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Total for UK beyond 19 million

A global computer company that axed around 700 jobs from a factory in Scotland last year has announced it is creating 700 new positions at the same site.

Buoyant times as consumers and businesses upgrade

Online retailer Amazon, better known for selling books and electrical goods, has started offering food and drink in the UK for the first time.

Apple claims it sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in its first three days, outstripping analysts' forecasts and setting a record for a new version of the device.

ITV.com's dedicated World Cup website, ITV Live, left football fans unable to watch the opening game of the tournament online following a technical error.

Google has told US Congress that it broke no law in collecting data from unsecured private Wi-Fi networks as the company recorded images for its Street View service in over 30 countries.

Carphone Warehouse announces pre-registration

Apple claims that iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on 3 April.

but broadband still a priority.

The UK government has imposed an immediate freeze on all new IT spending above £1m, and reviews of the biggest IT projects are being set up to see which can be stopped.

YouTube is marking its fifth anniversary by announcing the service has exceeded two billion daily views, demonstrating rapid growth in popularity since reaching the one billion-mark late in 2009.

Nokia is suing Apple for five alleged patent infringements related to mobile speech and data transmission, location data integration and antenna technologies used in the iPhone and iPad 3G.

Worst share since 1999

Nurses in the UK are spending about 26 days a year searching for missing equipment and paper-based records, wasting £1bn in wage costs.

Apple has sold 8.75 million iPhones in the March quarter, a 131 per cent year on year increase, with Mac sales also going through the roof in the company's most profitable non-holiday quarter of all time.

Internet firm Google has reported better-than-expected revenues of $6.77bn for the first three months of 2010, delivering earnings of $6.76 a share compared with forecasts of $6.60.

With providers deciding it would be too expensive to provide Lyddington with a high-speed broadband network, the village's residents decided to build their own.

Users can now download from Microsoft the final code for Windows XP Mode software, which enables Windows 7 PCs run XP in a compatibility mode.

Government plans to fund high-speed broadband networks were in disarray after ministers admitted there was not enough time to debate the proposed 50p per month tax on fixed-wire phones.

450,000 iPads have been sold, 600,000 iBooks downloaded already.

The Large Hadron Collider has seen collisions for the first time, ushering in a new era for particle physics.

Police are planning to collaborate with industry by opening police computer forensics training to IT professionals.

The Koobface worm, which targets social networking sites, can double the number of command and control (C&C) servers in 48 hours, says security firm Kaspersky Lab.

Nearly 50% of IT directors plan to hire staff in 2010 after two years of staffing cuts across the sector.

According to Sky HD survey.

Google is to donate $2m to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs and maintains Wikipedia and other free, multilingual content for wiki-based projects.

Microsoft's monthly security updates for February have left Windows XP users unable to restart their computers.

Microsoft has revealed its upgrade plans from Office 2007 to Office 2010 in a blog post to resellers.

Microsoft plans to release 13 security updates on 9 February, equalling the record set in October 2009 for the largest number to be issued on a single Patch Tuesday.