Surojit Chatterjee

Apple's next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, is set for launch in September according to the latest rumors and will boast of beefy specs - but does it have enough firepower to stave off the challenge from the top ten 'super' smartphones that run on Google Android?

Good news for Apple fans - according to a Nielsen survey of mobile customers in the U.S., Apple's iPhone has seen a sharp spurt in growth despite rival Android platform still being the most popular choice among smartphone users.

MSNBC's senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended early on Thursday morning after he called U.S. President Barack Obama kind of a d*** on the network's Morning Joe show but did MSNBC do the right thing in suspending Haplerin indefinitely?

If you're one of those who are keenly waiting to get your hands on the next generation iPhone (dubbed iPhone 5) in September, there's some bad news - according to a BMO Capital Markets analyst, Apple won't be releasing iPhone 5 in September but you can expect the bomb to drop in 2012.

The Apple iPhone 5 buzz is getting louder with each passing day and the latest suggestion is that Apple will offer iPhone 3GS for free with a 2-year contract when it launches iPhone 5 later this year.

Nobody knows what hardware or software upgrades iPhone 5 will feature and what it will look like but it hasn't stopped designers Michal Bonikowski or Antoine Brieux to brainstorm and come up with cutting-edge designs for iPhone 5.

Embattled social networking site MySpace has been sold by its owner News Corp. to digital media company Specific Media for a rumored $35 million, a deal that clinches the position of Facebook as the lord, king and master of social networking world.

Apple iPhone has been ruling the smartphone jungle for quite some time and the launch of the next generation iPhone (dubbed iPhone 5) is expected to consolidate its position but could a slew of new Android smartphones set for launch later this year upset its dominance?

If you think the unlocked iPhone is too pricey, you're in luck - technology giant Apple is reportedly mulling a release of a mid-range iPhone sometime in September that won't tie you down to any contract.

Researchers at a Japanese university have invented a minuscule, self-propelled, remote-controlled endoscope that can capture images of a human's stomach and colon.

An asteroid measuring about 16 feet to 35 feet or the size of a house, will fly by Earth at a handshaking distance on Monday and a lucky few people will be able to see the celestial wonder with their naked eye.

An asteroid, the size of a house, will come dangerously close to the Earth's atmosphere but will zoom by harmlessly on Monday, astronomers said.

Have you always dreamed of playing the guitar like Eric Clapton or Slash but didn't have the talent for it? Well, fret no more because scientists at Tokyo University have teamed up with Sony to invent an electric finger stimulator called PossessedHand that will make your fingers move without requiring any input from your brain.

Hackers collective LulzSec, after terrorizing the Internet community and giving top companies and government agencies sleepless nights, has finally called it quits even as rival hack group TeaMp0isoN has reared its head.

Apple's next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, which is expected to feature a radical new design, and boast of major hardware and software changes, could rule the smartphone jungle but it faces a powerful adversary in Google Nexus 4G.

Naki'o, a pup that lost all four of its paws in freezing water, is living a normal life, thanks to four fitted prosthetic legs.

The love-hate relationship between Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc., whose Flash technology was banned from use on Apple products so far, took a new direction, Monday, with Adobe announcing that the latest versions of its Flash Builder and Flex support building apps for not only Android devices and BlackBerry Playbook but also for the iPhone and iPad.

Apple, well-known for creating proprietary software, is probably running out of ideas these days as people have pointed out that many features in the new version of its mobile operating system - iOS 5 - launched earlier this month at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011 were borrowed from other mobile OS such as Android, BlackBerry and even Windows Phone 7.

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has taken a giant plunge into the fast growing tablet market by taking the wraps off its 7-inch Android Honeycomb powered tablet called MediaPad. But can it beat the iPad?

Norwegian scientists have devised an efficient and inexpensive means to measure drug use in cities by sampling municipal wastewater, according to the Environmental Science & Technology Journal.

Memories can be restored in drugged rats literally with the flick of a switch and the same can possibly be done to human beings suffering from dementia, according to researchers at Wake Forest University and the University of Southern California (USC).

Technology giant Apple Inc. has thrown all its weight behind the new version of Mac operating system - Mac OS X Lion - by holding back the launch of its new MacBook Air notebook till the Lion starts roaring.

The US government, which has faced a slew of cyber attacks in recent months, has gone on the offensive by working on National Cyber Range project, a platform that will function as a test-bed for cutting-edge cyber defense technologies and help train cyber warriors.

Faced with a growing threat from hacking and other cyber crimes, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have joined hands with leading ISPs and private defense contractors to launch a pilot program called DIB Cyber Pilot that will help strengthen their network defenses.

World's No.1 social networking site Facebook has launched a secret Project Spartan, a rogue app store that may kill Apple's iconic App Store.

Japanese video game developer Sega, which was hacked earlier this week, has found an unlikely friend in hacking group LulzSec, which has offered to help it destroy the people who attacked its network.

Lulz Security or LulzSec, which bills itself those evil bastards from Tweeter, made headlines earlier this week by threatening to destroy rival hacker group that hacked into Sega network - but who is LulzSec and what does it want?

A new feature in Apple 'Find my iPhone' service could help boost the technology giant's smartphone sales.

June 19 is Father's Day and if your dad is a geek, you're in luck - below are the top 5 useful and fun apps you can gift you dad and we bet he'll love them to death.