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During my work experience placement on the Technology and Media desk of The Guardian, I wrote and co-authored several pieces each day for their online portal.

• Sinking HMS Symbian heading for Android iceberg – Gartner report suggests that ‘Symbian foundation is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’.

• Smartphones revived the radio star – Survey finds internet listening is on the up thanks to mobile devices

During my work experience placement on the Technology and Media desk of The Guardian, I wrote and co-authored several pieces each day for their online portal.

• Google Me, Facebook you? – Rumours abound about imminent launch of new Google social network to rival Facebook.

• eBay sued for $3.8bn for patent infringement – PayPal systems use information shared in confidence, claims XPRT Ventures

• The Technology newsbucket: PRs iPhone recall call, iPlayer on Android, keep or kill XP SP2 and more – Plus how Steve Ballmer foresaw 2010 in 2000, OrgCON coming up, Twitter’s name search and more replacements – but only to a limited number of owners. Will others sue?

During my work experience placement on the Technology and Media desk of The Guardian, I wrote and co-authored several pieces each day for their online portal.

• BMW plugs into Apple’s new in-car iPod feature – BMW is the first car manufacturer to announce support for the little-heralded iPod Out feature from the iOS 4.

• Ballmer admits mobile failures but promises ‘devices to be proud of’ – Microsoft ‘missed a generation’ on the mobile side, but chief executive Steve Ballmer insists that the company’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 will ‘give you a set of Windows-based devices which people will be proud to carry’

• The Technology newsbucket: periodic swearing, Facebook locates, iTunes costs and more – Plus why News Corp should sell MySpace, the programmers who are really in demand, talking to a Univac, Spotify on Linux and more

During my work experience placement on the Technology and Media desk of The Guardian, I wrote and co-authored several pieces each day for their online portal.

• Google offers drag-and-drop App Inventor to goose Android app market – Aiming to catch Apple’s lucrative App Store, Google has released a web-based system which it says needs “NO programming knowledge” to write your own app..

• And it’s goodbye from them: Facebook gifts, that is – It’s all about Facebook Credits now (from which Facebook nets a tidy 30%) as the social media site aims to widen its reach even further

• Microsoft beefs up Windows 7 slates – Microsoft has announced that it is ‘hardcore’ about Windows 7-based slate machines

• Apple finally admits problems with Time Capsule and offers replacement – Nine months after a Guardian investigation pointed to a limited lifespan for the wireless backup, the company has offered free replacements – but only to a limited number of owners. Will others sue?