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While millions of Apple users are occupied with the recently released Absinthe untethered jailbreak for A5-powered devices, intense discussions on the features and success of Apple's next generation iPhone 5 have gained momentum.

Asus has confirmed that it will roll out the Android 4.0 update for the Transformer Prime Tablet in the UK starting Sunday.

The prospect that MS Windows Phone will beat Apple's iPhone in year 2015 has emerged. According to industry research firm IHS iSuppli, Windows Phone will increase its market share of smartphone operating system up to 16.7 % in 2015. Though Windows Phone has only 1.9% market share in year 2011, it will increase its market share gradually to 9% in 2012, 15.3% in 2013, 16.1% in 2014 and 16.7% in 2015.

Acer debuted the Iconia Tab A510 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, and the 10-inch device is of the quad-core system variety, but it should debut for a few dollars less than the iPad 3.

Siri, the virtual intelligent assistant exclusive to iPhone 4S, will be improved and packed into most future Apple devices, if not all. Predictably, the voice-controlled technology might become a core part of the Apple brand.

As tough as it may be for Android enthusiasts to choose between two highly acclaimed devices, a roundup of specifications can probably help...

The HP TouchPad tablet is expected to have the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich following the efforts of an Android community development team.

With the searing success of Apple's iPhone line helping to spur sales of nearly 580 million smartphones in 2011, consumers are lining up to buy them. Meanwhile, the mobile industry is dying to serve them, lured by prospects of subscriber growth and terabytes of new revenue.

The year 2011 saw the debut of quad-core devices in the market. This year is no different, with many phone manufacturers prepping to release such products, apparently the latest one being from HTC Inc, GSM Arena reports.

Even though iPad has become the most popular tablet in the world, China's Communist Party members are content using special red tablets to do their work.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had once sworn to fight Google's Android with his last dying breath and every penny Apple had in the bank as the creative tech genius believed the rival has committed a grand theft of the iPhone's operating system. However, another Steve in Apple, and ironically, a co-founder of the tech giant, feels Apple has a lot to learn from Android phones.

Google Inc's quarterly results fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations for the holiday season as declining search advertising rates contributed to a rare miss, triggering a 9 percent slide in its shares.

Fortune magazine named Google the best company to work for in America in 2012. The search giant, based in Mountain View, Calif., tries to keep a perfectionist attitude about everything it does, which is why it continues to grow: It is never satisfied with its success.

The latest ASUS Transformer Prime software update has improved the GPS performance of the tablet, a problem that ASUS had previously attributed to a design flaw.

Verizon customers looking to upgrade their phones have a few choices in the $99 range, and the HTC Thunderbolt, Droid 3 and Motorola Droid Incredible are three of the best.

If you are a deal hunter and looking for a post-holiday tablet offering, check out the $99 Galaxy Tab from Verizon or the $299 HTC EVO View from Amazon. Plenty of new tablets came out right before the holidays, and those devices are still for sale at premium prices.

China Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred.

HTC EVO family legacy was continued by Sprint with the addition of HTC EVO Design 4G, the first EVO family member touting World Phone capabilities. But the phone faces immense pressure from Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, which is a Long Term Evolution (LTE) version of the Galaxy S2 and debuted in AT&T network Nov. 6.

Asus Transformer Prime TF700T, the first Android tablet with NVIDIA's new quad-core Tegra 3 chip, which was expected to get released earlier this year, will hit the UK market only in June, confirms the official Asus UK blog.

Sony Ericsson posted a quarterly loss that missed all forecasts after losing in the battle for smartphone sales in the key year-end period, showing the challenge for Sony as it prepares to take full control of the joint venture.

The latest figures disclosed by Nielsen reveals Apple Inc.'s amazing performance in terms of grabbing smartphone market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. The credit for this leap should be attributed to the iPhone 4S which was launched in October, opine experts.