TECHNOLOGY

Apple's iOS 5, unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) the week by Steve Jobs, will feature the capability to play high resolution 1080p video content on iPad 2. What this means by extension is that the next generation iPhone will also sport this feature. iOS 4 hadn’t given iPhone and iPad users the 1080p playback facility -- they only had the 720p playback. Users could not even sync 1080p content to iOS devices through iTunes. Now that will change with the arrival of iOS 5.

The Les Paul Google Doodle may be the sickest doodle to date. In honor for what would have been legendary electric guitarist Les Paul's 96th birthday, Google rolled out an interactive electric guitar.

Cupertino mayor says there is no way Apple's headquarters isn't staying in his city.

Apple Inc handed a big victory to publishers by dropping demands they sell subscriptions through its App Store, a rare reversal for the iPad maker.

Sprint Nextel, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider, plans to launch two Motorola Mobility smartphones this summer, opening up a new market for Motorola, which has been absent from Sprint's high-end phone line up until now.

Private equity-backed Avaya Holdings Corp, a telecom equipment maker, on Thursday became the latest in a rush of IPOs and filings by technology sector companies.

Shares of Fusion-io Inc, which makes storage memory hardware and software for data centers, soared 34 percent in their market debut, as the rush to snap up technology start-ups showed no signs of waning.

For the last year, we've seen the Blackberry and Android tablets and heard rumors of an armada of other tablets preparing to blow the iPad out of the water, but the ones that managed to make it to the market have fallen short due to a number of reasons.

Apple on Thursday handed a big victory to publishers by dropping demands they sell subscriptions through its App Store, a rare reversal for the iPad makers.

The communications regulator has been oddly slow in unleashing new powers to police the Internet, six months after finalizing the controversial rules.

Even investors who see value in beaten down stocks perceive little opportunity in the sinking shares of phone maker Nokia .

Citibank becomes the latest victim in the large-scale corporation hacking trend of 2011.

Finally, Google 'Chromebook' will be available to purchase on Amazon and BestBuy. It is still on pre-order stage in the United States. From 15th June, it will be begin shipping.

Hewlett-Packard is set to enter the tablet race and compete with Apple's iPad by the official arrival of its TouchPad on July 1 in the United States.

Hewlett-Packard's iPad competitor is set to hit the market in the beginning of July.

Hewlett Packard Co will begin selling its TouchPad on July 1 in the United States for $499.99, debuting the first tablet computer powered by Palm's operating software.

Wall Street turned back a six-day losing streak on Thursday, with the Dow and the S&P 500 bouncing up 1 percent, after data on U.S. exports eased concerns about a stalled economic recovery that had weighed on the market for days.

Videogames are becoming kinder and gentler as women and older players seek pleasure in a pastime long dominated by teenage boys hell-bent on winning wars in fantasy worlds.

Sprint Nextel plans to sell a high-speed wireless phone from Motorola Mobility , the Photon 4G, this summer, the U.S. mobile device maker's first to be based on the carrier's new WiMax technology.

Research In Motion is in danger of failing to capitalize on market share losses at rival Nokia by choosing to launch products later-than-expected, said Citigroup, which downgraded its rating on the stock to hold from buy.

Apple's latest addition to its ecosystem, the iCloud storage service that will provide storage space that can be accessed from Apple products, is not as revolutionary as it seems.

Deliveries of smartphones like Apple's iPhone are expected to increase 55 percent this year, four times as fast as the wider phone market, IT research firm IDC said.

LulzSec now has 100,000 followers on Twitter. That’s pretty fast for a group that only gained notoriety after May 30 when it placed a phony story of Tupac being a live on PBS.

Samsung Infuse 4G display screen to be matched by HTC Holiday, improving other specifications.

U.S. chipmaker Intel announced multi-million investments in two Russian online firms on Thursday, in a fresh sign of investor confidence in growth prospects of internet businesses.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Thursday after six days of losses as a narrowed U.S. trade deficit was seen as one positive point in a recent avalanche of weak economic data.

Nokia said its technology chief was on indefinite leave after a media report of strategy disagreements, and a second credit agency cut its rating in another blow for the stricken phone maker.

Banking giant Citibank has confirmed that credit card data of about 200,000 North American customers have been hacked, the latest in a string of cyber attacks.

By coming up with arguably the best ever Doodle -- guitar chords on Google homepage -- search engine giant honored the American jazz and country guitarist Les Paul on what would have been his 96th birthday on Thursday.