Balasubramanyam Seshan

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Datalink, Mellanox Technologies, Zhongpin, Trimeris, and Allos Therapeutics. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Forward Air, Seagate Technology, MKS Instruments, F5 Networks, Tractor Supply, The Cheesecake Factory, and Qualcomm.

The distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto has been hiding its fourth moon -- temporarily designated P4 -- that came to the view of NASA astronomers who were using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Oncothyreon, BigBand Networks, Cirrus Logic, Allos Therapeutics, and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Riverbed Technology, Citi Trends, Fortinet, Aixtron, and F5 Networks.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Manhattan Associates, Cintas, Swisher Hygiene, Infinera, and Apple. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Riverbed Technology, Fortinet, F5 Networks, Hansen Natural, and Synthesis Energy Systems.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Asia Entertainment & Resources, Google, Sino Clean Energy, Vical, and Carrizo Oil & Gas. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Seattle Genetics, Qlik Technologies, Logitech International, ICAgen, and Corinthian Colleges.

Apple Inc. is expected to release new MacBook Air next week that will be powered by Mac OS X Lion operating system, along with the iPhone 5, new iPod, iPad 3 later this year in an effort to update entire product lines.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Google, Vical, Asia Entertainment & Resources, Extreme Networks, and Resources Connection. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: FLIR Systems, Life Partners Holdings, Seattle Genetics, Shengkai Innovations, and Xyratex.

The U.S. market is still waiting for the arrival of Samsung Galaxy S2, which is gaining credibility and good reviews from other parts of the world. So Apple Inc.'s most-expected iPhone 5 will be facing the Samsung phone in smartphone battle.

Apple Inc. is gearing up its production of iPhone 5 for a possible September launch, but new rumors have surfaced expecting a mid-August launch.

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) touched a new life-time high of $304.79 on Wednesday after the online movie rental major jacked up its prices for DVD and streaming services. Though the subscribers blasted Netflix for raising its prices, investors welcomed the move as it will help save the company millions of dollars in streaming costs.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) said it has planned a new tablet HP TouchPad 4G that will be available exclusively in the United States on AT&T. The current version of TouchPad is a Wi-Fi one and sold at $499.99 for a 16GB version and $599.99 for a 32GB version.

Ten people were killed and several wounded in a serial bomb blasts in India's financial hub when three powerful bombs exploded late Wednesday at Opera House in south Mumbai, a temple behind Dadri and the third one at densely populated Zaveri Bazar.

Netflix Inc. announced significant price increases by separating unlimited streaming plus unlimited DVD plans into separate packages, and hiking the price of the DVD plans.

Apart from Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5, the most expected Android smartphones are Samsung Galaxy S2, Motorola Droid Bionic and HTC Thunderbolt 4G. So which is the best Android smartphone that will emerge the winner in the United States?

Just recently Apple Inc. filed another suit against smaller rival HTC for patent infringement claiming to ban sales of the competing smartphones and tablets. But how is HTC's new Flyer tablet EVO View 4G similar to Apple iPad?

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has longer-term disadvantages in a tablet and cloud world as Dell is not focused on tablets and is well behind Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in developing a full cloud stack, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Radiant Systems, Clean Energy Fuels, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Micromet, and Nasdaq OMX Group. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Microchip Technology, Novellus Systems, China Gerui Advanced Materials Group, KLA-Tencor, and Intersil.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone is expected to launch in the U.S. in mid-July, following the HTC Thunderbolt. But how do the two stack up?

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Kandi Technologies, Micromet, SIRIUS XM Radio, Lam Research, and Camtek. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Aixtron, Geron, GT Solar International, Sina, and Vodafone Group.

Apple Inc. is gearing up production of the iPhone 5, but some analysts say it's unlikely to be revealed before 2012. Yet there seems little doubt, considering Apple's projection of selling 25 million iPhones by the end of 2011, that the release is right around the corner.

The followers of the New Age faith believe that mountainous village of Bugarach would be spared in the 2012 apocalypse.

Apple Inc.'s delay of launching the next version of iPhone, iPhone 5, has been Samsung Galaxy S 2's gain as the ultra-thin smartphone recorded phenomenal global sales of 3 million units in 55 days in the UK and it is expected to launch in four versions in the US.

Google Inc.'s new social networking site Google+ has suffered its first major flaw on Saturday, when users received email notification multiple times.

Four nuclear reactors in Japan, Israel and Scotland were forced to shutdown due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish, which clogged the seawater cooling system of the plants.

Apple Inc. is expected to release its much-awaited iPhone 5 in September, after the latest member of Verizon’s Droid family, Motorola Droid 3, which is expected to begin in-store sales on July 14. The California-based Apple will still face the heat from Droid 3 among smartphones.

Samsung is facing too much of competition from other Android smartphone makers and from Apple Inc.

Time Inc.'s Fortune magazine released its annual Fortune Global 500 list, which is a ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. Start slideshow to view a gallery of the top 10 biggest companies in the US.

Apple Inc. is facing heavy competition from other tablet makers. Adding heat to Apple is the news that on July 1 HP released its first WebOS-based tablet, TouchPad. Can HP TouchPad be an iPad killer?

NASA space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, despite a stormy weather with a 70 percent chance of thunderstorm and rain that threatened to delay the launch.