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Apple's purchase of Anobit, an Israeli maker of Flash chips, likely means the iPhone 5 will greatly improve its memory storage capabilities.

Apple introduced its various music services to Brazil and Latin America on Tuesday, including the iTunes Store, iCloud and iTunes Match services.

A simple new online music service will launch across Europe and North America this week aimed at the millions who like music but struggle with the technology to find and listen to it.

Oscar winner George Clooney -- a current awards season favorite with The Descendants -- has added another project to his packed upcoming movie slate: Clooney and Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov will produce a movie about the Smothers Brothers and their groundbreaking TV series.

The Artist and The Harry Potter series will also receive special awards.

Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles in the third MiB installment.

Romantic comedy New Year's Eve topped the domestic movie box office during the weekend but Hollywood had little to celebrate as North American ticket sales slumped to their lowest level in three years.

Let's face it, until Verizon makes an official announcement, there is no real way of knowing when the Galaxy Nexus will arrive in the United States. There has already been four rumored release dates, and all have been a no-show.

Good news to smartphones and tablet users who crave for gaming without compromising on splendid graphics - OnLive, a Silicon Valley-based gaming service, has announced the launch of an application (app) which enables users of mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad and Android-based smartphones and tablets, including Amazon's Kindle Fire, to enjoy console-class gaming.

It sealed Brooke Shields' status as a teen star (and, trivia, made her the first-ever recipient of the Worst Actress Razzie), and now Lifetime is going to remake the 1980 drama The Blue Lagoon.

Panasonic Corp, which has warned it will post a $5.5 billion annual loss, will launch a smartphone in Europe next year, the latest Japanese maker to tiptoe late into a fiercely competitive market dominated by Samsung and Apple.

Asian stocks plunged Friday, following overnight declines on Wall Street, after the European Central Bank gave no indication of more government bond buying.

Relativity Chief Operating Officer Brian Edwards is the latest top executive to leave the fledgling studio headed by Ryan Kavanaugh, a company spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap.

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top TV brand, said on Thursday its television sales hit a record 5.7 million units in November, helped by strong U.S. sales during the long Thanksgiving weekend.

THQ Inc cut its fiscal third-quarter sales forecast by 25 percent as the game maker said one of its products was not selling as well as expected, and its shares fell in after-hours trading.

A new, advanced component is expected to heat up the smartphone market and reduce the gap between digital camera and smartphone camera.Soon, consumers will not need to carry a digital camera separately for taking high-quality pictures, thanks to Sharp, which has unveiled the world's thinnest CMOS camera module with optical image stabilization for smartphones.

The BCS bowl game schedule has been released and led to what will likely be weeks of arguments about the national championship game rematch and other apparent mishaps.

The Galaxy Nexus may in-part be a Google phone, but Verizon has asked the giant not to include its highly anticipated Google Wallet feature in its latest product.

The Annie Awards, which have been wracked by controversy in recent years, attempted to right the ship on Monday with a slate of nominations that included, well, everybody.

The furor over the New Yorker's decision to run a review of David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo more than a week before the embargo date heated up on Monday, as the review hit newsstands and an email exchange between critic David Denby and producer Scott Rudin spread around the web.

The newest Twilight vampire movie ruled the domestic box office for a third time with $16.9 million in ticket sales over one of the slowest movie-going weekends of the year, studio estimates released on Sunday showed.

Sony Pictures is steaming over the New Yorker's plan to review David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on Monday. That will be eight days in advance of the December 13 embargo that the studio imposed on all critics and journalists who attended early screenings of the long-awaited film.

While many industry observers thought Apple would unveil two new iPhones at the end of 2011, in the end it was just one -- the iPhone 4S. But after record-setting sales, Apple is apparently gearing up to release what many have called Steve Jobs' last big project, the iPhone 5. Fresh reports suggest Apple will release the iPhone 5 sometime in March 2012.

The Tanglish (Tamil + English) song, Why this Kolaveri Di, has crossed 10 million hits since its release, on Nov. 16, on YouTube, making it something of a blockbuster. Its popularity has, in turn, made it a massive revenue generator, for Techzone, a mobile value added service providing company.

For the second time in a week, another report has emerged of an iPhone spontaneously combusting. Brazilian Ayla Mota says he woke up to discover his phone smoking and sparking less than a foot from his face.

What happens to the wire, chip and sensor makers working for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) when the company gives them the boot? The answer to that question might be found in the dismal quarterly results released Tuesday by OmniVision Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:OVTI), a company that makes imaging sensors used in smartphone, tablet and notebook cameras.

Upon closer inspection of the iPhone that spontaneously combusted on an Australian flight, the logo signifies that the back panel was not made by Apple. Was the damaged phone a custom job?

An Australian airliner said a passenger's iPhone 4 started glowing red and smoking before a flight attendant doused the phone with a fire extinguisher.

Apple's newest update to its mobile platform, iOS 5.1 beta, includes code that references two new iPad devices and one new iPhone device.