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British rapper Tinie Tempah led the field on Thursday at the BRIT awards with four nominations, just ahead of singer-songwriter Plan B, folk rock act Mumford & Sons and London's The XX, who each had three nods.

New app/device combo from PLX Devices can control a user's mind.

Apple's skipping the CES party but that does not stop it from creating waves, while competitors are launching tablets and phones, Apple has softly opened its much awaited Mac App Store.

Google and Apple are slugging it out in the publishing domain as they up their ante to woo publishers, who are still emerging from the recessionary shock and are looking for a viable digital content related business model.

S&P Equity Research predicts big developments for the Internet segment in 2011, including continuing challenges for Google, changes at Yahoo, and a cloud offering from Apple.

Pew Internet determined 65 percent of internet users have paid to download or access some kind of online content.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen added details to the patent infringement lawsuit filed against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, AOL, Yahoo!, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples in August.

Apple is expected to release three versions of iPad 2, supporting either or a combination of Wi-Fi, UMTS and CDMA, for 2011 with mass production to start as early as the latter half of January.

Sony announced its monthly subscription based streaming music service, Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, has made its official debut in the United Kingdom.

Buying apps for Android devices just got easier, as now app purchases on Android Market can be charged on AT&T Direct Carrier Billing.

The next-generation iPad, or iPad 2, is said to have a flat back, smaller bezel and a wide-range speaker.

In what appears to be Sony's success in its efforts to link its hardware with online content-delivery services, the Japanese electronics behemoth said on Wednesday it has launched an online streaming-music service, the Wall Street journal reported.

Apple said it expects sales of its new Apple TV to top one million units later this week.

Apple released an application for Macs under the moniker iAd Producer that enables users to create multimedia rich iAds for iOS devices.

Apple's censorship sword falls on Wikileaks app as it is purged from iTunes App Store.

Apple has moved a step forward towards launching its Mac App Store as it announced that its Mac OS X Download site will stop delivering apps from Jan. 6.

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A real-time translating app that magically turns billboard signs and menus, otherwise incomprehensible in a foreign land, into text that you can understand is now available for iPhones.

Apple said its Mac App Store will open for business on Thursday, January 6 and will be available in 90 countries at launch.

Apple has launched its first iAd for iPad, the upcoming sci-fi Disney flick Tron Legacy, after launching the iAd feature in April.

As the year is coming to an end YouTube is also ready with the list of most viewed videos that people in US and around the world were searching and watching for in 2010, said YouTube blog post.