Today’s Hot Topic: Microsoft have been running a ballot for users to choose which alternative browsers they should offer.

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• BBC Technology News: Apple sues HTC over phone patents
• CNN Tech: App creators: From superstars to serfs
• Sky News: Calls For Sony To Be Sued After PS3 Crash
• Telegraph: Google buys Picnik.com
• Financial Times: SAP vows return to double-digit sales growth
• Guardian: ‘Free iPad’ scam spreading on Facebook and Twitter
• The Wall Street Journal: Game Makers Battle China’s Pirates
• Times Online: Alternative offered to Internet Explorer
• BusinessWeek: Combating the Counterfeit Tech Epidemic
• Reuters: Activision forms new "Call of Duty" unit

 

• Computing: Government urged to "come clean" on NPfIT negotiations
• Computer Weekly: App Store boosts mobile cloud in the enterprise
• The Register: Asus goes small on aluminium, big on Bamboo
• IT Pro: UK spearheads Europe-wide IT sales recovery
• Silicon.com: Top five tips for an outsourcing deal made in heaven
• CNET News: Man swallows flash drive, charged with obstruction
• Huffington Post: White House Outlines Secret Cybersecurity Plan
• Apple Insider: Apple’s iTunes Replay cloud service reappears in movie studio talks
• PC World: Opera Updates Web Browser to Version 10.5

 

• Wired: Ferrari Goes Green – Literally – With a Hybrid
• Engadget: Sony files for ‘PlayStation Arc’ trademark in Japan — all but a done deal?
• The Gadget Show: Asus announces DR-900 3G eBook reader
• New Scientist: Pest control that’s too hot for bugs to handle

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