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Business-skewed social network LinkedIn today launched a new service which could become a key future revenue stream in the notoriously hard-to-monetise social space.

While many mobile devices makers, such as Apple and Samsung, are seeing record sales and ever-increasing revenues, Canadian firm Research In Motion are in the midst of a pronounced downward slide, which has today seen them announce a management restructuring and large-scale redundancies totalling around 11% of their workforce.

Wireless giant Qualcomm has kicked off a fitness challenge for its employees, in a bid to raise awareness of its wireless health initiatives and the development of new medical technologies

Market research firm comScore has released figures which claim Google + has shot past the 20 million visitor mark in just three weeks since its launch, seeing a whopping 82% …

Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes – facial recognition software company by …

Angry Birds creator Rovio has been catapulted into the middle of an ugly patent war started by a Texas-based patent licensing company, Lodsys.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor “micro-location.” Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, …

We’ve all heard of the dangers of privacy invasion on the internet, but what about an invasion of our personal space from inside the home, from those very loved ones you think you can trust? A recent study from Retrevo – a large consumer electronics and shopping website – claims those closest to you are far more dangerous to your privacy than most outside hackers are.

Nokia has been having a hard time of it recently. The firm’s floundering smartphone products have been almost completely eclipsed by efforts from Apple and Google, and now the once-king of the handset finds itself shedding marketshare at an alarming rate.

Google has saddened early adopter everywhere today with its decision to shut down Google Labs, its incubator for newly conceived, half-baked products, which sometimes evolved into tasty new offerings from …

Working in telecommunications is a bit of a headache with acronyms and jargon being tossed around within nearly every conversation. It’s likely that a person new to the industry will …

The World Bank has been in the news rather a lot recently, and not always for the most salubrious of reasons, but the global financial institution seems to want to clean up its image and make itself more transparent to citizens everywhere. How better to do this than with a mobile app? Or, in the World Bank’s case of overkill, six iPhone/iPad apps, with a promise of “more great mobile applications” to come.

Automotive Navigation Data | July 20, 2011 | Press Release Rotterdam, 20 July 2011 – Digital Map provider AND Automotive Navigation Data teams up with AvMap, world leader in Satellite …

BBC News | July 20, 2011 Rural broadband bills could fall after telecoms regulator Ofcom moved to cut the wholesale price that BT charges other internet providers. Read the full …

When you were a child how did you imagine supermarkets would be in the future? Maybe you thought it would no longer even be necessary to go into a physical …

Yesterday Apple held their quarterly earnings call to announce their revenues for the last three months and, somewhat unsurprisingly, they managed another quarter or massive growth, huge profits and all-round good times.