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Apple stores around the country closed their doors on Wednesday to allow employees to watch a live webcast of the employee-only service for Steve Jobs that took place at the company's Cupertino headquarters. Hundreds of employees converged on the campus in Northern California Wednesday morning, crowding into the outdoor amphitheater where the likes of former Vice President Al Gore, Coldplay, and Norah Jones paid tribute to Jobs.

Apple spends at least $188 in component costs to make each of iPhone 4S, according to consultancy and research firm IHS iSuppli.

Here comes Siri on your TV screen. Yes, the first commercial for the iPhone 4S is out now, but Apple is focusing primarily on the virtual personal assistant, devoting the entire 30-second TV ad to it.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S is set to face stiff competition from the world's thinnest smartphone, Motorola Droid RAZR, and the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Here are eight reasons as to why Apple’s iPhone 4S is enough to see away any kind of threats from all the Android-based smartphones.

Given the likelihood one of the biggest rivals of the iPhone 4S will be the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it will be interesting to have a comparison of the features of the two competitors.

Google announced the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, its new operating system set to run on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, on Wednesday to compete against Apple's iOS 5 operating system and iPhone 4S.

The Motorola Droid Bionic will get upgraded with Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Motorola confirmed via Facebook on Wednesday.

Walter Isaacson, who is writing the Steve Jobs biography, says that the tech genius initially refused a potentially life-saving surgery. He conceded 9 months later, but by then it was too late.

Steve Jobs called Tim Cook to discuss Apple's next product the day before his death, according to Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, who was meeting with Cook at the time.

Apple's iPhone 4S is available on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks, and will soon be coming to the regional carrier C Spire for the first time.

Apple Inc. received overwhelming positive responses for iPhone 4S but there are some technical defects the users have experienced recently.

Apple has sold over 4 million units of the new smartphone iPhone 4S through different retailers and carriers since last Friday. Although iPhone 4S looks identical to its predecessor -iPhone 4 - it has significant upgrades in both hardware and software, including an A5 chip, an 8-megapixel camera, Siri Voice assistant and iOS 5, which boast of over 200 new features. iPhone 4S: How Does Apple's Latest Smartphone Compare Against Motorola Droid Bionic and Samsung Galaxy S II

We compare the iPhone 4S to Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and what it means for mobile gaming.

Nokia and Microsoft will unveil their new Windows Phones at the Nokia World Event on Oct. 26. Nokia will be showing off more than one phone.

We compare Google's latest mobile OS offering against Apple's newly released iOS 5.

With the new features and Android 4.0 announced on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, should Apple be worried?

Apple Siri, a groundbreaking application which set the world by storm since the very first day of the launch of iPhone 4S, is now being highly criticized for its language biasness and security flaws.

Apple Inc. received an overwhelming response from all around the world for iPhone 4S. iPhone 4S is expected to face competition from Android devices like Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Droid RAZR, HTC EVO Design 4G, Motorola Atrix 2, and Samsung Captivate Glide.

Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 5 has attracted a lot of buyers for iPhone 4S with its store of more than 200 new apps, which includes notification, multitasking, iCloud, widgets, web browsing and camera boost.

Samsung Electronics now wants to file a motion to ban Apple's iPhone 4S in Korea. Earlier, Samsung had filed suits against Apple in Japan, Australia, France and Italy to stop sales of the iPhone 4S.

US stocks fell and the euro edged lower on Wednesday as a consequence of fading optimism about European leaders to make considerable advancement to resolve the euro zone debt crisis at their summit meeting this weekend.

Wednesday, Oct. 19, marks Apple's company-wide memorial service for deceased co-founder Steve Jobs.

Siri on iPhone 4S could come to other Apple devices without an iOS 5 jailbreak thanks to Jackoplane, who announced on Wednesday that he has successfully ported Siri to other devices running iOS 5.

On Tuesday night's The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert released his personal assistant Siri on his iPhone 4S; Much to his dismay, Siri could not help him with his requests.

Last week we got a report that late Apple co-founder and long-time CEO was at work on the iPhone 5 project until his death as his last big innovation. Now comes a report that Jobs was working on the company's next project, which may have been the iPhone 5, until the day before he died.

Apple shares lost 5.6 percent of their value Wednesday after narrowly missing analyst estimates for fourth quarter earnings.

Apple Inc closed its stores across the United States on Wednesday for several hours to commemorate co-founder Steve Jobs, who died two weeks ago.

Now that Apple has launched its iPhone 4S to record sales, the focus is shifting toward the company's next release -- the iPad 3.