TECHNOLOGY

The iPhone 4S doesn't seem to have half as much charm as it should have had; the iPhone 5, it seemed, was what all the buzz should have been about! However, if that was the case, then what was the overcrowding outside stores all about?

Apple confirmed sales exceeding 4 million iPhone 4S since Friday, setting a new record for a product launch.

Apple Inc. has long denied the possibility of a 7-inch iPad to counter Android-based tablets tormenting the Cupertino-based tech giant with their low prices.

Apple's Siri is a fantastic new AI application, but it unfortunately can't write tweets. Thankfully, there's a simply workaround for that, and it just takes six easy steps.

Apple's legendary co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, is gone. However, the very last project that the gadget wizard worked on is yet to make its appearance. According to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, it is the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple would like to call it) that Steve Jobs was intimately involved with from concept to final design.

Stung by its three-day e-mail outage last week, BlackBerry developer Research in Motion announced a dozen free apps will be available to customers through Dec. 31.

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.

The patent war continues.

Philips Electronics has all but abandoned hope of selling its TV business by the end of the year, leaving a question mark over how quickly it can divest its loss-making problem child.

The battle between high-end smartphones got hotter still after the iPhone 4S became available in stores on Friday. While the iPhone 4S is not the iPhone 5 that was forecast by rumor mills, it is certainly not a lesser device. The phone has significant hardware upgrades even though it looks identical to the iPhone 4.

With the tethered jailbreak, the user needs to reconnect the device to a Windows or Mac computer each time it needs to be booted. But an untethered jailbreak allows the device to be powered without computer assistance. So what about an untethered jailbreak for the iOS 5? Reports said an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak in the making.

There were rumors that Apple Inc. has sold 4 million units of iPhone 4S during the weekend but officially it is known that pre-orders reached 1 million mark.

South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co., which has so far been on the defensive in its ongoing patent battle with Apple Inc., has finally launched an attack of its own on its Cupertino-based rival.

Shares in Olympus Corp plunged by a quarter on Monday after media reports quoted its ousted chief executive of accusing the board of firing him for probing allegations of improper payments related to acquisitions.

Google Voice has been removed from Apple’s App Store, keeping in mind the application’s propensity to crash, when used on Apple's new operating system - the iOS 5.

Recent reports have revealed that the new schedule for the event that will introduce the Ice Cream Sandwich Android and the Samsung Nexus Prime will be on Oct. 19. The venue for the launch event will reportedly be Hong Kong.

A new mobile app enables travelers to plan trips with a little help from their friends.

Though Apple Inc. claims the new iPhone 4S' unlocked version will hit the stores only in November, reports suggest a contract-free iOS 5-powered device is already on sale.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Monday that it has filed preliminary injunction motions in Australia and Japan requesting the courts stop the sale of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone 4S in an escalating legal battle between the two technology giants.

Apple’s iPhone 4S, which released on Friday instead of an iPhone 5 nudged away most of the speculations developed around it for a while.

The U.S. wireless industry is rolling out more consumer-friendly billing practices, fending off a plan by communications regulators to impose new rules against unexpected charges.

Sesame Street's YouTube page was disfigured with porn by hackers on Sunday.

Philips Electronics said it was considering its options should the sale of its TV business collapse as it reported plummeting third-quarter profits and little hope of a material improvement in the near term.

If rumors are to be believed, the countdown for the much-anticipated Motorola Droid RAZR has already started.

Samsung has filed suits against Apple in Japan and Australia to stop sales of iPhone 4S, adding to similar complaints in France and Italy.

Amid tight security and an elite gathering, Apple Inc.'s late co-founder', Steve Jobs', memorial was held on Sunday evening, at the Memorial Church on Stanford University.

AMSTERDAM, Oct 17 - Philips Electronics said it will cut 4,500 jobs as it reported an 85 percent slump in third-quarter net profit on higher restructuring and raw material costs.

Silicon Valley luminaries, politicians and celebrities were among the several hundred people at a private memorial service for late Apple Inc co-founder and tech visionary Steve Jobs on Sunday.

Google has decided to kill Google Buzz, the social messaging platform, according to its blog post last week.