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We are spending more and more of our lives online, with the online shopping market booming at the moment.

This is the year when Near Field Communication, or NFC, is going to make its mark on the mobile world and change how we use our smartphones forever.

Gamers out there, the countdown has officially begun. Gamescom 2012, the gaming industry trade show held in Germany each year, is now just over a month away.

As a tech writer, I feel like I’m constantly covering various patent disputes between the big players from the world of technology.

The big tech events are coming thick and fast at the moment. After an Eastertime lull to recover from the likes of CES and MWC, the tech calendar is getting exciting once again.

After a calm and collected start, 2012 is about to blow up for Nintendo. The Japanese gaming giant may have started slowly, but it’s more than making up for it now.

With the rise of MP3 players such as the iPod, it can’t be long before CDs will go the same way as vinyl, the original Walkman and MiniDisc players.

Walking into the Gadget Show Live is a little overwhelming, it has to be said. In case you’ve never been before, the NEC is huge. Really huge.

Like many tech journalists today, I’m on my way to the Gadget Show Live – the UK’s leading consumer technology event.

Last month, Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the famous Blackberry, announced its most recent quarterly earnings. They weren’t great: the company clocked a $125m (£78m) loss. But investors and press were keen to hear new CEO Thorsten Heins on his plans to minimise the damage next quarter. With new BLackBerry 10 phones not expected until the end of the year, there’s no glimmer of hope on the horizon yet. Those assurances weren’t enough.