Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

We've been pretty excited about seeing this bad boy since we first reported that Commodore USA had done a deal with Commodore Licensing to release a PC all-in-one, cased in an exact replica of the Commodore 64 which was originally released back in 1982.

This early date gives us hope that we could be seeing a February launch here in Europe - Japan has a date of 26 February touted for it, and it would be nice if we could get hold of the glasses-free 3D handheld on the same date.

Global sales of the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops have topped $1 billion (£642 million) in less than six weeks.

Microsoft is working on a downloadable update for its motion camera Kinect that would effectively quadruple its level of accuracy, a news report claims. Eurogamer reports that the platform holder hopes to make it so accurate that it will be able to detect finger movement and hand rotation.

Rovio, PopCap and Backflip games all secretly use “supercookies”, paper claims. Angry Birds developer Rovio has been named in an investigation into iPhone apps that allegedly transmit user data to third-party companies without consent.

Florida-based studio Trendy Entertainment has ported its Dungeon Defenders game – which was built with UE3 – to Android devices just days after its iOS release. The game is “the first to bring the Unreal Engine technology, which powers the best-selling Infinity Blade, to the Android platform”, according to the Florida studio.

There are tens of thousands of kilometres of submarine cables meshed across the planet, serving more than 95 per cent of the world's internet and telephone traffic. It is mainly these cables that connect us to data and people. A connection to the internet may start as wireless but become a wired signal once it reaches a base station, continuing on a submarine cable.

Following the first update to Windows Phone 7 in January 2011 at CES, which will introduce copy and paste functionality, Microsoft is planning to unveil a second one the following month at the Mobile World Congress. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hold a keynote at the event, marking one year after the company first unveiled the rebirth of its mobile operating system.

The company's lead Android developer says Google is activating more than 300,000 phone each day, a figure that doesn't include tablet activations.