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Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief who holds more then 400 patents, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 85, an iPod user.

T-Mobile missed out on the iPhone, but they do have the HTC Amaze 4G, and it promises to take the Android vs Apple fight to another level. That's because it is one loaded smartphone, and the $200 on contract price backs that up nicely.

The time has come to wish year 2011 adieu and welcome year 2012. Year 2011 had been an eventful year and the tech industry kept itself busy with new product launches.

Siri, the voice-controlled, intelligent, personal assistant that has become the most popular feature of iPhone 4S, is useful and will try to answer all your questions. But don't push it too far or else, it might hurl curses at you, as a 10-year-old British kid found out, to the dismay of his parents.

The iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak, released by iPhone Dev Team (Corona 5.0.1) and Chronic Dev Team (RedSn0w 9.10b) based on the French hacker pod2g's work, has been made available on iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPhone4-CDMA, iPad, iPod Touch 3G and iPod touch 4G. Many people have downloaded and installed the untethered jailbreak, but some of them have encountered various kinds of problems.

As 2011 counts down to its last few hours, there will be a number of people working on Apple's forthcoming mobile operating system - the company themselves, the product users and, obviously, iOS hackers.

Many users, who had already overwritten an earlier jailbreak and stepped into the puffed-up untethered jailbreak world, have been facing a number of crashes due to MobileSubstrate-based apps. To fix the issue, a third beta of Redsn0w - called Redsn0w 0.9.10b3 - has been released for both Mac OS X and Windows.

A new California law will force retailers and manufacturers to disclose from 2012 how they guard against slavery and human trafficking throughout their supply chains, ratcheting up scrutiny over some of the largest U.S. corporations.

Sorry, Apple fans: Numerous inside sources report that the iPad 3 will not have a January launch. To tide you over until its eventual release, however, here's everything we know (and everything that's been disproved) about the tablet computer's specs, upgrades, release date and price range from the Apple rumor grapevine.

The iPad 3 was initially rumored to be thicker than its predecessor in order to accommodate an alleged retina screen, but new reports have revealed that the tablet's new design will be slightly thinner than the iPad 2, the DigiTimes reported.

An untethered jailbreak for Apple devices powered by the A4 processor has been released. Meanwhile, users of Apple devices running on the A5 processor are still waiting for their jailbreak. However, the release of a break for A4 devices doesn't mean the hackers' jobs are over.

Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless service carrier, will charge $2 “convenience fee” to its customers, who pay one-time bill online or by telephone, starting from Jan. 15.

When 12-year-old boy named Charlie Le Quesne got the shock of his life when the Siri app on a demo iPhone 4S told him to shut the f--k up and called him an ugly t--t when he asked it a question at an Apple store in Conventry, UK. Apple staffers have launched a full investigation, but it's likely pranksters simply reprogrammed the iPhone using Siri's naming system.

Technology companies appear likely to resume battle in 2012 on three major fronts of the patent wars: smartphone designs, operating systems and semiconductor chip sets. Despite passage of copyright reform under the America Invents Act in September, technology lawsuits persist and experienced lawyers worry that little will change.

Windows Phone Apollo is rumored to launch at the end of 2012, around the same time the iPhone 5 will supposedly be released. So are you on team superphone or smartphone?

Steve Jobs famously left Apple for nearly a decade in the 90s, but when he returned, he not only helped revive the company he founded, he also donated a trove of Apple documents and photos to Stanford University's Silicon Valley Archives. In 1997, Stanford took charge of what was to become an Apple museum, and turned two truckloads of books, software, videotapes and more into Stanford's Apple Collection.

A smartphone is no longer a style statement, rather it is a necessity. So there is no wonder that 2011 has been an exciting year for smartphones. A number of smartphones flooded the market this year and the phones manufactured by HTC stole a considerable share in the market.

The untethered jailbreak for the Apple devices powered by A4 processor is finally out, but the users of A5 devices like iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are still hopeful of getting a jailbreak in the current year only.

On Christmas Day of this year, activations of new Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices surged 353 percent over the baseline (the average from the first 20 days of December) of 1.5 million to 6.8 million, and more than 142 percent increase over last Christmas, according to mobile application analytics firm Flurry.

The iOS 5/5.0.1 untethered jailbreak has been made available for iDevice users, but only the A4 devices owners can enjoy it. The A5 device owners have to wait for further information from Dev Team. However, the iOS 5/5.0.1 untethered jailbreak does not work perfectly. iPhone Dev Team released redsn0w 0.9.10b3 (for both Mac and Windowsusers) to fix a problem where re-running redsn0w over an existing jailbreak would cause MobileSubstrate-based apps to stop running until MS was installed again.

Rumors about the over-hyped iPhone 5's launch date, redesign and new features have begun swirling again even as year 2011 draws to a close.