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Statistics registered that gamers from the United Kingdom spent not less than a record £1.52 billion on titles this year. This is a 25 percent increase in comparison with the last year and still more than a week to count till 2008.

Officials from the American vendor of computers, components, software, and IT services, Sun Microsystems, have stated that the company started a new program aimed towards independent software developers. The winner of the program will receive a prize of $1 million. Companies willing to take part in the program will have to contribute to the open source software projects launched by the company.

The annual meeting with financial analysts, held by AMD, turned into a wave of apologies from the company's representatives to experts from Wall Street. AMG said sorry for the mistakes that occurred this year. The company stated that in 2008 it would get in full shape by launching its renewed version of Barcelona quad-core line, the functionality of which is seriously crippled due to its design flaw.

A Norwegian company that develops Web browsers, being supported by an industry coalition, has filed a complaint against the software giant to the European Commission. It is worth mentioning that this is the first complaint after earlier this year Microsoft lost a case regarding the landmark antitrust.

Statistics for the last year show that Chinese users of mobile phones sent about 429 billion text messages. At the same time India registered an enormous growth of mobile service subscribers. Both countries joined the group of the two fastest growing countries if the field, Brazil and Russia.

The environmental campaign group states that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, companies producing game consoles did not reduce the amount of toxic elements used to manufacture their products.

In 2005 all hospitals in the United States were able to charge $873 billion, which represents an increase of 90 percent in comparison with 1997. Such data was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research.

In average the yearly increase in the national hospital bill was around 4.5%. If this rate is maintained, researchers presume that in 2008 the bill may reach a huge sum of $1 trillion.

One of the most famous tennis players in the world and the number one player in the world rankings, Roger Federer, being the official UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, will play his major role in World AIDS Day public service announcement, the goal of which is to increase the awareness about HIV transmission from mother to child.

The amount of mistakes the British government created in order to protect personal information critically increased when Michael Wills, the data protection minister, revealed that he had been not informed about the disappearance of the disks with information that included personal data of 25 million people.