ELECTRONICS

Taking queue from Android and Apple iOS strategy New York City opened its set of data to developers to create apps which could unlock the potential trapped in public data.

Months ahead of the release of Apple's next iPhone, AT&T has increased the price of upgrading the device.

Texas Instruments agreed to buy National Semiconductor, a deal that combines two industry leaders in analog semiconductors.

New data from ComScore puts Google Android on the top of the list for the smartphone market category, followed by RIM and Apple in the second and the third positions respectively.

Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion; the latter's stock soars in after-hours trading.

iPhone upgrade fees have increased by $50, the company confirms.

The hacker collective Anonymous has posted a warning to Sony that it plans an attack of some kind as revenge for the legal action taken against another hacker who modified a PlayStation 3.

Google has put in a $900 million bid for Nortel Networks' patent portfolio, which could make it a real player in mobile technology and forestall lawsuits over its smartphone line.

Shares of Omnivision were battered on Monday after reports surfaced this weekend suggesting that the company had lost a major contract to supply Apple with camera parts to Sony.

Shares of OmniVision's stock dropped this morning 9% to $32.93, reflecting fears that Apple's move to Sony will hurt OmniVision's bottom line.

With the improvement, the camera joins multiple significant additions expected in the next iPhone.

If you go by a leaked photo of the upcoming seventh generation Apple iPod Nano, there is going to be a camera on this iconic product soon. Taiwanese Apple-related blog Apple.pro published a purportedly leaked photo of the seventh generation iPone Nano in the works, with a camera hole on it.

Sony hinted in a recent interview that the Japanese giant would supply its 8-megapixel camera sensor to Apple, most likely for the upcoming iPhone 5. But just how did this consumer-electronics rival end up supplying parts to power its most formidable opponent?

In a recent interview, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said that his company was gearing up to supply Apple with a powerful 8 megapixel camera, most likely for use in its forthcoming iPhone 5.

Music Unlimited, Sony’s streaming music service, is coming to the PSP, according to Sony.

The amount of competitive new launches near-term is making it a little bit tougher for Motorola Mobility, especially for its Xoom tablet.

Auriga USA LLC expects optical transport network to get increasingly crowded with players like PMC-Sierra Inc. (PMCS), Broadcom Corp. (BRCM), NetLogic Microsystems Inc. (NETL), and potentially even FPGA (field-programmable gate array) vendor Altera Corp. (ALTR) vying to build application specific standard products (ASSP) to target this space.

Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci steps down from his role; wanted to focus on tablets, Acer board wants to stick with PCs.

If Apple is delaying the release of its much-fancied iPhone 5 -- it certainly looks like at this point of time -- there indeed are going to be some strategic reasons behind it. And, if one dismisses grapevine on supply crunch and logistical bottlenecks, then the reasons are purely strategic, given that Apple is fighting hard for its space in the maddening smartphone arena.

Users of Samsung laptops may be sending private information to Samsung without their knowledge, according to a report from Network World.

Theories abound as to what Apple is packing into its next generation smartphone, but one industry expert believes the iPhone 5 will feature hardware to connect to ultra-fast 4G networks.