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The U.S Justice Department has requested more information from Google regarding its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, Google said Wednesday.

With Android devices in desperate need of an Instagram-esque app, Flickr decided to step up to the plate and deliver its own photo taking and sharing application for Android users.

The iPhone5 is an upgrade, not a completely new type of product. So why all the excitement?

Due to the spectacular competitiveness in technology of this century, the user do not lack a an alternative device. Samsung Electronics, the world's largest technology company by sales, also boasts its powerful smartphone products. Compared to Apple’s iPhone 5, the rival’s trump card is the Samsung Galaxy S2 which has been released worldwide since early May 2011. So the question here is: Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S2 - Who will be the Winner?

With cryptic messages coming from Apple and a big announcement coming Oct. 4 the Internet rumor mill has been all abuzz. Speculation is running wild with talk of a new entry level iPhone 4S and the new and improved iPhone 5.

Amazon officially made its entry in to the tablet market on Wednesday by announcing its Kindle Fire Tablet at $199.

Global Equities Research has reduced its profit and estimate of Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), saying the internet firm is still losing advertising dollars on display and search properties to Google and other sites.

Microsoft and Samsung agreed Wednesday to cross-license the patent portfolios of both companies.

Tablet wars are heating up day by day. Online retailer Amazon announced its foray in to the tablet space with the launch of its Kindle Fire tablet.

If recent history is anything to go by, then it can be seen that it pays to buy Apple shares whenever the stock drops; something that could make evaluation of the next buying opportunity a meaningful process.

Microsoft has begun to roll out its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update to smartphones globally.

Amazon gained $5.50, or 2.5 percent, to $229.71 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has risen 28 per cent this year.

Yahoo has unveiled the first official Android app on Flickr, which will allow users of its popular photo service to easily share pictures, in real time, with family and friends.

Asian technology companies came under pressure on Thursday to slash prices of their tablet computers after Amazon.com launched its Kindle Fire at a mass market-friendly $199.

Consumers truly anticipating the iPhone 5 release date, as recent research shows that 41 percent of mobile users in North American have plans to buy one of the Apple smartphones.

The Is My Son Gay? app for Google's Android has may in the LGBT community outraged.

Amazon rolled out its new line of Kindle tablets in New York Wednesday morning, adding the seven-inch $199 color Android Fire, the $99 keyboard-free 4GB Touch model and a $79 2GB non-touchscreen version to its ranks. Yet the Amazon product causing the most stir was not an e-reader or tablet, but Amazon Silk, the company's new mobile web platform powered by Amazon's incredibly extensive web services platform.

Amazon is red hot. The company's stock is surging on the same day Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled its first tablet -- the Kindle Fire -- at an event in New York.

Samsung Electronics unveiled on Wednesday software pacts with Intel and Microsoft as the world's No.2 cellphone maker strengthens its mobile software push.

Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled a new e-reader device called the Kindle Touch 3G, which is now selling for $149 and $99 without 3G.

With so many tablets now available, it seems incredible that a serious threat to the Apple iPad has not yet emerged. The lack of a Goldilocks-esque just-right balance between portability and connectivity, sleek styling and dual processing, is much to blame. Like that of the MP3 music player before it, the tablet market is littered with models that, for one reason or another, have failed to capture the public's imagination. Yet, Amazon's unveiling of the eagerly awaited Kindle Fire ...