TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Electronics (Seoul: 005930), the No. 1 smartphone maker, predicted sales next month of the new Galaxy S III model will top 11 million, including 10 million outside South Korea.

Asus has announced that its Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700) is set to hit shelves in the U.S. in the week of starting July 16. The 32GB model of the tablet will cost $499, while the 64GB model will be available for $599.

The so-called Samsung Galaxy S3 June 21 release date has been a massive disappointment to Samsung enthusiasts in the U.S, who are facing significant delays and backlogs for pre-ordered phones.

Ever make a major boo-boo or typo when posting a Facebook comment and wish you could change the error? Well now you can thanks to Facebook's newest feature, comment editing. Forget deleting the comment or post and creating a new, corrected version. Now you and the other 900,000 Facebook users across the globe can simply edit instead of deleting.

On Saturday, Alan Turing would have been 100. So Google has come up with yet another interactive Google Doodle honoring his memory. Saturday's Google Doodle is a virtual version of the Turing Machine, conceptualized by Turing in 1936, that helps explain how a CPU thinks in binary, i.e. 1s and 0s.

One of the members at the XDA-Developer forum named Lil Jones noticed that the section dedicated to the latest Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the Google Play Store mentioned the imminent software upgrade for the handset would be Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Expanded tweets are quietly revolutionizing the Twitter we all love so much but find so frustrating in light of its 140 characters per Tweet requirement. Relief seems to be on the way for Twitter users have long wanted the site to offer users the opportunity to write more than 140 characters.

Twitter users are growing increasingly frustrated after a widespread outage hit the service across all platforms on Thursday.

The worldwide PC market is expected to grow 5 percent year over year in 2012 with nearly 383 million shipments, a slight improvement over the moderate growth seen in 2011 as PCs continue to struggle for growth amidst intensifying competition from alternative devices, global political uncertainty and a still bumpy economic roadmap, says the latest International Data Corporation report.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is dishing out $42 million to build a giant grandfather clock. The clock, which will chime an elaborate song every year, decade, century, millennium and 10 millennia, is reportedly intended to ensure that people will remember Bezos for years to come.

One of the key contributors to Samsung's success story has been the big guy Galaxy Note. According to ongoing rumors, the company is likely to release the successor to the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, later this year to rival Apple iPhone 5, which is also expected to arrive during this fall.

Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, has fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patrino said.

Microsoft's next generation gaming console, dubbed the Xbox 720, will feature major upgrades in hardware and software, including Kinect 2 and AR Glasses, when it is launched ahead of the 2013 holiday season, according to a 56-page document leaked online that has since been removed.

The MacBook Pro With Retina display will ship from Apple in three to four weeks, the Apple Store website says. This is a further delay from the two to three weeks Apple told customers they'd have to wait for the laptop as recently as a few days ago, technology website Vr-zone reported Friday.

With the new iPad having the 4G LTE technology, the consensus seems to be that the upcoming iPhone 5 will be Apple's first smartphone to sport a 4G LTE chip. According to a latest report surfaced Friday, chip vendors including Qualcomm and Broadcom are preparing production to supply Apple with their solutions for the upcoming iPhone iteration.

Before Apple shocked the WWDC audience with a completely-redesigned MacBook Pro with a stunning Retina Display, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted Apple would unveil such a notebook, and he even correctly forecast most of the features. On Thursday, describes how Apple will follow up the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro with a smaller, 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, to be released in October 2012.

Last week, Verizon announced the opening of pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone and said that it would start shipping the device by July 9. But according to a latest update by the carrier, the shipping date has been pushed back by one whole day to July 10.

It seems Apple has so much faith in its new powerhouse MacBook Pro Retina Display, that it has compromised the extent of its repairability.

After issuing a warning last week, saying that it would block links from certain domains for misuse of the service, popular link-sharing website Reddit announced Wednesday that it had indeed banned a number of domains that included leading publications like The Atlantic and Businessweek.

The Windows Phone Developer Summit is approaching, which means that Microsoft may come close to unveiling more information about Windows Phone 8. The event is scheduled to take place on June 20, but details on the new mobile operating system may have already surfaced.

With Apple seeding the first iOS 6 beta to developers for download, many thought about the possibility of a tethered jailbreak on A4 devices using the latest RedSn0w tool. According to a latest report, it is indeed possible.

Apple has confirmed that new models and new designs of the Mac Pro are in the works and might be released in 2013.

Apple allows only a decent set of devices to run the new firmware, including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, New iPad and iPod touch 4G. Here's the complete list of features, provided by Apple, which will be and will not be available on various devices.

Hackers gathered in Tel Aviv last week to discuss the state of cybersecurity, amid suspicions that Israel is behind attacks on Iranian computers.

T-Mobile has finally started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung's Galaxy S2.

The new iPhone is not being unveiled at WWDC 2012 as some Apple enthusiasts had hoped, but the iOS 6 announcement gives us plenty of clues to what we can expect in the fall.

Apple patted itself on the back at the onset of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), flaunting growth figures alongside the competition's. The results, in case you didn't already guess, is the Cupertino, Calif. tech giant is doing pretty well.

The highly anticipated revamped and redesigned MacBook Pro has been unveiled at WWDC 2012, heralded as the thinnest MacBook Pro ever made, with a revolutionary 2,880 x 1,800 Retina display.

At a time when all eyes are on Apple with its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off 10 a.m. PT on Monday at Moscone West center in San Francisco, a latest report said, citing an industry analyst, that Apple would unveil the iOS 6 Golden Master in early September, which would be followed by next-generation iPhone later the same month.