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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.

Sarah Palin has kept to herself during the recent months except for contributing to Fox News and occasional posts on Facebook. But her buying a house in Arizona, reportedly, to centre her campaign and the recent release of a biographical documentary have led to a good amount of speculation. Palin, along with her family, took part in the Rolling Thunder “Ride for Freedom” in Washington DC, whipping up talk that it could be a PR effort to measure her popularity in the candidature scale for the 20...

Germany will phase out all nuclear plants in the country by 2022, the coalition government announced on Monday.

If you are a salad eater in Germany or Spain, beware of the perverse ways by which this 'healthy' food might put you at greater risk when compared to those who consume oily junk. As the e-coli outbreak spreads through organic cucumbers imported from Spain, statistics shows that women are the worst affected. Scientists attribute the healthier eating habits of women as a reason for this unusual trend.

Data showed last week that the net income of US banks was higher in the first quarter than at any time since the financial crisis. However, a rough patch may be round the corner, according to analysts.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces killed at least 20 protesters in the city of Taiz on Monday, the Voice of America reported, citing witnesses.

Why would Saudi Arabia wish good luck to Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is facing the wrath of anti-government protesters? Especially when the president is having a tough time trying to contain the number of his defecting military chiefs?

Close on the heels of Lockheed Martin admitting that it had been hacked, it has emerged that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has been hacked and login and password information pertaining to employees as well as outside users of the site have been compromised.

As the much-awaited video-game conference, known as E3, kicks off in Los Angeles next week, the focus is on gaming majors and the new offerings up their sleeves. There have been rumors that Sony will use the E3 platform to name its Next Generation Portable, or PSP2, as ‘Vita’.

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.

The U.S. Commerce Department has already painted a bleak picture of GDP growth, but the recovery will face tougher headwinds if fiscal consolidation efforts set in, analysts have said.

Wall Street investment guru and editor of GameChangers Hilary Kramer has put together a list of 12 stocks which she advised investors to sell immediately. While the names that appeared on the list are big ticket stocks, Kramer justifies her position, saying that investors usually make the mistake of holding on to what used to be hot previously. She says, for example, retail stocks were 'yesterday’s market leaders.'

Google unveiled its much anticipated mobile payments system -- Google Wallet -- in New York on Thursday, promising to change for ever the way people use money for transactions. In the past few thousand years, the way we pay has changed just three times—from coins, to paper money, to plastic cards. Now we’re on the brink of the next big shift, Google stated.

Experts warn that the worsening of the debt crisis means dramatic hike in interest rates, a free fall of the dollar and higher inflation. The negative impact of this scenario will be felt across the world, bedeviling economic recovery everywhere. Critics say the Federal Reserve mandarins are engaging in the outright destruction of the dollar.

Some wives of Osama Bin Laden think his youngest wife, Amal al-Sadah from Yemen, may have tipped off the terror mastermind to the Americans. This is apparently the latest juicy detail to have escaped closed door questioning of Bin Laden's captured family by Pakistani interrogators.

NASA has said it Hubble Space Telescope has found rare, age-defying stars, the 'blue stragglers', in our galaxy.

Harold Camping, who prematurely sold the idea of a doomsday to gullible millions, is refusing to fade away from news. He is still a hot search topic on the Internet and is still routinely discussed in social networks even after he rolled in the mud and bandied out the most incongruous explanations for his failed May 21st Doomsday prediction

Gary McKinnon, a 43-year-old British computer hacker suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, who has been caught in an extradition battle between the U.S. and the UK over the last decade, suffered a setback on Wednesday when President Barack Obama said the case was now in the hands of the British legal system.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that 22-year-old shooter Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people and seriously wounded Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords, was mentally unfit to stand trial. The ruling came after staff psychologist at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners and a forensic psychiatrist certified that the Arizona killer was not mentally stable.

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.

NASA has said it is ending its attempts to regain contact with the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempt, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be put on trial and he face criminal charges relating to the deaths of unarmed protesters during the pro-democracy uprising early this year that ended the 30-year dictatorship.

Many theories are floating around the dramatic withdrawal of Ahmadinejad who usually likes world stages to whip up controversies and hog limelight through incendiary rhetoric.

Apple said on Tuesday it will deliver a Mac OS X software update to protect Mac users from a recent phishing scam. Apple has also given step-by-step instructions on how to avoid or manually remove this malware.

John Edwards, former Democratic Senator and vice-presidential running mate of John Kerry in 2004, could be prosecuted in a case relating to campaign rule violation, it has been reported.

The incorrigible false prophet of the May 21st Doomsday theory, Oakland preacher Harold Camping, is far from being a changed man after he bit the dust for a second time and his prediction took a place among the most opprobrious jokes in history. According to his earlier prediction, the judgment day would have unfolded in two neatly planned phases; the rapture on May 21, 2011 and the final annihilation of the world on October 21. The quake/flood juggernaut would have selectively destroyed/saved t...

Harold Camping licked his wounds on Monday relishing the quietness of the Day After. But he was palpably sad because the quietness was not the aftermath of the predicted gigantic earthquake that would have flattened Earth. It was tremendous effort from a man who sat on the ruins of his beliefs and still braved odds to parrot his utterly erroneous theories. So we helped him piece together his broken world post the false doomsday prediction.

Microsoft will launch next year its much talked about Windows 8, the latest version of its operating system, CEO Steve Ballmer said in Tokyo on Monday. Ballmer said developers were hard at work on the next version of Windows, but did not drop any clue to its rumored features circulating around the Internet.