TECHNOLOGY

The HTC EVO 4G LTE, unveiled at a preview event Wednesday night, is being touted as a new Android competitor to the Apple iPhone 4S. This offers an occasion to weigh both smartphones' specs and features, even though the HTC phone's release date has not arrived yet.

Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in California to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The Asus Transformer Prime Eee Pad Firmware update has arrived, bringing with it bug fixes and performance enhancements that make the Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet more laptop-like.

Facebook Inc, preparing what would be Silicon Valley's largest IPO, has picked Nasdaq over the New York Stock Exchange for its listing in a major victory for the technology-laden U.S. bourse, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.

Console versions of Bethesda’s free-roam RPG “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” have just received the long awaited 1.5 update. The upgrade was made available for PC players in late March, and now Xbox 30 and PlayStation owners will be seeing a host of new features.

Hipmunk, the travel search site that aims to take the agony out of travel planning, launched a new integrated calendar application Thursday.

It seems like Russia might be moving the world closer to a zombie apocalypse. Last week Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian defense minister, announced plans for a new electromagnetic weapon. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia has been working on mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies.

Samsung has starting producing 4.65-inch Super AMOLED displays for its next generation Samsung Galaxy S3 phone, according to the Korean publication DDaily.

Apple may have rejected claims that its third generation iPad has overheating problems, but it's currently investigating claims of poor Wi-Fi performance, according to an apparent leaked document published by 9to5Mac.

Zynga, who recently acquired OMGPOP, announced that Draw Something has broken the record as the fastest-growing mobile application ever. At its peak, Draw Something was downloaded more than 50 million times in 50 days.

Over 600,000 Apple Mac computers running on OS X have been infected with a flashback Trojan virus called BackDoor.Flashback.39. But how can you tell if your Mac has been infected with the Flashback Trojan virus? Here is a guide for how to determine if you have the virus along with removal instructions.

It's been likened to a piece of toast, a device for elephants and a throwback to the 1980s-style brick phone.

1940 was the year when America was just coming out of the Depression era and was not far from entering another catastrophe, the World War II.

It seems that the owners of the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note won't have to wait until Q2 to get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, as announced by Samsung earlier. After Galaxy Nexus and the popular Galaxy S2, it's the South Korean tech giant's big guy Galaxy Note, which is reportedly next in line to get the ICS scoop.

Apple Inc and publishers Pearson and Macmillan are reluctant to agree to terms sought by U.S. and European antitrust authorities investigating possible electronic-book price-fixing, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on Wednesday.

Apple Inc and publishers Pearson and Macmillan are reluctant to agree to terms sought by U.S. and European antitrust authorities investigating possible electronic-book price-fixing, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on Wednesday.

Google Inc is getting into the eyewear business with a pair of thin wraparound shades that puts the company's Web services in your face.

A U.S. judge largely sided with Apple on Wednesday over how several technical terms will be defined in its patent fight against Samsung over smartphones and tablets.

The Nyan Cat turns one year old on Thursday. The original video now has more than 69 million views on YouTube.

Ntelos, a small Virginia-based cellphone company, has launched the iPhone 4S ahead of T-Mobile and larger network providers because of its broadband internet speed capabilities, Slashgear reports.

Samsung Galaxy S2 owners in the UK are getting impatient for the Ice Cream Sandwich update, which Samsung said would start rolling out on March 19.

Video game fans and consumers have been up-in-arms over the anti-climactic ending to the Mass Effect trilogy. Jennifer Hale, the Canadian voice actor who portrayed the female of version of Mass Effect protagonist, Commander Sam Shepard, spoke to Edge, giving her own take on the ending for the first time. Hale revealed that she was disappointed by the ending, impressed by the reactions from fans, and hopeful--though not necessarily optimistic--that Bioware and EA will ever release...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a five-year research initiative that will eventually enable people to design personalized robots, then have those robots built using three-dimensional printers.

SwiftKey, the new digital Android Keyboard app, has launched a third Beta version that eliminates the use of the spacebar on smartphones.

Instagram has finally been released for the Android operating system, and it's quickly become one of the must-have apps for photographers using the operating system. Instagram was downloaded more than 1 million times on Tuesday.

Sony has announced it will be adding Amazon streaming video to the PlayStation Network. The move indicates a strong shift toward video game console-makers creating all-encompassing media devices.

The highly anticipated Instagram photo app has arrived on Android devices; drawing in more than 1 million downloads within the first 24 hours of its release, but users have noticed some differences.

What causes a YouTube video to go viral? Two factors immediately come to mind: cute animals (ex: sneezing panda) and exploding things (ex: Mentos and Coke). So it's no surprise that a video of Boo, an adorable fluffy dog, exploding into a pile of candy, has quickly taken off online. Check out the viral exploding dog video here, and enjoy five other videos of cute things exploding!

The tech world is currently busy speculating about two upcoming smartphones - Apple's next generation iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 5, and the Samsung Galaxy S3. Given that both devices are expected to be highly feature-rich, they are rightly considered as the manufacturers' best weapons in the so-called smartphone battlefield.