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The much-speculated release of the iPhone 5 from Apple (AAPL) in October will make a strong, innovative, trend-setting company even stronger, and institutional investors have been piling in to the stock since July. Is Apple’s stock headed to $600 in 2012?

Fueling fire to the rumor that the new iPhone 5 will hit stores next month, Verizon is selling the iPhone 4 for $120 until Sept. 30.

South-Korea's Samsung is taking the offensive against Apple, pushing for product injunctions and stepping up rhetoric against long-time consumer electronics rival.

There have been rumors that a possible midrange smartphone will be launched along with the release of iPhone 5 in early October.

Spotify announced its partnership with Facebook at f8, and one day later, announced it would remove its invite-only process and open registration up to the public. Users get six free months of the service when they sign up.

HTC’s Vigor, which is slated to be released in October with its superlative specifications, is likely to up the ante against Motorola Droid Bionic.

The hottest social networks seem quite busy these days -- providing a lot for millions of users around the world to digest. Just this week, Google+, Google's new social network, opened to the general public for sign-up and while making several site changes. Now, Facebook is launching a major design overhaul new features -- some similar to those introduced recently by Google+.

The iPhone 5, or iPhone 4S, as it has at times been rumored to be named, is expected to debut sometime in October. If the latest rumor about its release date is to be believed, Oct. 4 will witness the much-awaited product launch of the iPhone 5 this year. Here are the top features that iPhone 5 can't afford to lose.

As the release date of the iPhone 5 nears, the amount of rumors over the specifications and the release date also reached a new scale as it is the most anticipated smartphone in the U.S. market.

Apple Inc. is expected to conduct a press event on Oct. 4, which may see the release of iPhone 5 with iOS 5, according to analysts. Analysts at Jefferies are expecting Apple to focus on iOS 5 and its cloud service capabilities.

The iPhone 5 is expected to be released next month, with the current report suggesting that Apple will hold an official introduction event for the much talked about handset on Oct. 4th.

“Your Man Reminder” app will be available next month.

The week's stock market crash didn’t spare the technology sector, which is often immune from the cycles that beset banking and basic industries. If anything, tech stocks got hammered worse than the market.

Will the possible release of the iPhone 5 to Sprint (S) in October spark a renaissance in the wireless sector, including for longstanding iPhone carrier Verizon (VZ)?

Apple's upcoming operating system iOS 5, which is expected to be released this fall and is going to power iPhone 5, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3 GS, has copied certain features from the Android platform.

Softbank Corp's (9984.T) lucrative gig as the sole iPhone vendor in Japan faces trouble as rival KDDI (9433.T) hammers out a deal with Apple, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, while worries of lost sales sent Softbank shares sliding 12 percent.

The much-anticipated release of the next version of the iPhone, presumably the iPhone 5, has been hotly debated. But if what former vice president and current Apple Inc. board member Al Gore believes is true, consumers can expect the new iPhones to be here in October.

Android smartphones are catching up to Apple's iPhone and are almost way ahead in every direction.

Apple’s rumored upcoming iPhone 5 is the most awaited smartphone on the planet, even though no one outside Apple can even confirm if the phone exists. If it does, it is already facing major competition from the likes of Samsung Galaxy S2 and Motorola Droid Bionic.

Apple's iPhone 5, the most anticipated smartphone of the year, is expected to arrive sometime in October, while Samsung Galaxy S2 has hit the United States last week, after becoming the best selling Samsung phone ever.

Shares of Softbank Corp <9984.T>, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, tumbled more than 10 percent on Thursday after a report said the company was set to lose its position as the sole vendor of Apple's iPhone in Japan.