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Microblogging service Twitter is looking for a director to bolster its board's business credentials and diversity, and candidates include a former Google Inc executive, a person familiar with the matter said.

Samsung released its newest Google smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus, Tuesday night. It is the newest competitor in a long list of smartphones, including the iPhone 4S and Motorola's Droid RAZR. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes with the newest Google OS, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Motorola also introduced their new Droid RAZR Tuesday. Motorola and Samsung both seek to capture a share of the iPhone 4S' market, but how will the Android phones compete against each other? We look at the expec......

Jaguar Financial, a Research In Motion investor agitating for a shake-up, said two independent RIM directors canceled meetings called this week to discuss complaints about the BlackBerry maker.

Research In Motion will introduce souped-up operating software for its BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet, aiming to make them more formidable competitors to Apple and Google devices.

Dropbox was once sought after by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The company denied Apple the sale and went on to build one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley. Their most recent round of venture capital funding earned them $257.2 million.

Motorola introduced the new Droid RAZR Tuesday, adding a new smartphone to the competition after the iPhone 4S was released in stores on Friday. Motorola seeks to target this market of die-hard smartphone fans, but can the new Motorola Droid RAZR compete with the popular iPhone 4s? We look at the expected specs and features of the new Motorola Droid RAZR and compare it with the current iPhone 4S.

Research In Motion on Tuesday unveiled a mobile platform that combines features of the legacy software used in its BlackBerry smartphones with the new QNX operating system used in its PlayBook tablet computer.

Now that it’s betting $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility, Google plans to unveil its latest version of the Android OS, known as “Ice Cream Sandwich,” at a Hong Kong event Wednesday with Samsung Electronics.

BlackBerry maker RIM announced Monday that it would be offering a one-month extension as well as more than $100 worth of premium apps to its customers for free - an apology of sorts to its millions of disgruntled customers, who suffered global outages last week. The free downloads and service extension come appended to the most recent of a series of apologies issued by RIM for outages that spanned parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Canada and the U.S. Mike Lazaridis, co-C.E.O. of RI...

iCloud and Siri voice recognition are only two of the five major reasons why iPhone 4S sold four million in three days.

Following a worldwide three day outage last week, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to give away a dozen free BlackBerry apps to customers for download and free technical to corporate customers.

Shares of Research In Motion dropped more than 5 percent on Monday after it sought to appease disgruntled BlackBerry customers by offering free apps and technical support to make up for last week's global smartphone outage.

An offer of free games, translation software or other apps to compensate BlackBerry users for last week's prolonged outage left Research In Motion investors cool on Monday, and the shares fell 6 percent.

For the first time, activist investor Carl Icahn declared he will not participate in shareholder efforts to shake up BlackBerry developer Research in Motion.

A new Web site, iflybags.com, is hoping to take the guesswork out of the ever-changing and confusing checked luggage policies.

Canada's Research In Motion Ltd will offer free premium apps worth more than $100 to appease BlackBerry customers frustrated by last week's global disruption of smartphone service.

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion fell more than 5 percent in morning trade on Monday after the company sought to appease disgruntled customers by offering free apps and technical support.

Stung by its three-day e-mail outage last week, BlackBerry developer Research in Motion announced a dozen free apps will be available to customers through Dec. 31.

It's the least Research in Motion (RIM) could do for its global customers impacted by the three-day outage of BlackBerry mobile services including messenger and email. The company said it will offer BlackBerry free apps as an apology of sorts, hoping to make amends for the trouble customers experienced throughout the world last week.

Apple's most enhanced mobile operating system -- iOS 5 -- is finally available to consumers, along with the near-mythical iPhone 4S.

In the wake of Apple Inc.’s launch of its iOS 5, Samsung has responded by making its ChatOn application available in the Android operating-system market. It thus could challenge at least one feature of Apple's new OS, iMessage.