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The lines are drawn in the debate over whether the Simsimi or Siri app is the better conversationalist.

As promised, the Chronic Dev Team has finally released a Windows version of the latest untethered jailbreak utility for the A5 devices. Yes, Absinthe now works on Windows as well!

The latest untethered jailbreak Absinthe was released yesterday and the jailbreak community is going gaga over the latest tool. Following the launch of the latest exploit, IBTimes would like to revisit all top five software, including Absinthe, as all these untethered software have done an amazing job in terms of jailbreaking the Apple devices running the iOS 5 and 5.0.1...

LOS ANGELES - Netflix Inc will kick off an external search for a chief marketing officer in coming months, replacing Leslie Kilgore, who ends her 12-year run in February to join the board as a non-executive director.

Apple unveiled iBooks 2 on Thursday, a sequel to its popular book and PDF reading application that now accommodates textbooks on the iPad. Here, we provide a guide to what you'll find in the new free app, and explain why iBooks 2 really is the future of textbooks.

Highly touted high school cornerback Yuri Wright was expelled after a series of sexually explicit messages on Twitter.

The hashtag SOPA is dead began trending on Twitter Friday as news spread that Lamar Smith has withdrawn SOPA, the highly controversial anti-piracy legislation, from the House. Smith agreed to pull the bill until there is wider agreement on a solution.

Facebook has moved one step forward in becoming the 'Media Hub' of the world, by rolling out 60 new apps that allow Facebook users to automatically share everything, from music to food, fashion and travel tips.

The BSE Sensex rose 0.57 percent on Friday to its highest close in six weeks, as appetite was bolstered by strong results from software services exporter Wipro (WIPR.NS) and the country's No. 3 private lender Axis Bank (AXBK.NS).

On Thursday, Apple jumped into the digital textbook publishing business by launching new applications like iBooks 2 and iBooks Author in a media event in New York. Apple wants to make it easier for people to publish and consume educational content and is giving the tools away free of cost. But be clear enough that the Cupertino tech giant is not in a mood of doing any charity.

Though there is no upfront fee to create the e-book titles and though it must be acknowledged that it is a total miracle in terms of time savings (as Roger Rosner, Apple VP for Productivity Software, rightly said), the new iBooks Author has several limitations.

Wael Ghonim doesn't like being called an activist. The 31-year-old Google employee says he's no different than other Egyptians who took part in the 2011 protests spurred by a Facebook page he created that forced then-president Hosni Mubarak to step down.

The much-awaited education event was hosted by Apple on Thursday in New York, as the technology giant took a moment to unveil iBooks 2, which is being touted as a textbook killer.

At the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Thursday, Apple revolutionized the education industry with three new apps, including the new iTunes U app, which lets teachers upload course materials, lessons, syllabi and even books to their students via the iPad.

At the Guggenheim Museum in New York Thursday, Apple announced it would update its iBooks platform to include textbook capabilities and also added a new platform called iBooks Author, which lets anyone easily create and publish their own e-books.

Research In Motion may still see software licensing as an important part of its turnaround plan, even though Samsung has denied that it might pay to use the BlackBerry maker's technology or even buy the company.

Anti-virus software maker McAfee warned that a flaw in one of its products could make customers' PCs vulnerable to attacks in which hackers used their computers to distribute spam.

EBay Inc gave a conservative quarterly sales forecast despite unveiling better-than-expected results, warning that a weak European economy may take the gloss off rip-roaring growth in online commerce.

U.S. prosecutors arrested a Chinese computer programmer on charges he stole software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

U.S. prosecutors arrested a Chinese computer programmer on charges he stole software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Prosecutors charged a computer programmer with stealing software code valued at nearly $10 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.