-Lux 3
 - Facebook reveals most popular UK news stories of the year
 - UK helps develops pioneering space camera
 - New memory card format revealed
 - Motorola Razr and Xoom to get ICS with more to follow
 - Nokia selling off Vertu luxury brand
 - Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I'm going to retire'
 - Tamron introduces superzoom for NEX
 - Google Goggles to read over neighbour's shoulder
 - OnLive launches iOS and Android gaming apps
 
 - December 7
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- T-Mobile and Nokia US event to see Windows Phone launch?
 - Android is beating iPhone, says Schmidt
 - Apple to build iMac with TV functionality?
 - Deezer: No US launch 'for foreseeable future'
 - Canon partners with Geo Tactical Solutions
 - Lomography to open Manchester shop
 - Color Confidence launches new ColorMunki packages
 - Lomo reveals leather spinner camera
 - Grand Theft Auto III coming to iOS and Android 15 December
 - Deezer goes global but spurns US and Japan
 - Olympus 'rotten to the core'
 - Ridley Scott: Film streaming is no replacement for Blu-ray
 - Kindle Fire to nab '50% of Android tablet market' in 2012
 - Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Neo in ICS tests
 - HTC sees 30% drop in sales in November
 - Nintendo 3DS update brings 3D video recording
 - Microsoft shows off Windows Store app platform
 
 - December 6
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- Facebook security flaw exposes private photos
 - BBC Global iPlayer app coming to iPhone, iPod touch
 - Android Market premium apps now just 10p
 - 7digital: iTunes has peaked
 - Video: Tobii EyeAsteroids - world's first eye-controlled game
 - Smartphones not killing camera sales
 - iPhone 5 hardware tests underway 'for high-res screens'
 - Kodak reshuffling to avoid bankruptcy
 - XXX web domains now available to all
 - PSN set for 'best Christmas ever' despite 2011 hack woes
 - TVs and cars are the future of music streaming, says Sony
 - UK's favourite viral ads of 2011 listed
 - Get your graph on with Google's new search feature
 - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime origami cover outed
 - Opera 11.60 gets full public release
 
 - December 5
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- Facebook confirms Gowalla buyout
 - Without Google's cash Firefox is stuffed
 - Sony to part with Ericsson phone brand 'mid-2012'
 - 38% of app-using Brits don't pay for apps
 - 10 Windows Phone 7.5 Mango tweaks
 - Question mark over Firefox and Google search deal
 - 24% of people now using mobile phone to pay in shops
 - Google testing Android 4.0 on Nexus S
 - Xbox 360 dashboard update to bring voice control this week
 
 - December 4
 - December 3
 - December 2
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- Samsung Galaxy S2 'catches fire' in man's pocket
 - Google+ Hangouts adds free voice calls in the US
 - Surplus PlayBook stock costing RIM $485m
 - How Microsoft is moving towards a single platform
 - LG Prada tablet on the cards?
 - Apple iTV sets 'to launch in 2012 with premium price tag'
 - Google wants to be the Beeb
 - Windows 8 public beta to land in February 2012?
 - Glasses-free 3D LG DX2500 monitor announced
 - Spotify, streaming and dying discs
 - Apple 'stopped supporting Carrier IQ' on most iOS devices
 - Napster ends service - now part of Rhapsody
 - YouTube debuts brand new homepage
 
 - December 1
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- Facebook status limit now 400 times bigger than Twitter's
 - UK phone brands deny invasive Carrier IQ use
 - Spotify: superb, or superbly cynical?
 - The BBC Micro at 30: a very British institution
 - In pictures: eBay Christmas Boutique
 - The Spy Files - Wikileaks spin-off announced
 - Hands on: Spotify Apps review
 - Chrome overtakes Firefox in global browser stats
 - Samsung Galaxy S3 likely to be powered by 2GHz dual-core chip
 - Nikon's Thailand factory expected to resume operation
 - Tesco and Blinkbox in disc-to-digital movie link-up
 - Roberts RecordR brings back home taping with SD-toting radio