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At a time when Apple is widely rumored to launch its 7.85-inch iPad mini soon, new reports are suggesting that the device could also face supply constraints due to yield issues with several components.

As Facebook hits the 1-billion-member mark, it hopes to turn each user into an advertiser, whether they realize it or not.

"Assassin's Creed 3" will be released at the end of this month, and Ubisoft's newest trailer shows players Connor's past.

For just $199, you can be the owner of an iPhone 5, provided you have signed a two-year contract with the respective carrier. Ever wondered why and how the carrier can do that for you? Obviously, they know how to make their money back from you, the customer. The new iPhone can cost you at least $1,800 in 2 years of contract.

As file-sharing sites continue to come under attack from the RIAA, more music fans are using third party sites to convert the audio from YouTube to mp3 formats.

Skyrim PS3 players have eagerly awaited the release date for Dawnguard, but this may be a problem affecting future DLC launches on Sony's platform as well.

With the bigger screen and introduction of the in-cell touch technology, Apple indeed put some good effort to make the new iPhone 5 stand out from the crowd. But has it done enough to outclass rivals like the Samsung Galaxy S3? According to a new IHS iSuppli report, the sixth generation iPhone does lag behind the Galaxy S3 when it comes to the screen thinness and color gamut.

Sprint owners of Samsung's Galaxy S3 may not have to wait for the Android Jelly Bean release date. An unofficial version of the software had reportedly leaked on Tuesday.

Sony has recently announced its lineup of content for the month, which includes some free games and other deals for PlayStation Plus subscribers.

In a court filing Monday, South Korean tech giant Samsung added the latest iPhone 5 to an existing patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the device had infringed certain wireless and feature patents held by the company.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Monday announced its next generation business-class Windows 8 tablet, the HP ElitePad 900. Coming with enterprise-grade features, functionality and support, the new tablet will be available in the United States in January.

Apple issued a carrier update for the Verizon variant of the new iPhone 5 Sunday, which claimed to fix a bug that, in some cases, caused the device to use Verizon cellular data despite being connected to Wi-Fi network.

A little more than a week after its release, Apple’s latest Maps application for iOS 6 has been received so negatively by the tech world that the company even issued an apology for the app being inferior to Google Maps. And now Apple has removed a phrase on the company's website that had touted the app as the most "powerful” map app on the market.

Apple’s latest hit product, the iPhone 5, may be the cheapest new smartphone on the market in terms of energy costs, according to a recently released study. The cost of charging an iPhone 5 for an entire year? Only 41 cents.

If you have an iPhone 4, iPod touch, or below running iOS 6, you can now downgrade to iOS 5.1.1 using Redsn0w. However, you need to have your SHSH blobs (Signature HaSH blobs) saved for iOS 5.1.1 as Apple has stopped signing iOS 5.1.1.

A week after its worldwide release on major US carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint, Apple’s sixth generation iPhone, the iPhone 5, is now set to arrive on a number of regional carriers also, starting on Friday.

The release date for 'Assassin's Creed 3' is quickly approaching, and Ubisoft has released another trailer to give players a peek at upcoming gameplay.

Valve, the fiercely independent and eccentric Seattle-based game development studio that’s created some of the most celebrated brands in PC gaming including “Half Life” and the Steam platform, is facing another round of buyout reports, this time from the massively successful Korean video game giant Nexon (TYO:3659).

Chip manufacturer Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) Thursday announced the addition of two new Snapdragon S4 mobile processors -- “MSM8225Q” and “MSM8625Q”. Both the new processors are members of the Snapdragon S4 Play processor tier and are optimized specifically for high-volume smartphones.

The older process of unlocking an AT&T iPhone included filling out an online form, sending a fax to AT&T, waiting for almost a week and then restoring the device. But now you can do that by simply restoring the phone in iTunes and it will be unlocked.

Just how secure is your PIN number? According to the data security blog Data Genetics, much more vulnerable than you might think. The results show that obvious choices such as 1234 are extremely popular and wildly unsafe.

Apple made some critical changes to the product design and parts of the new iPhone 5, including the faster applications processor, the larger display and the high-speed 4G LTE air interface. However, the smartphone does exhibit a great deal of similarity to the iPhone 4S in terms of component suppliers, according to a new teardown report by IHS iSuppli Research.

In its quest to extend the life-span of its current-generation hardware, Sony Corp. (NSYE: SNE) has announced a new u “Day 1 Digital” program to offer competitive pricing for digital sales of new releases. The plan is part of a unique strategy Sony is deploying in the hopes it will keep the console gaming giant's products competitively priced well into the next generation of hardware.

In a bid to stay relevant in a world where mobile devices with new modern experiences are becoming the norm, Microsoft must take a big gamble over the next few months with Windows and Office, the two products responsible for most of its revenue and profit, says Gartner.

Many Android users are still waiting to get their hands on the Android Jelly Bean (4.1) that was released months before, with Google Nexus 7 as one of the first devices to ship with it. However, a new report says that Samsung has already started rolling out the Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S3.

Even though the Apple iPhone 5 had the biggest launch in the company’s history, not everybody is completely happy with the product. Most notably, Apple users lament the loss of the Google Maps app, calling Apple’s alternative inferior. To correct that, Apple appears to be recruiting ex-members of the Google Maps team.

The sixth generation Apple iPhone, the iPhone 5, went on sale only Friday, Sept. 21. But it seems that one of the talented iOS jailbreak developers is already in possession of jailbroken iPhone 5. Well-known iOS hacker Grant Paul, better known as “chpwn,” posted a couple of pictures on Twitter Friday that showed an iPhone 5 running iOS 6 with Cydia installed.

With the iPhone 5 launch mere hours away, die-hard fans across the world have taken to lining up outside Apple Stores in hopes of being among the very first users to own the new iPhone. Armed with sleeping bags, snacks, and, of course, older Apple products to entertain themselves, some have been waiting for days.