TECHNOLOGY

Apple Inc.'s next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, will be unveiled in hours in the United States, and is expected to break Apple's all previous launch-day sales records.

With a few hours left before Apple's grand iPhone event, rumors about an iPhone 4S seem to gain more credibility. It has been reported that Vodafone Germany has leaked two new iPhone models on its device listings - an iPhone 4 with 8 GB storage capacity and an iPhone 4S in data storage capacities of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, both devices alternatively in white and black.

The Apple Let's talk iPhone event is hours away and consumers are expecting the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone 5.

California-based technology giant Apple Inc. has rejected an offer from rivals, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co., that would have allowed the latter to release its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, according to Appleinsider.

With Apple Inc. having made the call for its Let's Talk iPhone event Tuesday, consumers are expecting the company to showcase its highly anticipated iPhone 5.

Some Android phones are believed to allow internet applications to access a user's information, such as their location or text messages. Who is at risk?

On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee joined the fight for user privacy on Facebook. Earlier last month, the Federal Trade Commission was urged by House members Ed Markey and Joe Barton to move forward with investigating the social media company for violating user privacy with browser cookies.

The iPhone 5 buzz is growing as Tuesday's Let's talk iPhone media event dawns, but till then we are only left guessing as to whether Apple will unveil an iPhone 5, iPhone 4S or both.

The iPhone 5 release frenzy has reached its zenith with barely hours left before Apple unveils the new gadget, but for the keener eye, the Tuesday event will be marked by how Apple lays out the iCloud and iOS 5. Many believe that being too engrossed with the specifications of upcoming iPhone 5 is equal to missing the wood for trees. The Tuesday event has more to do with Apple's long-term strategy than with gaining upper hand in the gadget market.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co denied on Tuesday that it was close to reaching a settlement with Apple over their tablet-computer patent dispute.

Economic troubles in the United States and Europe are making customers of Emerson Electric Co's data center management business reluctant to make big purchases as the company prepares to launch a major new platform.

Sprint Nextel Corp shares fell more than 10 percent after a report that it committed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones that would cost it about $20 billion in the next four years.

Synaptics Inc expects to return to revenue growth as the maker of touchpads for PCs shifts focus to touchscreen chips used in tablets and smartphones, its newly appointed CEO said.

Sprint Nextel Corp has agreed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years, involving a commitment of about $20 billion, whether or not its customers want to buy the devices, according to a Wall Street Journal story.

Two of the longest-running names in digital music, Rhapsody and Napster, are combining in a bid to grow market share and stay ahead of newer rivals like Spotify, Rdio and MOG.

Kindle Fire needs the Hewlett-Packard-owned operating system to compete with iPad.

Hewlett-Packard completed its $12 billion buy of British software firm Autonomy on Monday, the centerpiece of a botched strategy shift that cost ex-chief executive Leo Apotheker his job last month.

With less than a day to go before the next generation of iPhones are revealed a hoax email, though nothing more than a computer virus, has added to the hype through its depiction of a slightly slimmer see-through version of the iPhone 4.

With Apple's next iPhone announcement just a day away, experts and analysts make their last-minute predictions on what the world can expect to see come out of Cupertino tomorrow.

Oct 4. is the day we have all been waiting for - the Apple keynote event Let's Talk iPhone. This event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific time in Cupertino, CA, and 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Competitors are feeling the heat this week as Amazon's new Kindle Fire wowed consumers and undercut other tablets - in some cases, by hundreds of dollars. The Fire's low price point appears to be forcing down those of other tablets as well, with the HTC Flyer the second slated such product to be discounted at Best Buy this week.

Not all of Kindle Fire's specs have been released yet, but even without them, it could be the best tab yet.

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison unveiled new all-in-one data center products as the world's No.3 software maker steps up its move into the hardware market.

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.

A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday.

Apple will unveil a new iPhone on Tuesday that has been rumored to have several upgrades that will spark a 'phony war' to blow away all Android smartphones. But could there be something more stirring between the two? Could there actually be ... love?

Telecom operators hit out at a new European Union proposal that aims to spur investment in faster fiber optics networks by reducing profits generated on copper-based networks, saying it was wrongheaded and would actually stunt progress.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

As the Tesla Model S electric Sedan was unveiled in all its power and elegance last week, an even higher performing version of the car is expected to follow rumored to top the speed of the 2011 Porsche 911.