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Barclays Capital expects Apple Inc. to ship iPad 3 in March/April but other rumors suggest the next-generation of iPad is coming sometime in the next two months.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the world’s biggest software company will thrive in the exploding world of laptops, tablets and new applications.

Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, rock duo The Black Keys and alternative rock band Radiohead will headline the popular Coachella music festival in April, organizers said on Monday.

Coachella 2012 runs for two weekends in April.

Intel plans to make its biggest marketing push since 2003 for a new, super-thin category of laptops it has dubbed ultrabooks, hoping to fend off major strides made by Apple Inc and its MacBook Air into the high-end personal computing market.

Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush has said that he wants marriage and children. The NFL players said he doesn't want to be lonely forever.

AMR Corp , the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, on Monday said it would cut service between Chicago and New Delhi and between Dallas/Fort Worth and Burbank, California, a move that will eliminate 150 jobs.

The search for extraterrestrial life just got a little closer to its goal. Scientists released preliminary results Friday of signals from NASA's Kepler satellite as part of the Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence based out of the University of California Berkeley.

Blankley, who earned the name The Speaker's Speaker while working with Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, has died at age 62 of stomach cancer. Blankley served in the Reagan administration, and was a noted author, conservative columnist and editor at The Washington Times. Watch Gingrich remember his ally and friend, and read others' remembrances of the conservative wunderkind.

The Miami Marlins' new pitcher Mark Buehrle would rather stick by his pit bull pooch than abide by Miami-Dade County laws.

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) could guide its first quarter revenues to decline 4 percent to 8 percent sequentially when it reports its fourth-quarter results on Jan.19, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Kate Middleton will celebrate her 30th birthday on Monday, and palace officials have indicated that the Duchess of Cambridge will have something low-key and private.

Wedbush Securities expects Apple Inc. to launch the iPad 3 in the fiscal second quarter but other rumors suggest the next-generation of iPad is coming sometime in the next two months.

The 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gala event on Saturday at the Palm Springs (Calif.) Convention Center was a star-studded event attended by the creme-de-la-creme of the movie industry.

A serial killer may be responsible for the slayings of three homeless men in Southern California who were each found stabbed multiple times, police said on Thursday.

Heather Donahue is best known for 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project that showed her hyperventilating and weeping in the forest as she and her friends were terrorized by unseen evil.

Soul singer Etta James, who is terminally ill and suffering from leukemia, was released from a California hospital on Thursday and is at home resting, her business manager said.

James Franco is in early talks for a starring role in The Game, the MGM movie based on Neil Strauss' New York Times bestseller about picking up women, TheWrap has confirmed.

One winner in 2012's political races already has been decided: local television stations.

Warner Bros. totally flipped the script on the Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- but it was all an innocent mistake.

Christina Aguilera addressed critics of her weight gain at a recent press tour saying, I love my body.