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Apple's newly released iPhone 4S, labeled to be a flop phone by many when it came out last week, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs.

Analysts have predicted that between three and four million iPhone 4S units will be sold during this weekend. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world have taken their position in long lines in front of Apple Stores sand other carrier/retailer stores where the device is being sold.

History repeats itself. Urban campers have already set up their folding chairs and are happily waiting for Apple stores and retail outlets to open at 8 am Friday, with a gleaming new stock of iPhone 4S. The iPhone 4S, has already broken the pre-order record of 600,000 held by the iPhone 4, with the first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S the highest for any new product that Apple has ever launched.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S sales in stores began in Japan, Australia, France, UK, Germany, Canada and the U.S. on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime.

iPhone 4S launch is shaping up as the mother of all launches. Apple Stores worldwide have come alive in a celebratory mood, shaking off the gloom that Steve Jobs' death created , gingerly welcoming the last iPhone that had the dead icon's signature on.

Apple Inc's new iPhone went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with fans snapping up the final gadget unveiled during Steve Jobs' lifetime, many buying the phone as a tribute to the former Apple boss.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson will focus entirely on the booming smartphone market, going head to head with rivals like Apple and underlining the importance of a tie-up with Sony amid reports the electronics giant is preparing a buyout.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S, which was unveiled on Oct. 4, has already become a huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe Friday.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S will be hitting the stores Friday, but iPhone 5 remained a mystery after all. Analysts are anticipating Apple to release a 4G LTE iPhone 5 in 2012.

After the pre-orders record breaking sales queues are formed outside many Apple stores this week with customers keen to get hold of the new iPhone 4S.

Even if you have successfully placed a pre-order at Sam's Club for the Apple's newest iPhone 4S, there is only a slim possibility that you might actually get one on Friday. According to a report in Geek.com, Sam's Clubs nationwide haven't received iPhone 4S shipments expected for Friday's launch. Sam's Club representative confirmed the news that they were notified by Apple that initial iPhone 4S shipments would not be arriving as expected.

A four-day service outage has cast a shadow over BlackBerry's reputation in India, one of the smartphone maker's few growing markets, where the frustration of hundreds of thousands of users could mean a chance for its rivals to gain ground.

The pre-orders for iPhone 4S are sold out for Apple and all the carriers, which is meaning that there will be a few weeks of delay before an order placed online will be delivered to the customer leaving behind the only option of going to the local store to get it.

Apple's new iPhone operating system can do many magical things, but ensuring an easy upgrade process is apparently not one of them.

The new operating system, iOS 5, for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, has been released by Apple and comes with over 200 new features, with the extremely useful among them being the iMessage.

A U.S. judge said that Samsung Electronic's Galaxy tablets infringe Apple Inc's iPad patents, but added that Apple has a problem establishing the validity of its patents in the latest courtroom face-off between the technology giants.

Samsung Electronics said on Friday that it planned to unveil a new smartphone based on Google's latest version of the Android operating system at an event in Hong Kong on October 19.

The new iPhone 4S may have disappointed reviewers who expected a newer machine, but the device has already become huge success among customers, even before it went on sale in stores across the globe on Friday, with many of them buying it as a tribute to Steve Jobs

Apple iPhone 4S is being sold in stores on Friday. iPhone users have been anticipating the arrival of the iPhone 4S, so much so that pre-orders for the new smartphone sold out ahead of the store launch, according to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's Web sites.

Apple Inc rolled out its new iCloud service and latest mobile software to a chorus of user complaints this week, after glitches led to email access problems and long delays in installation.

A U.S. judge said Samsung Electronic's Galaxy tablets infringe Apple Inc's iPad patents, but also that Apple has a problem establishing the validity of its patents.

Reports that Sony could take control of Sony Ericsson are likely to overshadow the handset maker's third-quarter results on Friday, when it is expected to show that a beefed-up smartphone line helped it to make a small profit.

Spotify, the European music streaming service backed by digital entrepreneur Sean Parker, has more than 250,000 paying users in the United States since it opened up shop in July, according to three people familiar with its data.

Hyped up Apple customers expected an iPhone 5; they got a 4S. Next they thought they would get 200 new features with the iOS 5 software, instead they got an error message. Finally, the long-awaited iCloud rose up over all gadgets, with Apple promising cable free synchronization, only to strike users with this note: iCloud back-up failed

Reports say the newest addition to the iPhone family, Apple's iPhone 4S, has sold out for pre-order at all three U.S. carriers -- Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.

Taiwan's Foxconn confirmed it will start producing iPads in Brazil in December but is still negotiating a multibillion-dollar expansion plan in the country, senior company and government officials said on Thursday.

Dear Tim Cook, Apple CEO: Now that you are essentially betting Apple on iOS 5 and a whole family of iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs that run it, you've just been handed a great case study by your Canadian rival, Research in Motion. For three days, BlackBerry customers worldwide couldn't access e-mails. This, the company said, was due to a server problem in England.

Spotify, the European music streaming service backed by digital entrepreneur Sean Parker, has more than 250,000 paying users in the United States since it opened up shop in July, according to three people familiar with its data.

Research In Motion has fixed the root cause of a global disruption of BlackBerry services and is still working to clear a backlog of delayed messages, its co-CEOs said on Thursday, hoping to control the damage to RIM four days after the outage began.