SOFTWARE

Android Market now accounts for more mobile app downloads than Apple and its App Store, thanks to Google's open-source strategy, according to ABI Research. The Android platform was responsible for 44 percent of all mobile app downloads in the second quarter of 2011, as opposed to iOS's 31 percent.

On Nov. 3, HTC will release its latest Verizon smartphone, the HTC Rezound, aka the HTC Vigor, aka the HTC Thunderbolt 2, aka the phone that has had more names than P.Diddy...and the Galaxy Nexus Prime, for that matter. The HTC Rezound is scheduled for a release date in Verizon Wireless stores Nov. 10.

An IBM report reveals the triangular relationship between consumers, businesses and social media networks.

Unthink says it is starting a social networking revolution. And it is serious. The Unthink homepage even features black and white photos from the Civil Rights Movement as its background. According to CNET, Unthink promises to emancipate social media and unleash people's extraordinary potential. It will be the anti-Facebook. Unthink backs this proclamation by stating that, as an online social networking hub, it will be free of privacy issues, endless redesig...

Microsoft will end support for XP in 2014, but it will still run on thousands of machines.

Amid slipping subscription numbers Blizzard tries a number of methods to attract old World of Warcraft players back into their Popular Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game. But are the new incentives enough to get lapsed playing back into WoW, or does it just cost too much to get back into the game.

Dropbox is offering 5GB of free storage in an upcoming joint venture with HTC.

Plenty of investors expected Netflix Inc shares to fall after the company reported third-quarter earnings -- but not 35 percent.

Shares of one-time Wall Street darling Netflix Inc plunged 34 percent in heavy trading on Tuesday, a day after the battered movie rental company warned of more subscriber defections and mounting costs.

An Apple TV prototype is supposedly already in the early stages of development in China and could be available for a late-2012 or early-2013 release date.

Last Friday, Blizzard officially unveiled the Mists of Pandaria, the fourth expansion for its video game juggernaut World of Warcraft. The release of Mists - which could come as early as next year - comes during a crucial time for the franchise, which has lost almost 10 percent of its subscriber base in recent months.

There is no set order of phones to get Android's new OS, but Motorola and Samsung devices are likely the first recipients.

Ten years ago, Apple released the very first iPod, a deceptively simple media player that dramatically changed the way people listen to music. iPod is not the first MP3 player to appear in the world but it is the first to be sold to the masses and it finally revolutionized the music industry.

New computer virus sets off a wave of fear, speculation.

Google Inc. is reportedly gearing up to launch a music downloading service sometime in the next two weeks that it will link to its Google+ social network. The application - currently referred to as Google Music - will be an extension of Google Music Beta, a free service that allows users to store their existing music collection in the cloud.

Blizzard's Annual Pass comes with great rewards, but comes at a great price.

Siri is unique, but several Android apps have some of her basic functions like creating messages and speaking.

The long-awaited biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, was made available Monday. Isaacson briefly mentions that Jobs wanted to create a television with a simple user interface, rescuing consumers from multiple confusing remotes.

Less than 24 hours after Apple launched its newest mobile operating system - the iOS 5 - a number of tools to help jailbreak the software emerged. However, until now, the only tools available provide a tethered jailbreak.

Teen bride Courtney Stodden, who hit the headlines for marrying actor Doug Hutchison at the ridiculously young age of 16, was kicked of a pumpkin patch after she showed up in clothes alleged to be indecent for a farm that caters to families

Any iPad 2 running Apple's iOS 5 is, potentially, an easy target for a hacker. Anybody with an Apple Smart Cover can easily access information, according to a report, such as emails, messages, Safari pages, contacts and maps.