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Apple released the fourth beta build of iOS 6.1 on Tuesday so its developers can begin working out the kinks in Safari, Passbook and Maps.

A Google executive has announced that its Maps app has broken 10 million downloads in its first 48 hours.

Google's Nexus 4 handset is once again sold out in the U.S., and the company has issued an apology for shipping delays.

Influitive, the latest venture of Canadian entrepreneur Mark Organ, raised $7.3 million in new venture capital.

Thanks to the talented minds of the Android developer community, the users of Motorola Photon 4G can now update their device to the latest Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with the help of a custom ROM. Here're the steps.

CNN and Fox News segments had many viewers believing the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., was caused by violent video games. Many of them attacked the "Mass Effect" promotional page on Facebook.

Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., loved her job. Her Twitter account is full of short, peppy messages, almost all of them reflecting excitement about events taking place at her school.

The popular and increasingly controversial photo sharing service Snapchat has introduced its social network to an entirely new medium: Video.

A new bill put forward by Minnesota Senator Al Franken, the Location Privacy Protection Act, has been approved by a U.S. Senate committee. The bill aims to limit the ability of software developers and mobile app users to track the activity of other smartphones without their owners' knowledge or consent.

Microsoft's new chief of Windows Julie Larson-Green has discussed Windows 8, it's influences, and the future of PCs in an interview with MIT Technology Review.

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), the No. 1 provider of telecommunications equipment, secured $2.09 billion in new loans intended to keep it going.

XDA member AdamOutler, Ralekdev and Rebellos team up and unlock Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (SCH-i605) bootloader.

Electronic Arts has subsumed its Play4Free portfolio within its larger digital distribution platform Origin in order to eliminate any apparent differences between its free-to-play titles and its premium content.

Free-to-play mobile games are set to make up 80 percent of the hefty $10 billion smartphone users are expected to spend in 2012, a report from the research and consulting firm Flurry says.

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) lacks a new smartphone for holiday buying but its target markets are getting a multi-faceted marketing blitz.

U.S. and international authorities arrested 10 cyberhackers allegedly involved in piracy of 11 million PCs and theft of $850 million.

Gigya, a web infrastructure company, has introduced a unique solution to the mounting concern of protecting user privacy and social data: listing industry standard best practices, and approving different companies with a social privacy certification and seal.

Facebook has changed it's privacy settings, which has again resulted in unfavorable reactions from users.

Google on Thursday released its hallmark Maps app for iOS 6, following the unsuccessful launch of Apple's own Maps app this fall.

As expected earlier, the unknown self-proclaimed iOS hacker by the name of “Dream JB,” who took the tech world by storm claiming that he would be releasing an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6, ended up being fake.

The conflict between Twitter and Instagram proves that not all wars are bad.