ANDROID

Two of the most talked-about smartphones right now apart from the iPhone5 are Samsung's Galaxy S2 and the Motorola Droid Bionic. Both Android devices from Samsung and Motorola are offering quite blazing performance at the hand of dual-core processing power. But, there still could be a thing or two that would make you choose one over the other.

Just recently Apple Inc. filed another suit against smaller rival HTC for patent infringement claiming to ban sales of the competing smartphones and tablets. But how is HTC's new Flyer tablet EVO View 4G similar to Apple iPad?

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has longer-term disadvantages in a tablet and cloud world as Dell is not focused on tablets and is well behind Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in developing a full cloud stack, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

The Apple App store, which is the driving force in Apple’s entire business model in the smartphone market, is seeing a boom, a report by Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster suggests.

The updated version of the Android OS is expected to remove home screen lags, and will add video chatting features and improve the device’s battery life significantly.

Apple fans may not like to hear this, but the recent patent infringement accusation of Apple against HTC gives rise to the idea that the iPhone maker is scared of Android smartphone makers and the fear is showing.

Google+ (or Google Pus), the social networking site of the search engine giant that launched two weeks ago and got off on a flying start, is expecting to make changes this week while it is still on the Beta phase.

How do these two social networking sites stack up against each other?

Search giant Google, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings and revenue could exceed Wall Street expectations, when it reports second-quarter financial results on July 14, driven by market share gains in search, display ads and mobile categories.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone is expected to launch in the U.S. in mid-July, following the HTC Thunderbolt. But how do the two stack up?

Apple may launch iPhone 5 in October/November, instead of September, as the California-based technology giant is said to begin production of the next-generation iPhone in August/September.

Google launched its social networking service called Google+ in its latest attempt to break into the social networking realm. While Facebook may have had a head start in the social networking model, but Google is poised to play catch up very soon.

Not just the Android phone users, even iPhone users can upload photos on Google+ using any app that can send pictures to Google’s image organizer, Picasa.

Apple Inc. is gearing up production of the iPhone 5, but some analysts say it's unlikely to be revealed before 2012. Yet there seems little doubt, considering Apple's projection of selling 25 million iPhones by the end of 2011, that the release is right around the corner.

The iPhone is making its first flight on the space shuttle, but its being joined by its long-time rival the Android, from Google.

Motorola Droid Bionic has to deal with 4 versions of Samsung Galaxy S2

Microsoft and Oracle are threatening Android-based phone makers, who had been enjoying the free OS from Google, with patent infringement and requesting to make a large payment, giving Apple an opportunity to widen the gap in the rivalry mobile OS competition.

Android-based phone makers are at a stake of paying a large sum of money to Microsoft and Oracle for patent infringement, giving a chance for Apple’s iOS and iPhone to widen the gap between the rivalry mobile OS match.

Apple Inc.'s delay of launching the next version of iPhone, iPhone 5, has been Samsung Galaxy S 2's gain as the ultra-thin smartphone recorded phenomenal global sales of 3 million units in 55 days in the UK and it is expected to launch in four versions in the US.

The Taiwan-based smartphone maker previously denied the update and then again announced it.

With Friday's lift-off of the Atlantis being the final shuttle launch for NASA, science is expected to turn to the private sector to get into space. But for some computing needs, NASA has turned to the private sector already, using smartphones to run some experiments.