TECHNOLOGY

Players can also expect a variety of Spec Ops missions.

iPhone 4S is the fifth generation of iPhone developed by Apple Inc. The latest smartphone retains the exterior design of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, but featured some important upgrades compared to the previous model.

There have been more updates from Pod2g, the famed iOS hacker, on jailbreak for A5 devices. He has reported to have resolved the cache troubles with the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak. At the same time, the final solution seems to be far.

This year has been a good year of Apple users with many different tweaks available for ios jailbreak among which WinterBoard, Firebreak and Hands-Free Control have been found to be highly functional.

Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc will start tie-up talks next month with Taiwanese rival Nanya Technology Corp, with a view to a possible merger, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday.

NYU is considering a project that would turn the large building at 370 Jay Street, currently owned by the MTA, into the Center for Urban Science and Progress. The new facility would be an attempt to attract top talent from scientists and engineers around the world.

Micron Technology posted quarterly results below expectations and said weak prices for DRAM memory chips are making industry consolidation inevitable.

When Bonobos customers logged on to the men's apparel retailer's website late on Cyber Monday, all they saw was a photo of feet with a pair of pants drooped around them.

I've tried my best to embrace Spotify. Ever since news broke of its collaboration with Facebook, I've done my best to remain an active user. That's what Mark Zuckerberg wants. He envisions a world of seamless sharing on the internet. I know this because he said so at his F8 presentation, the annual Facebook developers' conference. But of course, Zuckerberg just wants more users on his company's app platform.

Verizon Wireless said it had fixed a data service problem that started early on Wednesday, the second high-profile service problem this month for the company that boasts it is the most reliable.

A Hungarian sculptor and software company have found a way to honor the late technology guru Steve Jobs.

Facebook agreed on Wednesday to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America, after a three-month investigation found that its privacy policies were overly complex and lacked transparency.

The highly anticipated ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is back in stock in some select stores and shipping to some customers in the U.S., according to the tech blog, Technorati.

The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content.

A Portuguese city suspended its police chief for sending a Christmas email greeting to its entire municipal workforce which contained images of scantily clad women and seasonal wishes for a great sex life.

It took seven months, but Research In Motion has finally delivered on a promise made by co-founder Mike Lazaridis. Angry Birds is available on RIM's PlayBook tablet.

Verizon Wireless engineers worked on fixing an issue with its high-speed wireless network in the early hours of Wednesday, the second high-profile service problem this month for the company that boasts it is the most reliable.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc has turned to a small group of technology entrepreneurs to help the world's largest retailer improve its online fortunes.

Nokia's long-awaited Windows phones may be too little, too late in the smartphone war dominated by Apple and Google, despite positive reviews by handset critics.

Susquehanna raised its price target on Apple Inc's stock and increased its iPhone shipment estimates as it sees the company ramping up smartphone production, now that Thailand-related constraints have been resolved.

Nokia's long-awaited Windows phones may be too little, too late in the smartphone war and investment in the shares will increasingly be driven by takeover speculation.

Google appears poised to go after the Apple iPad. Schmidt described the iPad as amazing, according to The Telegraph, and said the late Steve Jobs should be credited with creating the tablet craze. Many tablets already use Google's Android operating system, but Google doesn't sell its own hardware as a signature product.

Smartphones are, increasingly, becoming quite common, particularly with several wireless carriers making feature-rich devices affordable through contracts. The key aspect of a smartphone, apart from its operating system, is its processor... something which determines the speed of the device and acts as its brain.

MuscleNerd, after releasing Redsn0w 0.9.9b9 on Monday, has updated the latest version to help iPhone 3GS users. Redsn0w 0.9.9b9 is a semi-tethered jailbreak which is untethered for 3GS users who are using old bootrom.

Dozens of black-suited investigators, marching double-file, raided the office building of three small Olympus Corp subsidiaries Wednesday, one of 20 sites searched in a probe of a $1.7 billion accounting scandal that threatens the once-proud Japanese medical device maker's survival.

There is good news for Apple device users, with Dev Team member MuscleNerd having announced the release of RedSn0w 0.0.0b9, a tethered jailbreak.

Japanese prosecutors raided offices of Olympus Corp and the home of a former executive on Wednesday in a probe into a $1.7 billion accounting scandal that has threatened the survival of the once-proud camera and medical equipment maker.

HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC's chief executive voiced optimism over the company's ability to meet challenging market conditions.

Avago Technologies believes a correction in inventories of industrial chips is bottoming out and expects more complicated smartphones to drive demand for its filters and power amplifiers, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday.