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Recently-granted patents suggest Apple will implement a near-field communication (NFC) chip into its sixth-generation iPhone -- presumably called the iPhone 5 -- but in addition to sending and receiving payments from customers to merchants, Apple will also reportedly use this chip to send and receive gifts from one iPhone to another.

South Korean smartphone maker Samsung Electronics is planning to incorporate the designs and features of their much hyped next generation phone - Samsung Galaxy S3 - in a Windows 8 version, reports Windows Phone Life.

While the lineup of next-gen consoles including Sony's PlayStation 4 Orbis, Microsoft's Xbox 720 and Nintendo's Wii U are still not near their launch time frame. However, their predecessor flagship model's favorite games are surely in line up with their sequel releases for this year.

After reporting record profit for the first quarter of 2012, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has achieved yet another outstanding feat. The company has become the world's number one handset vendor, thereby ending Finnish firm Nokia's 14-year run as the global leader, according to a latest research from Strategy Analytics.

Nintendo revolutionized the gaming industry with its Wii console, which was the first commercial gaming device to incorporate motion-censored controls heavily into gaming. However, strong price cuts made to the Wii and the 3DS hand held video game device have lead the company to post its first annual loss in more than three decades, according to the Wall Street Journal.

At a Groupon staff meeting held yesterday, CEO Andrew Mason had all-hands on deck to talk about how he believes that, since the company went public, it has been making an ass out of itself. While Mason may have been referring to the embarrassing restatement of its first quarterly results, staffers and business insiders are now looking at Mason himself as the root of the problem.

On Tuesday, Google made its cloud storage service Google Drive official, but what has created much buzz around the web is the combination of the service's privacy policy and the company's recently unified terms of service and privacy policy. Yes, there seems to be no specific privacy policy for Google Drive as such.

Forget rumors, this has come straight from the horse's mouth. Samsung's upcoming Galaxy smartphone, aka Galaxy S3, is all set to get Exynos 4 Quad boost up, the South Korean tech giant revealed Wednesday.

Three military representatives close to the coup that toppled Mali's democratically-elected government gained key security position in new government.

CISPA sponsors are realizing the bill is a major threat to Internet privacy akin to SOPA, apparently in response to a groundswell of opposition from across the world.

Google has finally launched its first cloud storage aka Google Drive on Tuesday. the service offers 5GB space to play with for free, with options to pay $2.49 / month for 25GB additional space, $5 / month for 100GB and $50 / month for a full terabyte of extra space. can it beat Dropbox or Microsoft's SkyDrive?

Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company backed by filmmaker James Cameron and other well-know investors, was officially announced on Tuesday, with plans to launch exploratory spacecraft over the next two years to hunt for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals from Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) a few years after that.

Google entered the world of cloud computing on April 24, announcing the release of Google Drive. The service, much like that of Dropbox, Apple's iCloud and Microsoft's SkyDrive, gives users 5GB of free remote storage and additional space for a monthly fee.

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, reported second-quarter financial results that blew past analyst expectations.

Assuming the $77 billion initial public offering by Facebook is approved, investors will likely clamor for shares just as in earlier web frenzies for Netscape Communications, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG).. But dangers loom.

LANDesk Software, the venerable desktop management systems developer, said it had acquired private Managed Planet to bolster its play into ‘’Big Data” and analytics.

The all new Google Drive is out now. Watch the video. The recent newsbreak comes by the French translation of new cloud storage announcement to its French blog (which is now deleted) has confirmed details on the new Google Drive.

Microsoft and Facebook announced a definitive agreement on Monday, under which Microsoft will assign to Facebook the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio it recently agreed to acquire from AOL Inc.Facebook has agreed to purchase this portion for $550 million in cash.

the biggest competitor to Google in the web browser market share is planning to come to come with a smartphone now, to throw a new challenge for the software multinational in the category of operating system for mobile devices. Yes, here we are talking about Mozilla.

Microsoft infringed Motorola Mobility's patents in making its popular Xbox gaming consoles, a judge for the International Trade Commission ruled on Monday.

Microsoft purchased Skype last year, and has since released a version of the widely-perceived video phone call service for its Windows Phone devices. However, the newly developed app that just made its way out of beta this weekend seems to endure some crucial flaws according to critics.