BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins holds up the new BlackBerry 10 at a conference in Florida on Tuesday

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Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces the new iPad Mini

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Fancy an iPad but find it just too big and heavy? Apple has an alternative. Mind you, so does Google. And Amazon. Last night in San Jose, California, Apple's CEO Tim Cook, in supremely relaxed form, announced its latest tablet computer, the iPad mini. It's designed to look like a smaller version of the triumphant iPad. It is also designed to snatch sales away from Apple's rivals.

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HTC has suffered a sharp fall in its quarterly profits after the Taiwanese smartphones maker continued to lose ground to Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy device.

Samsung eyes a record on Galaxy surge

Booming sales of Galaxy smartphones put Samsung on course for another record quarter as the South Korean giant shrugged off its recent legal defeat to rival Apple.

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Google Inc CEO Larry Page and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been conducting behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between the companies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The new Nexus 7 - Google's first tablet - runs on the latest Android operating system

Will Google lose out after Apple victory?

Apple's court win saw rival phone maker Samsung ordered to pay $1bn, but the key battle is with the Android software maker

Broken Sword: The Serpent’s Curse put up for Kickstarter crowd-funding

Fans can start their adventure now by supporting development of the latest in the Broken Sword series.

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Shadowrun Online launches on European Kickstarter

Cliffhanger Productions looking to bring new take on Shadowrun to browsers and tablets.

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