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The rumors that leaked were true: Barnes & Noble is releasing an 8GB model of the Nook Tablet to compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire. The new 8GB Nook Tablet is $199 and is available for purchase today. Barnes & Noble was fourth in tablet unit shipments during the last quarter of 2011. The company had 7 percent of fourth-quarter market share in unit shipments and sold 1.9 million units.

Astronaut John Glenn, marking the 50th anniversary on Monday of his historic flight as the first American to orbit the Earth, remembered it as the best day of his life.

Western investors in Japan's disgraced Olympus have accused its banks of trying to take control of the boardroom by stealth, amid growing signs that the firm's major creditors are considering installing their own appointees in the top jobs.

Apple Inc's trademark battle moves to one of China's richest cities on Wednesday when a Shanghai court will deliberate a request by troubled technology company Proview to halt the sale of iPads across the city.

OS X Mountain Lion has extended the functionality of its predecessor viz. Mac OS X Lion by adding over 100 new features to it. Gatekeeper is one of those news features and it provides a whole new security mechanism for Mac users.

Apple fans are expecting the tech giant to debut iPad 3 on March 7, or at least in the first week of March, if rumors are to be believed, but they could be in store for disappointment - Apple might delay the release of iPad 3 as iPad tablets have been banned in China over a bitter trademark dispute between the tech giant and Proview – a bankrupt Chinese company.

OS X Mountain Lion, which debuted last week, has drawn a lot of attention as the latest operating system aims at bridging the gap between Mac and iOS devices.

Millions of iPhones have been sold to date, and yet, no outsider knows that how these devices are made. Not until now, but things are going to change - the secret is going to be revealed on Tuesday edition of NightLine, a show on ABC News.

Jeremy Lin, the hot New York Knicks point guard and Internet sensation finally joined Facebook with Timeline-enabled profile on Monday.

The legal dispute between Apple and Proview over the iPad trademark is escalating and people can't help but wonder whether the issue will delay iPad 3's debut and destroy Apple's reputation.

Barnes & Noble is ready to debut a new 8GB Nook Tablet Feb. 22, and it could even come out at a lower price, but will it be enough to blow away the Amazon Kindle Fire? Kindle Fire is $50 less than the Nook Tablet, and it has more internal storage, but that's about to change when Walmart begins selling the eight gigabyte Nook Tablet Feb. 22, tech blog The Verge reported.

With the Ice Cream Sandwich update rolling out to Acer's Iconia Tab A200, tablet shoppers can now pick up a comparatively inexpensive 10-inch tablet with Google's newest mobile operating system.

Have you ever felt stressful after seeing that your almost-perfect shot has captured an unwanted object or person in it? If yes, you're in luck because there's a wonderful app that can save your time in solving this common photographic problem by removing unwanted object or person from a captured photo.

The futuristic warplanes and weapons, the Na'vis, the sentient extraterrestrial humanoids inhabiting the fictional moon Pandora in the movie 'Avatar's had to battle against, is set to become a reality, thanks to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which plans to make an army of 'Avatar'- style surrogate robots to reduce the dangers posed to military soldiers in the battlefield, featuring telepresence and remote operation of a ground system.

It was 50 years ago today that astronaut John Glenn left the earth in what would become on the most historic flights. Glenn's capsule, the Friendship 7, soared 162 miles from Cape Canaveral, Fla., into outer space.

Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration.

With Passover just a month away a new app aims to help consumers keep kosher throughout the eight-day Jewish festival and to stay up to date on kosher products throughout the rest of the year.

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.

America will celebrate President's Day, a day to honor the nation's greatest leaders, on Monday, but to many, it also means a day off from work and getting some of the best shopping deals of the year, even better than Black Friday sales.

Apple is believed to be weeks away from releasing the iPad 3, and amid the hype surrounding the next-generation tablet, a photo purporting to be of the new device has been leaked. It pictures a tablet with a Retina Display, an A6 chip and an 8-megapixel shooter.

Apple has promised to offer a $10,000 App Store gift card to the lucky person whose app download hits the 25th billion milestone.

It seems this earth is too small for the flock of angry birds whose goal in life is to destroy the greedy green pigs who stole their eggs. That's right, Angry Birds is all set to blast off into space and the date of their cosmic trip has been set for March 22..

The buzz around Apple’s new version of the hugely successful iPad (dubbed iPad 3), which is expected to be launched next month, have reached a fever pitch and, according to the latest report by MacRumors, iPad 3 is guaranteed to come with Retina Display. That’s great news for iPad fans – if the report turns out to be true. Meanwhile, here’s a rundown of other 5 new features we are certain iPad 3 will boast of.

Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

A British student, who hacked into Facebook's internal network risking disastrous consequences for the website, was jailed for eight months on Friday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of its kind they had seen.

Motorola Xoom and the Asus Transformer Prime are the only two tablets running the new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, so here's how they compare. Motorola's Xoom can be found for around $400 these days because it's been out for nearly a year, but the Prime is brand new, so it goes for $500 or more.

Apple iPad 3 will double the iPad 2 screen resolution it has been confirmed, but how sure can we be about other features the new tablet will launch with? A new iPad 3 display has been leaked, and a photograph of it under a microscope appears to show a pixel pattern that would double the amount of pixels per inch.

With the speculated release date of Apple's next generation tablet - dubbed iPad 3 - drawing near (iMore and AllThingsD are betting on an early March release while the Verge believes that iPad 3 could debut as early as Feb. 29), everybody must be wondering whether the iPad 3 will support 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution). Let's examine the possibility.

A grand total of $50 million in assets has been seized, and new charges were filed against the now-shuttered file-sharing Web site Megaupload, authorities said Feb. 17. In January, Megaupload and several of its affiliate Web sites were taken down, and several people connected to the sites arrested in New Zealand in one of the U.S.'s biggest ever criminal copyright infringement cases.