IBT Staff Reporter

HTC is hurrying with its smartphones—HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Sensation and EVO 3D, while iPhone 5 is stuck with the cacophony of rumors and Samsung Galaxy SII is yet to spread wild.

Canon, the world's largest maker of digital cameras, is looking into the possibility of launching a mirrorless model which features many of the capabilities of an upmarket single-lens reflex camera in a more compact body, a senior executive told Reuters on Tuesday.

There are some game spoiler videos on YouTube and the full single-player campaign and some multi-player options are available for streaming.

The U.S. dollar rose from the day's lows on a broad bout of short covering on Tuesday while Asian stocks pulled back slightly from a one-month high as some investors took profits from their recent rally.

The accounting troubles and short-seller attacks plaguing Chinese companies have spared few industries, though one sector appears to be a common target.

China's top e-commerce group Alibaba Group is preparing to launch a mobile operating system in the third quarter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Asian stocks steadied near one-month highs on Tuesday as market players took a breather after five consecutive days of gains while the Australian dollar dipped ahead of a policy meeting of the country's central bank where it may signal a dovish stance.

Asian stocks were steady near one-month highs on Tuesday as market players took a breather after five consecutive days of gains while the Australian dollar slipped ahead of a policy meeting of the country's central bank.

Are you planning to watch the fireworks in the Bay Area but haven’t found where to go yet?

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” pulled in $116.4 million from the U.S. at the box office already, defeating its competitors this weekend.

Tokyo Stock Exchange has proposed a tender offer for Osaka Securities Exchange Co <8697.OS>, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday, as the two bourses proceed in merger talks aimed at surviving a wave of industry consolidation.

Hackers took control of a FoxNews.com Twitter account on Monday and sent six false tweets saying that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot dead, prompting an investigation by the Secret Service.

The most spectacular Fourth of July events will undoubtedly be the fireworks.

Joey Chestnut again reigns as the champion in Nathan's July 4th hot dog eating contest. Chestnut amazingly downed 62 hot dogs within 10 minutes to capture his fifth title. Sixteen other competitors participated in the event, but none were any match for the San Jose engineering student.

Bailouts of Europe's debt-stricken countries face a legal challenge on Tuesday as Germany's top court begins hearing a lawsuit against German contributions to the rescues of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Greece would likely be in default if it follows a debt rollover plan pushed by French banks, S&P warned on Monday, deepening the pain of a bailout that one European official said will cost Athens sovereignty and jobs.

Ireland's finance minister signaled on Monday that the government would make a larger budgetary adjustment of 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion) in 2012 despite being confident of meeting this year's fiscal goals under an EU-IMF bailout.

On Monday, Team Inj3ct0r (1337day) claimed to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reported the Hacker News.

Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its share price.

Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its share price.

A missing Canadian woman was found dead behind her home near Lillooet, B.C, presumably killed by bears.

Mexican federal police have arrested Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, a presumed leader and one of the founders of the Zetas cartel.

A few hours away from the spectacular fireworks of July 4th in Washington, D.C., are you still looking for a spot to watch the show? Here are some tips for the last-minute viewers.

Despite the city’s lack of sponsoring the Fourth of July fireworks event for the past two years, Navy Pier will light up the Chicago sky in celebration of the Independence Day.

Anonymous, the hacker group which is credited with high-profile breaches like PayPal, MasterCard and Visa, in support of whistleblower website Wikileaks has now broken into an Apple server.

The skinny Japanese competitive eater has established a world record of hot dog eating in a time limit of 10 minutes - the record, however, is unofficial.

Prosecutors in New York are investigating a sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Khan and have not yet decided to back off or continue to pursue seven counts of against him.

A recent report says while spending on video games is down this year, it will recover next year.

Moody's is not involved in talks on a Greek debt rollover plan and will only make its views known once there is a final decision on it, the ratings firm said on Monday after Standard and Poor's warned about the plan.