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Shares of Apple rose 4 percent after the company announced receiving more than one million orders for the iPhone 4S in a day, nearly 70 percent more than an older version.

Apple Inc.'s next-generation iPhone 4S is fast becoming the people's favorite smartphone. Apple, AT&T and Verizon have exhausted their pre-order supplies of the iPhone 4S, which will begin delivery on Oct. 14, according to media reports.

The American government used a controversial secret court order to obtain information on the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, from Google Inc. and small-time Internet Service Provider (ISP) Sonic.net Inc.

With its release awaiting on Nov. 11, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim generated some buzz as its world map was revealed.

The U.S. government obtained secret court orders to force Google Inc and a small Internet provider to hand over information from email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

It is clear for many of our members two Web sites would make things more difficult, CEO Reed Hastings posted on a blog overnight. So we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.

Apple's newly released iPhone 4S (the 16GB version) has reportedly been completely sold out on Apple's online store, at BestBuy and with service providers AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. What that means is that if you still want to boast of having the new iPhone on the actual day of the launch, you will either have to shell out more money and order the 32GB or the 64GB version or queue up in front of Apple stores across the country.

The problems and confusion for Netflix keep coming. Just weeks after the streaming video and DVD-by-mail company said it would spin off its DVD business into a new company called Qwikster Netflix has changed its mind. Netflix said Monday morning it has decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one company name and one Web site -- Netflix.

Jobs' statue is shown holding a product depicting Apple‘s logo. The sculpture sports a high-necked black Tee, which resembles that worn by Jobs, at his two most notable public appearances over the last two years.

Wireless carriers in the U.S., who are earning as much as 20 cents for sending and another 20 cents for receiving a text message, are worried that this profitable source of revenue will no longer be available to them, once Apple's new instant messaging application, iMessage, is released on Wednesday.

Notwithstanding sad prophecies of a big failure, Apple Inc. has hit yet another out-of-the-park home run with its new iPhone 4S, with AT&T reportedly rang the register on 200,000 pre-ordered models of the smartphone in just 12 hours. Reports said that the company that also serves as the carrier of the Samsung Galaxy S2 or S II is working with Apple to show 4G indicator in iPhone 4S status bar.

Following the release of Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet on Sept. 28, Jefferies believes Amazon will launch 10-inch device before the end of the year.

A Hong Kong design student's tribute to Steve Jobs that generated a buzz in cyberspace following the death of the co-founder of Apple last week is not original, the teenager said on Monday.

Subsequent to the introduction of the iPhone 4S by Apple, a number of observers have indicated that the iPhone 5 may not be launched until the 4G LTE technology is available for compact smartphones.

iPhone 4S sales did not take a cue from Apple shares in the aftermath of the death of Steve Jobs. Apple Inc. has been expected to fare badly when Jobs finally disappeared, but the latest iProduct that Jobs lived to see defied gloomy predictions and is now emerging as probably the greatest of 'em all in terms of sales.

At a time when rumors are rife that Google and Samsung's imminent smartphone Nexus Prime or Galaxy Nexus is going to be launched on Oct. 27 after its scheduled launch on Tuesday got postponed, new reports have emerged stating that it has passed through the FCC earning approval for a world capable version.

T-Mobile USA, which was selling 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, the G-Slate and Dell streak earlier, has announced two new Android tabs with Huawei Springboard with Google, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.3 handset maker, on Monday launched a new smartphone that runs on South Korea's fast, fourth-generation network, in the company's latest attempt to rescue its loss-making handset business.

We all know that Albert Einstein, considered the smartest man to have ever lived on earth was asked by a teacher to drop out of grade school. Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs, had a similar story.

As reports that Sony Pictures is buying the rights to the biopic on the life of Steve Jobs, the former co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, surface, entertainment pundits have started to speculate on the actor who could be picked to play the iConinc man. In addition, there are also discussions on the possible title of the film.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it had delayed the launch of a new smartphone based on Google's latest version of the Android operating system while the world pays tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who died last week.

Steve Jobs' posthumously released biography, now available for pre-order has become a chartbuster on online bookstores. Author Walter Isaacson spent over two years conducting forty exclusive and unprecedented interviews with Jobs and over hundred of his family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues for the book which chronicles rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur.

The iPhone 4S, which was labelled to be a flop phone by many, has shattered all preorder records of previous iPhone.

Global mourning and remembrance of Apple's co-founder and long-time CEO continues days after Steve Jobs died at the age of 56, and most have been quick to highlight the genius, innovation and complexity -- if not difficulty -- that Jobs thrust upon the world. A detailed book about his life that Jobs co-operated with is due out in two weeks, and already it has climbed to number one at both Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's online stores through pre-sales.

CERN's LHSee, a Large Hadron Collider app, let's Android users hunt the Higgs Boson on mobile technology — all from the palm of their hands or a tablet computer.

Google Inc. has decided to delay releasing the Nexus Prime, which was set for Tuesday during the Samsung Mobile Unpacked event, opting for a rumored Oct. 27 release date instead.

A never-before-seen video tribute to Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs for his 30th birthday was uploaded to YouTube on Oct. 6, one day after he died. The video tribute, reportedly created by his Apple coworkers, was done long before there was the iPhone 4S (or any iPhone for that matter), before the iPod and also before there was an iPad. At the time there was the Macintosh computer, which revolutionized personal computing.

The shipping estimate for Apple’s new iPhone 4S indicates that customers pre-ordered the new smartphone can expect their devices to be shipped from one to two weeks.

Recently announced by Apple, the iPhone 4S will be launched within the next two weeks, while Samsung launched its Galaxy S2 in U.S. markets sometime in the middle of September. The Motorola Droid Bionic was also released around the same time. Here is a comparison of the three phones - on the basis of specs, features and price.