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Hackers collective Anonymous will reportedly take down world's No.1 social network site Facebook on Jan. 28, according to a YouTube video. However, many people doubt whether that will happen.

The tech giant Apple has reportedly burned $100 million against HTC in the first round of the legal battle between them, Newsweek columnist Dan Lyons wrote, Monday, on his blog.

T-Mobile has a couple of deals right now on new Microsoft powered smartphones, and the Nokia Lumia 710 and HTC Radar 4G are both $50 if you meet the requirements. First, the prices are dependent on buying a new two-year contract, but that is usually the case for on-contract devices. The new Nokia Lumia 710 is $50 after a mail-in rebate, so if you go buy one, you'll have to throw down $100 and wait for the rebate.

Samsung, LG, HTC and other smartphone makers are set to deliver their next-generation quad-core devices at Mobile World Congress in about a month. Some of the phones to be announced have been teased (like the Galaxy S3), while others are being hidden away without much detail coming out. At least one maker, Fujitsu, even showed off their new phone at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

Kim Doctom, the founder of now defunct file-sharing and online storage site Megaupload, was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, even as he denied charges of Internet piracy and money laundering.

No Chinese festival can compare with the Lunar New Year. The Chinese new year celebrations officially began on Monday and millions of Chinese worldwide welcomed the year of the dragon by kicking off the Spring Festival, which will continue for about two weeks until the Lantern Festival on February 6.

2012 is the year of the Dragon in the Chinese calender, and because dragons are awesome, here are the 10 most downloaded apps for Chinese New Year. As in Western cultures, the Chinese celebrate new years in a traditional way with red envelope gifts and visits to relatives. This year, many new year's revelers celebrate with fireworks, eating foods thought to bring good health and good luck, and even traditional dancers

The sudden crackdown on popular online storage and file-sharing site Megaupload has prompted rivals FileSonic and uploaded.to to commit suicide by voluntarily limiting their file-sharing services and allowing users to only retrieve the files they have personally uploaded. No wonder, the U.S. feds' action has left everybody wondering whether other sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire, Dropbox, etc., which offer file-sharing and cloud storage services, will be next in the crosshairs of anti-piracy ...

Amid the fuss over crackdown on Megaupload, a rival file-sharing service provider FileSonic has voluntarily halted its service partially.

A full-size, complete first edition of John James Audubon's "The Birds of America" sold for $7.9 million at auction on Friday in New York to a private American collector, Christie's said.

A huge pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean is expanding and could lower the temperature of Europe by causing an ocean current to slow down, British scientists said Sunday.

When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.

This is not the first time Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom had his brush with the law. In 2002, he was convicted in what was then the largest insider-trading case in German history and a Munich court sentenced him to 20 months probation and a 100,000 euro fine. Can he win the legal battle this time?

Chipmaker Intel Corp said it has agreed to buy networking products maker QLogic Corp's InfiniBand assets for $125 million in cash to strengthen its networking and high-performance computing capabilities.

YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.

Takeover talk swirled around Research In Motion on Monday as investors and analysts pondered whether new Chief Executive Thorsten Heins had been appointed to lead a turnaround of the struggling smartphone maker or prepare it for sale.

If you look at the back of any iPhone, you're likely to come across the words, Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. Indeed, from the very first generation iPhone to the latest iPhone 4S, the world's most popular smartphone have come to be made in China and not in the U.S. An analysis, based on interviews with Apple's former and current executives and employees at Apple's supply chains and manufacturing experts by The New York Times, has now revealed why the wo...

iPhone 5 fever is picking up as we inch closer to the Mobile World Congress in Spain in February where many new smartphones are set to debut, including the Samsung Galaxy S3. That's because nothing in the consumer tech world generates as much buzz as new Apple iPads or iPhones.

After Megaupload, one of the world's leading file-sharing Web sites, was shut down by the U.S. government, its founder Kim Dotcom and three associates were also arrested and charged with several felonies, including racketeering, money laundering, copyright infringement and more. If convicted , they could face up to 50 years in prison.

The iPhone Dev-Team has brought a good news for Windows users, by releasing a CLI tool update - CLI 0.4.3 that helps Windows users jailbreak their iPhone 4S or iPad 2 with Absinthe and making the -j jailbreak option much more functional.

The prospect that MS Windows Phone will beat Apple's iPhone in year 2015 has emerged. According to industry research firm IHS iSuppli, Windows Phone will increase its market share of smartphone operating system up to 16.7 % in 2015. Though Windows Phone has only 1.9% market share in year 2011, it will increase its market share gradually to 9% in 2012, 15.3% in 2013, 16.1% in 2014 and 16.7% in 2015.

The U.S. Congress has decided to put Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA or SOPA's counterpart in the Senate) on indefinite hold, following a flood of protest against the two controversial anti-piracy bills. The Web giants have won the first round in this Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley battle. But will the Hollywood giants keep quiet or will it stage a comeback?

Samsung's Galaxy S3 should make some significant improvements over the Galaxy S2, but the difference will mostly be on the inside as a radical physical redesign is unlikely. In fact, there has been speculation that one particular device seen in a Samsung promotional video during the Consumer Electronics Show was the Galaxy S3.

Acer debuted the Iconia Tab A510 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, and the 10-inch device is of the quad-core system variety, but it should debut for a few dollars less than the iPad 3.

Amazon.com Inc is setting up its first fulfillment center in India as the world's largest Internet retailer tries to break into the world's second most-populous nation.

In the summer of 2007, Apple's Steve Jobs received a note from then-Palm chief executive Ed Colligan, according to correspondence revealed in a lawsuit over employee poaching.

While IBM's rivals have suffered through earnings misses, massive executive upheaval or seismic strategic shifts, Big Blue has been the technology world's most consistently performing company since narrowly avoiding bankruptcy 19 years ago.

The dream team did not frustrate their fans as the hacker team on Friday released Absinthe - the A5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2, and in the same day they updated Absinthe to version 0.1.2-2 to fix some bugs.

Siri, the virtual intelligent assistant exclusive to iPhone 4S, will be improved and packed into most future Apple devices, if not all. Predictably, the voice-controlled technology might become a core part of the Apple brand.