TECHNOLOGY

This weekend, while touring the New Museum with my sister and her husband, I came across a real work of art: A great new mod for my Android phone.

Arfa Karim Randhawa, Microsoft's youngest certified professional and computer prodigy, has died after suffering from an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest. She was 16.

Three former executives at bankrupt Nortel Networks reached into the cookie jar a decade ago to enrich themselves, prosecutors said, opening a fraud trial that dredged up memories of one of the most spectacular casualties of the 1990's dot-com bubble.

Email is one of the Catch-22's of an Internet-connected age: communication becomes easy enough to fill an inbox with hundreds of time-consuming messages that beg responses.

Olympus Corp should be the easiest of takeover targets: a profitable business with its share price in tatters, its management in utter disgrace and its balance sheet in need of fresh capital. But not in Japan.

Olympus Corp should be the easiest of takeover targets: a profitable business with its share price in tatters, its management in utter disgrace and its balance sheet in need of fresh capital. But not in Japan.

Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database.

Another exciting week of the Consumer Electronics Show has come to an end and it's time to take a look at those who really shined at CES 2012 and those that managed to disappoint.

HTC EVO family legacy was continued by Sprint with the addition of HTC EVO Design 4G, the first EVO family member touting World Phone capabilities. But the phone faces immense pressure from Samsung Galaxy S2, which is considered to be the best Android smartphone yet.

The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, which is almost similar in specifications to the Droid Razr, was released at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and boasts, as the highlight of its specs sheet, a much-improved battery back-up capability.

ASUS has chosen to roll out the next tablet - Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T - in the Transformer Prime series after the predecessor had some design flaw. However, the tablet has to deal with the iconic Apple Inc.'s iPad 2, as the benchmark for design and performance has been set by the California giant.

At a time when the impending untethered jailbreak for A5-powered devices (iPhone 4S and iPad2) is creating much buzz around the tech world, speculation on the features of Apple's next generation iPad - aka iPad 3 - are also keeping the enthusiastic minds of Apple fans busy.

Samsung announced last week that the Galaxy Note will be coming to the U.S., on AT&T's network. AT&T, in turn, said the device would be available in the coming weeks but stopped short of announcing either the release date or the price.

Anger at the practice of demanding dowries, which can lead to violence against brides, has prompted a takeoff of Angry Birds called Angry Brides that aims to highlight the illegal practice still prevalent in many South Asian countries.

There is good news for those who have been waiting for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered Jailbreak running on iOS 5.0.1. Planetbeing, a popular iPhone hacker, has tweeted that it now possible to run an unsigned code on his iPhone 4S, which is surely an indication of success.

Microsoft has announced that all Windows 8 ARM PCs, tablets and other devices will be locked to the original operating system.

According to the latest report, the iPad 3 is expected to be launched in March this year with a high-definition screen, a faster processor, supporting the next-generation wireless networks, and many other new features. Considering all these aspects, one major question that arises is whether the iPad 3 will have an improved battery life.

Here's a clip of the video below by developer and hacker Dustin Howett, which shows a fully untethered jailbreak on the iPhone 4S.

Arfa Karim Randhawa, who at 9 years old became the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, has died on Saturday at the age of 16, according to reports from Pakistan's The Express Tribune. She suffered an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest and was hospitalized for nearly a month before dying.

Meanwhile, it is believed that those who have taken a fancy to the TF700T, will have to shell out a higher price of $600 for 32GB model and $700 for the 64GB version.

For those who are anxiously waiting to buy the ASUS Transformer Prime the two points of purchase, as of now, are Office Depot and eBay, according to the latest reports.

With the help of Pod2g's exploits, the Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team released Corona 5.0.1 and Redsn0w 9.10b1 respectively, compatible with A4-powered devices on iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. But recent reports said Apple has patched the Corona Untethered exploit in the latest iOS 5.1 Beta 3.

Nokia Lumia 900, which is expected to be the breakthrough device for the Microsoft Windows Phone platform, will arrive earlier than anticipated.

Apple's iPad 3 is likely to be launched in March, Bloomberg has reported, citing three persons familiar with the product.

ASUS Memo 370T, the world's first 7-inch tablet powered by the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor, was unveiled at the Consumer Electronic Show-2012.

A Japanese banker who is a key figure in the Olympus accounting fraud came into public view for the first time since the scandal broke, appearing on Friday at his divorce hearing in a Florida court.

Motorola Mobility Inc did not violate Apple's patented technology in making its Droid, Cliq, BackFlip and other smartphones, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary decision issued on Friday.

From the world's first eye-controlled laptop and a pet-tracking app to a glass-encased ultra-thin notebook, 2012's Consumer Electronics Show produced more than a few gems to point the way forward in technology.

Apple revealed its closely guarded list of global suppliers for the first time and vowed to deal with worker abuses, hoping to deflect criticism it was turning a blind eye to cases of poor working conditions in a mostly Asian supply chain.