Microsoft celebrated the official end of the road for its long-running Internet Explorer IE 6 browser in the US, as its usage dropped below 1%. FULL STORY >

HP today announced a number of new products ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. FULL STORY >

Microsoft announced this week that the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January will be its last. FULL STORY >

This week in the Gaming News Round-up we learn that the highly anticipated The Last Guardian game is still in development, whilst the first round of Modern Warfare 3 DLC is announced. FULL STORY >

Sony Ericsson is updating many of its Xperia smartphones to Android Ice Cream Sandwich early in the new year. FULL STORY >

AMD has launched its AMD Radeon HD 7970, which it asserted is the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card. FULL STORY >

App sales on Apple's App Store are enjoying better sales than Google's Android Market, according to a new report. FULL STORY >

Nuance Communications is snapping up Vlingo in an effort to deliver intelligent voice interfaces that combine voice, language understanding and semantic processing to more devices. FULL STORY >

YouTube provides the list of most watched videos during 2011, locally and internationally. FULL STORY >

The US International Trade Commission finds that Motorola Mobility hasn't violated six of the seven Microsoft patents, but did infringe upon one. FULL STORY >

Sonys newest portable console, the PS Vita, has apparently had a bit of a bumpy launch this week. FULL STORY >

The IXUS 1100 HS has an appeal of its own. FULL STORY >

Apple scores a win in its ITC patent case against HTC, with some HTC smartphones being banned in the US, however HTC will be addressing the issues before the ban takes effect in 2012. FULL STORY >

LG introduces the new Magic Remote for its CINEMA 3D Smart TV sets, bringing features including voice-recognition and gesture-based control to the remote control. FULL STORY >

Korean tech giant Samsung will be upgrading some of the smartphones and tablets in its Galaxy range to the latest version of Android (4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich) early in the new year. FULL STORY >