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Apple’s next generation iPhone is in the news again, and this time, the rumor is all about the release date. According to Macotakara, a Japanese blog, the next generation iPhone, which is likely to be called the iPhone 5, is expected to be released sometime in October 2012, which is not in line with Apple’s traditional release date of the iPhone.

ASUS has made an over the air update for Ice Cream Sandwich ready for the Eee Pad Transformer Feb. 24, but 3G-enabled models will have to wait. The update is for the Wi-Fi models, and Transformer owners in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the UK all should have access to the new Google Android system. Asus now has two tablets running the new system, and the Motorola Xoom is still the only other tablet out there running the 4.0 update. As to why Asus is the lucky company to be getting the updates so ...

Russian Scientists have successfully grown fruit from 30,000 year old frozen Siberian seeds found buried along the banks of the Kolyma river, a study published in a new issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reported.

Sprint is selling the normally $100 priced Motorola Photon 4G for $50 on its Web site, the discounted iPhone 3GS is only one dollar from AT&T, and T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 710 is just $40 (online price). If your smartphone shopping on a budget, or if you need to add a new line to your current contract, these might be the best choices for you. They are all quite different, besides being offered on different carriers. But for the price, they are tough to beat, especially the Photon 4G because it ...

Verizon dropped the price of the HTC Rezound to $99 on contract recently, and it's now the same price as the iPhone 4. The best Verizon smartphone deal can be found here, but it depends on what you're looking for in a new phone. Even though both of these devices cost much less than Verizon's flagship class of $300 phones, they are great choices with excellent features. In fact, the Rezound only debuted at the end of 2011, and it was originally $300.

The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work.

Neutrinos which appeared to have undermined a basic law of the universe by exceeding the speed of light might have done so even faster than first thought - or might not have done it at all, physicists in Italy said on Thursday.

The World Bank announced on Friday a global alliance to better manage and protect the world's oceans, which are under threat from over-fishing, pollution and climate change.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co fell more than 7 percent Thursday, after the world's No. 1 computer maker posted a sharp decline in quarterly earnings and warned it would take several years to turn around its sprawling businesses.

A Chinese firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses it of employing deception when it bought the trademark.

The actual release date of Apple's next generation smartphone, dubbed iPhone 5, could be months away but a lovely teardrop-shaped mockup of the holy grail by Ciccarese Design makes us want iPhone 5 now.

Apple hasn’t yet confirmed whether iPad 3 is real or a myth. The tech giant also hasn’t officially announced the release date of its next generation tablet. But Apple watchers believe that iPad 3 is mere weeks away from revealing itself to the world. The rumor mills have even declared that March 7 is the holy date when Apple will introduce the holy grail to the iFans at a media event in San Francisco.

The long awaited BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is finally out. RIM released PlayBook last year and PlayBook OS 2.0 is the first software update for the tablet, coming out after almost one year later. The original plans of RIM were to release PlayBook OS 2.0 in December 2011. RIM is already two months behind on the original schedule.

Earlier in February, the media reported that the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy thousands of Apple iPad tablets to replace the conventional flight bags carried by pilots. Nobody knows the exact number of iPads, the U.S. Air Force wanted to buy. Some say that the figure is 3,000. But to replace the flight bag of all the pilots in U.S. Air Force, 18,000 is still a small figure. That means a big business for Apple.

Amazon's Kindle Fire or RIM's Blackberry Playbook? Undoubtedly both the tablets are well-designed with lot of apps. They are 7-inch in size and have the multi-touch display. Both have dual core processors. And users of both tablets can access loads of content too.

Facebook admitted to tracking users who weren't even on the Web site last September, and a Baltimore based law firm has now filed a class action lawsuit in a Northern California District court. It's not the first lawsuit filed against Facebook over privacy concerns, but it's the first nationwide class action suit that potentially involves anyone who was a member before Facebook changed their privacy policy. The thrust of the lawsuit filed by Murphy PA, Peter G. Angelos and Gerard Gibbs ...

iPhone 5 could appear in the T-Mobile arsenal in 2013 if indeed Apple's newest handset does include 4G LTE support. There is little evidence iPhone 5 will have 4G capability, but since the iPad 3 is set to debut with the technology, it's logical the next iPhone would have it too. That's actually the easy part because T-Mobile doesn't want to spend the nearly $40 billion Sprint spent near the end of 2011 for the rights to sell the iPhone on contract. T-Mobile will be using that money ...

iPhone users know well how useful the Flickr Web site has been over the years, but while the site hasn't changed much, a new redesign will add features like the Uploadr and Justified View. Uploadr allows batch loading of photos from a computer just by dragging and dropping onto the Filckr page. The new design and other features are part a new look for Flickr, and the result will be a bit like the Google+ photo page layout. Flickr will finally redesign its Web site starting Feb. 28, just as ne...

OnLive, a company known for streaming games, has released a new iPad app that can run the Windows OS at lightning-fast speeds, something the purportedly 4G LTE-enabled iPad 3 could turn into an unstoppable combination. The OnLive Desktop app uses cloud based technology to shrink down the Windows environment into a usable size for the iPad (Android, Macs and PCs too, eventually).

Mobile chipset maker Qualcomm has unveiled its fifth generation Gobi platform based on its Gobi 4G LTE wireless baseband modems - MDM9615 and MDM9215 - that will support LTE, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA and TDD networks, triggering speculations that iPad 3 (and even iPhone 5) will debut with 4G LTE option.

The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now the lab behind it says the result could have been caused by a loose cable.

Physicists are to run new tests in May after the CERN research institute said on Thursday that its startling findings appearing to show that one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong could have been caused by a loose cable.

OnLive, which was in the news recently for bringing Microsoft Windows to iPad, has now succeeded in delighting iPad users once again – this time by introducing OnLive Desktop Plus, which offers full-blown Windows applications and an ultra-fast Web browser with full Adobe Flash support.

Finding Nemo is about to get a lot easier with the launch of a scientific survey that will allow anyone with access to the internet to take a virtual tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Rumors are flying thick and fast about the possible features of Apple’s next generation tablet, dubbed iPad 3, and if the new tablet debuts on March 7, as rumored, in a ‘media event’ in San Francisco, it could possibly ring the death knell of rival tablets like Amazon Kindle Fire and BlackBerry PlayBook.

Qualcomm has released its fifth generation Gobi platform for mobile baseband, promising 4G LTE option in the forthcoming iPad 3 and iPhone 5.

U.S. President Barack Obama could not hide his singing talent as he loosened his collar and joined Blues greats BB King and Buddy Guy in singing a few lines from 'Sweet Home Chicago' at a White House blues performance on Tuesday, called Red, White & Blues.

A YouTube video of an LED suit-clad night snowboarder has gone viral with the ghostlike figure garnering nearly one million views in just a few days. Fashion photographer Jacob Sutton put this unique video together in the French Alps, and the unique suit was made by electronics designer John Spatcher.

Mobile phone texting turns 20 years old in 2012, and because the technology was developed first for GSM network mobile communications in the early 1980's, it's widely given credit to have been birthed by German engineer Friedham Hillebrand. Nokia, the worlds largest mobile phone manufacturer, posted on its Connect blog Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen invented the idea for SMS (short message service).