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It seems everything going Apple's way. A day after the consumer technology giant briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil to become the world's largest public company by market capitalization, it won a legal battle against Samsung in Europe.

Just days after launching revamped versions of BlackBerry Torch and Bold models which optimize the BlackBerry OS 7, reports are filtering in which suggest that RIM will launch its first QNX-based smartphone in Q1, 2012.

Two nights before playing this past weekend's Lollapalooza, Coldplay joined the Grammy Foundation, about 2,000 winners and invitees, and Samsung and AT&T for a one-off private concert at the UCLA tennis center -- the Samsung Summer AT&T Summer Krush.

In another victory for Apple's legal team, courts in Germany ruled against rival Samsung Electronics, barring it from selling its competing tablet computer in most of the European Union.

Nokia has decided to part ways with Symbian in the U.S. A move that should shock very few.

Apple has done it again - after blocking rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, the technology giant managed, Monday, to get a preliminary injunction (or temporary restraining order) from a German court that prevents Samsung from selling Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole of Europe (excluding the Netherlands).

A German court ruled that Samsung Galaxy tablet computers cannot be sold in any EU country besides the Netherlands.

The Tribune Co., one of the largest newspaper publishers in the U.S., is working on a tablet computer of its own to offer its subscribers, CNN reported, citing interviews with more than half a dozen current and former Tribune employees.

The manufacturers set aside their differences and work together on 3D glasses for the good of the industry.

The next Apple iPhone rendition, the iPhone 5, will sport speech-recognition feature courtesy of Nuance Technologies.

The smartphone will run on Android 2.2 (Froyo) which can upgraded to Gingerbread.

Hewlett Packard reduced the price of its TouchPad tablet computer again, highlighting the uphill battle manufacturers will need to overcome as they go head-to-head against the dominant Apple iPad line of tablets.

U.S. sales of Blu-ray movie and television discs rose this year as overall spending on home entertainment dropped and viewing habits shifted, new figures from an industry group showed.

Looking to gain some ground on the iPad, HP slashed the price of its TouchPad tablets.

Shares of Research in Motion are at a yearly low. But they could recover with new Blackberry products. Or attract a bidder.

A stock market decline won't hurt tech companies but could stall IPOs because tech is vital to the economy.

Luxury goods maker Pierre Cardin took a plunge into the tablet landscape with a 7-inch Android tablet under the moniker PC-7006.

According to research firm, International Data Corporation, Apple's sales of 20.3 million iPhones worldwide during the second quarter of 2011 helped the company secure 19.1 percent of the market share and lead all other vendors.

Motorola accidentally posted the specifications of its upcoming Verizon LTE phone, the Droid Bionic, which is touted as "an all-powerful, unstoppable machine."

In one of the world's biggest lawsuits, Apple Inc has sued Samsung Electronics for slavishly copying the 'look and feel' and 'design' of its products iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone. Both Samsung and Apple entered into a legal battle over patent infringement in the month of April 2011. Samsung counter sued Apple in 4 countries in 3 different continents.

In a world of never-ending battle for preserving intellectual property, technology giants Microsoft and Apple are hitting out at Google.