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Two events took the centre stage last week. One was Hurricane Irene that caused havoc in the Bahamas and North Carolina before heading towards New york City.

Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce a new Galaxy smartphone at an industry exhibition in Germany this week and will showcase 4G version of Galaxy S II at IFA electronics beginning this Thursday in Berlin.

Google has confirmed that the company is set to try and get into the TV market with a new version of Google TV.

HP's fire sale on its TouchPad tablet computer this week has killed all Canada inventory, and details on U.S. stock remains sketchy, but there is still hope for a bargain.

Google will launch its TV service in Europe early next year, announced Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt convincing the policy makers to embrace the Internet in the TV arena.

If rumors are to be believed then Samsung is set to release the Nexus Prime in the U.S. via Verizon.

Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile have confirmed that they will be the first to bring the Samsung Galaxy S2 into the country.

The top three of the four U.S.-based carriers – Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile – have confirmed that they will be the first to bring the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S2 into the country.

In light of Hewlett-Packard’s announcement last Thursday that webOS development for the consumer market is to be discontinued, it now falls to independent developers to keep newly purchased fire-sale TouchPads chugging along.

Motorola Droid Bionic will hit the shelves of Verizon in early September, which will be a major blow for Samsung Galaxy S2 as Verizon won't offer the Samsung smartphone.

Verizon Wireless has confirmed that it is not going to present the Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone together with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile next week. This is certainly going to heat up competition between the Galaxy S2 and the iPhone 5.

The first images of HTC’s upcoming Windows 7 Mango-based smartphone, known as HTC Omega, were apparently leaked.

In another victory for Apple's legal team, Dutch courts ruled that devices from rival Samsung would not be allowed to be allowed on shelves in the Netherlands due to patent infringement.

Directly following the discontinuation sale, an HP TouchPad was seen running Android OS in a series of videos that went viral from a user who snagged a $99 TouchPad from Best Buy.

Are people buying the HP Touchpad en masse to make a profit of it? Seems that way.

The significant change in the strategy of Hewlett-Packard to pull its hand from the fastest growing mobile computing, by withdrawing its TouchPad, has left its competitors wondering about its forthcoming plans and strategies.

If Rumors are to be believed then Samsung is set to release the Galaxy S2 Plus that will feature a 5.3-inch screen with 720p resolution.

While Apple Inc. is tight-lipped towards its iPhone 5 release date, the smartphone is expected to face a good deal of competition from Android devices, particularly from HTC that has planned to introduce its biggest smartphone known as HTC Holiday.

Samsung Galaxy 3D Looks Solid Against HTC EVO 3D and LG Thrill 4G.

When technology giant HP launched its TouchPad six weeks back there were no takers for the tablet, which came at a price of $500 for 16GB version and $600 for 32GB version.

Windows Phone seems to be chasing the app stores of Apple and Android and now holds a gamut of 30,000 apps.