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Hewlett-Packard is set to keep its PC division which it had put up for sale, but it may shut down its webOS division, which was obtained for $1.2 billion in April 2010 when the company bought Palm. As webOS goes, 500 jobs are on the chopping block as well.

Google Inc.'s newest version of its open-source Android mobile operating system is set to launch next month, but it's only going to be available on the Galaxy Nexus device, possibly until the end of the year.

Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple did in the third quarter of 2011, but Samsung may not have sold them all yet.

Windows Phone has the most to prove, but can Android 4.0 take on Windows Phone and defeat iOS 5?

Internet giant Google Inc. has released an update to its Google TV service that should address some key issues hampering its smart TV platform.

Google TV takes another step in unifying all types of media.

Game seven of the World Series will be played at 8:05 p.m. Eastern Time Friday night. With the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers tied 3-3, game seven will determine the 2011 series winner. The game will be shown on Fox.

Samsung has taken a bite out of Apple. The Korean technology giant has replaced Apple as the world's number one smartphone vendor in Q3 2011.

A team of computer security researchers recently developed a proof-of-concept 'spy' app for the iPhone 4 capable of tracking typing on a nearby keyboard using the device's native accelerometer and gyroscope. Even a basic, widely available mobile device such as the iPhone is sensitive enough to enable the app to pick up data such as whether the keystrokes come from the left or right side of the keyboard and the relative distance between punched keys.

Dropbox Launches Dropbox for Teams With Administrative Controls and Plenty of Space

Mobile phone firm Nokia has launched Lumia 800 smartphone in a move to regain its lost smartphone market, which is currently dominated by Apple's iPhone and other Android smartphones.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple the popular slide-to-unlock feature, boasted by many smartphones nowadays, on a touchscreen device. Apple had already been granted a similar patent before. Another major patent win would obviously strengthen Apple's position. The patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,406,721) is entitled Unlocking a Device by Performing Gestures on an Unlock Image, and has an open language as follows:

In October, three musketeers in the smartphone market rushed before the eyes of smartphone watchers - Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S. Apple's iPhone 4S, unveiled on Oct. 4, just a day before the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died, smashed its previous sales records by selling 400 million devices over the launch weekend. Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the latest Samsung and Google flagship smartphone, which was unveiled in Hong Kong on Oct. 19, is likely to be launched in...

Verizon Wireless Thursday started accepting pre-order for Motorola Droid RAZR. Consumers will start getting the phone by the second week of November.

Stanford researchers have developed a synthetic skin-like material capable of detecting pressure as well as touch by implementing the use of carbon nanotubes. The research team, led by associate professor of chemical engineering Zhenan Bao, published their work in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Pre-orders start for the Gingerbread powered, 4.3-inch wide, 4G LTE enabled phone. The Droid RAZR will release Nov. 10.

Though the Nexus One is just under 2 years old, Google says the device is simply too old and will not be receiving Android 4.0.

Apple patent could be a weapon against Samsung and HTC, who Apple already has multiple claims against.

Android 4.0 will be pushed out to the Nexus S, but not the Nexus One that came out only two years ago.

In a matter of eight hours, India-based software company Dexetra was able to create a Siri knockoff - an early Android version of Apple's Siri voice recognition system.

Motorola Droid Razr will certainly face stiff competition the Apple's iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S2.