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Mainland China and 21 other countries will finally launch sales for Apple's most advanced smartphone, the iPhone 4S, on Friday, Jan. 13. The phone will be available in black and white and will sell at the same prices as in the U.S.

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The news about Sony's surprising decision to drop the price of its Tablet S by $100 soon after the launch has fueled rumors surrounding the price tag of Apple's next generation iPad.

An unauthorized action figure of late Apple founder Steve Jobs has hit the Internet, courtesy of Chinese company In Icons. The miniature replica of the tech legend will be available in February unless Apple pulls the plug, but tech geeks are more excited about how unbelievably realistic the Jobs doll is. Check out photos of the action figure here.

The tech giant Apple will reportedly hold an event that's important but not large-scale in the Big Apple (New York) at the end of January.

Ever since it has been reported that Apple will hold an important media event in New York City later this month, tech geeks have been wondering what the company is going to announce at the event.

A recent rumor has surfaced on the Internet that states Apple's iTV is on track to be released by the end of 2012. Apparently Samsung has begun making chips and Sharp the displays.

Apple iPhone 5 rumors have been continuously circulating on the Internet, with the most recent one, from Barclays Capital, stating the iPhone is Apple's largest and most profitable product line.

So far Apple has declined to comment as per the report. But with lack of hard facts and a brand new year kicking off, the tech giant may have anything up its sleeve. However confirmations on long-running speculations will have to wait until Apple finally breaks its wall of silence.

Apple, BlackBerry, Amazon, Nook and Android all have their own application stores for their mobile devices, but one man in San Francisco plans to open an app store for robotics software.

Apple's $99 set-top box, the Apple TV, has been coaxed into running full screen iOS apps by an enterprising hacker named Steve Troughton-Smith.

Take a look at the specifications of LG Nitro HD and Apple iPhone 4S:

Apple Inc. has more than $81 billion of cash on its books with about one-third held in the U.S. This is because of its continuing success of products like iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac. So what will Apple do with all the cash hoard?

Barclays Capital believes Apple Inc. may launch two iPads in 2012 - one with better cameras, higher resolution display, an A5 processor and Siri in March and another, coming later in the year, perhaps incorporating a faster processor and 4G LTE.

The developers of the Apple TV MobileX project have just released a new, longer, more in-depth video explaining a jailbroken Apple TV running iOS apps running at 720p resolution.

Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief who holds more then 400 patents, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 85, an iPod user.

T-Mobile missed out on the iPhone, but they do have the HTC Amaze 4G, and it promises to take the Android vs Apple fight to another level. That's because it is one loaded smartphone, and the $200 on contract price backs that up nicely.

As 2011 counts down to its last few hours, there will be a number of people working on Apple's forthcoming mobile operating system - the company themselves, the product users and, obviously, iOS hackers.

Sorry, Apple fans: Numerous inside sources report that the iPad 3 will not have a January launch. To tide you over until its eventual release, however, here's everything we know (and everything that's been disproved) about the tablet computer's specs, upgrades, release date and price range from the Apple rumor grapevine.

An untethered jailbreak for Apple devices powered by the A4 processor has been released. Meanwhile, users of Apple devices running on the A5 processor are still waiting for their jailbreak. However, the release of a break for A4 devices doesn't mean the hackers' jobs are over.

The moment the tech world has been waiting for may only be weeks away. Apple's iPad 3 will supposedly be revealed during the Macworld/iWorld Expo in January.

The report from Taiwanese publication DigiTimes that claimed tech giants Apple Inc. would unveil two iPad models at the Macworld conference in January has been met with a storm of skeptical replies.

Steve Jobs famously left Apple for nearly a decade in the 90s, but when he returned, he not only helped revive the company he founded, he also donated a trove of Apple documents and photos to Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives. In 1997, Stanford took charge of what was to become an Apple museum, and turned two truckloads of books, software, videotapes and more into Stanford's Apple Collection.

Apple's iPad 3 will be unveiled at iWorld, scheduled for Jan. 26, 2012, according to sources at supply chain partners, the online newspaper reported.

During Christmas season, a well-crafted phishing scam has targeted Apple users, fooling them into give their Apple IDs and billing information, Internet security firm Intego (http://blog.intego.com/beware-of-apple-billing-information-phishing-e-mails/) reported in its blog.

BMO Capital Markets has raised its profit estimates of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) saying the Cupertino, California-based technology giant would benefit from material upgrades of Sprint customers.

The year 2011 was one in which smartphones and tablets achieved a status of necessity, instead of being style statement which they used to be in the past, thanks to Apple and Google.

The markets rewarded Apple and Google Tuesday after reports that activations of new iOS and Android devices surged over the weekend that included Christmas.

Italy's antitrust body has fined units of U.S. technology group Apple Inc a total of 900,000 euros for failing to adequately inform customers about their rights to product guarantees and assistance.