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With a slew of Android phones set to hit market, why is Apple apparently passing up WWDC platform to announce iPhone 5? Also why is it not dealing a sucker punch to Android by announcing superior features iPhone fans have been waiting for? A slew of Android devices slated to hit market this summer have superior features like 4G, NFC and ultra-high resolution cameras.

View some of the never-before-seen pictures of Titanic before it sank, the shipwreck and more.

NASA space shuttle Atlantis is at the Launch Pad 39A, getting ready for its targeted July 8 launch to the International Space Station, which will close 30 years of space shuttle program.

Acer Inc, the world No 2 PC maker, will launch an ultrabook super-light computer model in the fourth quarter, its president said on Wednesday, and sees devices such as tablets and smartphones making up a third of revenue by 2015.

NASA has rolled its fourth space-rated space shuttle, OV-104 Atlantis, to launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a three-mile trip, ahead of her July 8 mission to the International Space Station.

There is a swirl of rumors in tech circles about when iPhone 5 will be released. The chaos worsens when iPhone 4 S comes into picture as well. Rumors being what they are, no date is conclusive. However, it would be useful to find out what the 'median forecast' is like when it comes to iPhone launches.

Google's mysterious social project is finally materializing in the form of its new offering Google +1. Techcrunch first broke the news of Google +1 launch which is expected tomorrow, after accessing the information through a Google affiliate agency. The new feature will render a personal aura to your Google searches by showing up results from sources that you know and trust.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will shake off medical leave slumber to appear at the Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC 2011) in San Francisco on June 6 to unveil the latest version of Mac OS X, or the Lion, and the iCloud Music streaming service. The confirmation by Apple that Jobs will make the keynote address on the opening day of WWDC 2011 brought cheer to millions of Apple investors.

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs leaps back into the spotlight next week to showcase the iPad maker's latest software and is widely expected to unveil an online music storage and streaming service.

Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who spent months on medical leave, will open an annual developers' conference next week showcasing the iPad maker's latest computer software and a new cloud computing service.

On May 31, 1911, about a hundred years ago, RMS Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world owned by the White Star Line and constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, was launched into the waters of Victoria Channel in Belfast Harbor.

If rumors are to be believed, the next generation Apple iPhone will have a SIM-less design, an 8 mega pixel camera and an ARM Cortex-A9 processor. And its release date is round the corner, probably by end of July or early August! Earlier, a series of image leaks and source-based reports had ‘revealed’ a slew of possible next generation iPhone features. While none is confirmed, a lot fall into the 'possible or probable' category.

The launch date of the fancied Apple iPhone 5 has once again become the hobby horse of gadget lovers and tech websites with a website called Macotakara reporting that the next generation iPhone will see light of the day only in the Spring of 2012 while the iPhone 4 S will be released in July or August.

If Twitter goes ahead and launches its photo sharing service, it will get into the core of Facebook's advantages, and soon the existing rivalry between 'likes' and 'tweets' can assume another dimension. It remains to be seen when Twitter launches this long overdue service and, whether this will protect the microblogging site against the marauding onslaught of Facebook.

Endeavour is set to make its final return voyage to Earth.

As Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) is fast approaching, tech observers and websites are shrugging off earlier predictions that there won't be a new iPhone launch at the conference. Now they think iPhone 4S could be launched at the developers' conference.

Images from the Endeavour space shuttle mission.

Steve Ballmer is wrong. Windows 8 will not be released in 2012, and when the next version is released, it may not be called Windows 8, after all.

ZTE Corp, China's No.2 network equipment maker, plans to launch LTE devices in the United States along with smartphones based on Microsoft's Mango operating system to expand its U.S. footprint.

Sony is still reeling from April's cyber attack on its PlayStation Network, announcing today that it will need until the end of the month to get its online store component functional again.

ZTE Corp, China's No.2 network equipment maker, plans to launch smartphones based on Microsoft Corp's Mango operating system in Europe in the third quarter of this year, executives said.