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After months of speculations and rumors, Apple has introduced us to its new tablet device. The iPad 3 is finally here.

Fans of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim have been waiting quite a while, and now it appears their patience may finally pay off. Developer Bethesda Game Studios has revealed an announcement about the action-adventure role-playing game will be coming soon.

Online travel agency Expedia on Friday accused Google of breaching EU rules with a formal complaint to EU antitrust regulators as it joined a dozen other firms that have taken their case to the European Commission in the last two years.

Credit card information is being reportedly picked clean from refurbished Xbox 360s, along with other personal information. Microsoft is investigating the claims.

Friday's surge may have been a reaction to RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, who said he's conducting a strategic review of the company, indicating a sale of some or all of its assets is possible.

The Finnish phone maker Nokia, in collaboration with the American mobile operator AT&T, is gearing up for the release of Nokia's flagship phone - Lumia 900 - in the U.S. market. The phone will hit AT&T stores on April 8, two weeks earlier than initially scheduled.

Members of the team that were formerly working on Microsoft's foldable tablet device, Microsoft Courier, have released apps for the new iPad. The apps are meant to be used in the iPad's landscape mode, giving users the largest available space for drawing, writing and performing other sketch-book functions.

Earlier this year, the codename for the next-gen Xbox was revealed as Durango, according to a developer summit in London. And now, Sony's next-generation PlayStation console (PlayStation 4 or PS4) has apparently been codenamed Orbis.

AT&T has revealed that the Nokia Lumia 900 is coming to the network from April 8, describing the launch of the phone as on par with the iPhone.

Nokia's flagship Lumia 900 is coming next month. The phone will run on the latest Windows Mango 7 OS. Another Android phone is also getting ready to give the toughest competition to the Nokia phone, Samsung Galaxy S2. It has just got the Ice Cream Sandwich update before possibly being phased out before Galaxy S3 launch.

While the U.S. oil and natural gas industries are reaping astronomical profits now, they could increase them even more if companies weren't so wasteful, the Natural Resources Defense Council said.

In an announcement this week, Microsoft said the next version of the Kinect for Windows will be available at the end of May, with a 1.5 version of the software that works with it. The new Kinect for Windows 1.5 will come with a few new features, such as Kinect Studio, which will allow developers to record, playback and debug users' clips.

Steam just released a beta version of a new patch for “The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim,” which is said to fix some of the bugs caused by a previous update. Called 1.5.26, the Bethesda’s solution to issues caused by the 1.5 upgrade is available for PCs.

The EU's antitrust chief said on Wednesday that he would decide only after April 8 whether to formally charge Google or drop an ongoing investigation and that he would not bow to pressure to push out a decision more quickly.

Nokia will start to sell a new range of smartphones using Microsoft software in China from April, seeking to claw back market share it has seen gobbled up by Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

Raspberry Pi's Linux-based Fedora operating system, which was developed primarily to encourage kids to code, looks potent enough to compete with Microsoft’s Windows 8 when it arrives. It is even powerful enough to handle everyday jobs which are done with word processing and spreadsheets.

Nokia said on Wednesday it would start to sell its new range of smartphones using Microsoft's Windows Phone software in China from April through China Telecom, the third-largest operator in the country.

With advancement in cloud gaming, a new gaming console from Microsoft is being speculated. But before Microsoft debuts its true next generation Xbox, a cheap Xbox, called Xbox Lite, is expected to come out first.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates called for carbon emissions to fall as close to zero as possible to protect the global environment.

HBO GO, HBO's online streaming service for customers, is now on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 in app form.

Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to break Apple and Google's stranglehold over the U.S. smartphone market. AT&T will start selling the Nokia Lumia 900, running on Microsoft's software, for as little as $99.99 with a 2-year contract, starting April 8.