TECHNOLOGY

The release date for iOS 6, Apple’s free software upgrade for its mobile devices, came on Wednesday, just days before the iPhone 5 hits retail stores. Apple enthusiasts patiently awaited the software installation that would bring them 200 new features, but it seems as if the most significant of these additions, the new Apple Maps, was lacking in some crucial areas.

11 federal judges will hear arguments about where dozens of lawsuits against Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) should be tried.

As the release date for Windows 8 approaches, more devices catering to Microsoft's upcoming software have been revealed.

Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE), the top graphics software developer, rose more than 1 percent in early Thursday trading despite projecting fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that fell below expectations. The company has scheduled major cloud initiatives for next week.

Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: ADBE), the top graphics software developer, rose more than 3 percent despite poor revenue outlook.

iPhone Dev-Team’s popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w works on the new iOS 6 release. It can perform a tethered iOS 6 jailbreak on A4-based iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th-gen.

After months of waiting, Apple finally released iOS 6 to the masses Wednesday morning. The new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, as promised, comes with more than 200 new features for users to use and discover. By now, thousands of customers are surely hooked up to their networks downloading the new software as we speak, but users may want to hold off from downloading iOS 6 for a couple of key reasons.

Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, set another record high and closed at a record $702.10, up 19 cents, as millions of global customers began to download the new iOS 6 from the Cupertino, Calif.-based electronics company.

Microsoft's Xbox 720 release could some with innovative technology that is vastly different from its current-generation console. A new patent describing wearable controllers has just surfaced, sparking rumors that this could be part of Microsoft's plan for the next-gen Xbox 720.

First-quarter earnings from Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) could be an early sign for performance by IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (Nasadq: MSFT).

A new single-player "Mass Effect 3" DLC will get a release date this fall, and BioWare has alluded to the fact that a new "Mass Effect" full-length game could be in development.

After providing a handful of publications with early units of the new iPhone 5, Apple lifted the embargo for the first reviews of the phone late Tuesday night. For the most part, reviews of the iPhone 5 have been overwhelmingly positive. See what critics are saying about the all-new iPhone 5.

Could Microsoft's new deal With RIM be a prelude to an acquisition?

Samsung officially announced it will release its Galaxy Note 2 by mid-November on all five major U.S. carriers, including Verizon, AT&T, U.S. Cellular, T-Mobile and Sprint.

Yahoo shares were steady after Tuesday's surge on news it has sold part of its stake in China's Alibaba Group.

Based on the last four years of Apple releasing new iOS software, we believe Apple will release iOS 6 today (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. PDT.

IGN is claiming that a new, slimmer Playstation 3 will be announced by Sony at the Tokyo Game Show.

Apple fans and phone enthusiasts alike are looking forward to this Friday, the day Apple will finally release its all-new iPhone 5 out into the wild. With pre-orders for the new iPhone selling out in record time, users can't wait to get their hands on all the new features the iPhone 5 has to offer. The iPhone 5 is the first Apple device to run on the company's custom-built A6 chip, which is 22 percent smaller than the A5 and A5X chips found in the iPad 2, iPad 3, Apple TV 2 and iPhone 4S, ...

Square, the new rising star of Silicon Valley founded and lead by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, closed a $200 million fundraising round on Monday that now places the start-up's value at $3.25 billion. The privately-held San Francisco based company hopes to establish itself as the go-to mobile wallet in a growing industry of digital payment systems that all seek to turn smartphones into people's primary means of transaction.

The worldwide cloud services market is estimated to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to surpass the $109-billion mark, according to a new report by Gartner.

iOS developer NotCom announced Monday that he had updated the jailbreak utility TinyUmbrella to version 6.00.00 with extended support to Apple TV on iOS 5.0.2 and iOS 6.0 support (including betas) to all supported iOS devices.

During the unveiling of iPhone 5 in San Francisco last week, Apple announced that the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6, would be made available for all the supported devices, including iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4, iPad 3 and iPad 2 Sept. 19.

Pakistan has ordered the shutdown of the video-sharing website YouTube in order to prevent any further violence related to the anti-Islamic film ?Innocence of Muslims.?

The much anticipated title has a new trailer for Xbox 360 Kinect users.

Since 2001, every iPod, iPhone and iPad has come with a pair of Apple's signature white earphones, "the earbuds." For three years, Apple set out to create a speaker that was comfortable, secure, and provided one of the best audio experiences around. They were three years well-spent: These EarPods are incredible, and they're far superior to any audio experience Apple has created thus far.

Motorola Xoom (Wi-Fi and LTE) versions get official CyanogenMod (CM) 10 Nightlies.

The first iPhone 5 benchmark results have hit Geekbench and showed that the sixth generation iPhone, running iOS 6 with a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1GB of RAM, narrowly beats all previous iOS devices and high end Android products.

Unlike past iPhone launches, where customers could possibly get away with using their old iPhone case on the new model, Apple has endowed the iPhone 5 with a brand-new form factor with a taller and thinner build, a larger 4-inch screen, and several migrated components like the earphone jack and speaker grills. This means that everyone buying the new iPhone 5 will be in the market for new cases to both protect and brand their new purchase. We've scoured the Internet for the coolest iPhone 5 ca...