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Just days after launching revamped versions of BlackBerry Torch and Bold models which optimize the BlackBerry OS 7, reports are filtering in which suggest that RIM will launch its first QNX-based smartphone in Q1, 2012.

Apple Inc on Tuesday surpassed Exxon Mobile Corp, if only briefly, to become the most valuable company in the United States. With a market cap of almost $342 billion, Apple's sales have been increasing 80 percent a year, coupled with even faster profit.

Apple beat oil company Exxon Mobil to briefly became the most valuable business in America, with a jaw-dropping $338 billion dollars on Tuesday. Exxon's stock was down earlier Tuesday, which allowed the Cupertino-based tech company to grab the top spot. Just last year, Apple took Microsoft's number two spot, and on Tuesday became the official most valuable company in America as the ipad, iphone and Macbooks continue to sell successfully.

In another victory for Apple's legal team, courts in Germany ruled against rival Samsung Electronics, barring it from selling its competing tablet computer in most of the European Union.

Facebook has done it again - weeks after it joined hands with Skype to beat Google+ Hangouts, the world's No.1 social networking site has launched Facebook Messenger, a free mobile app for iPhone and Android users that allows them to send and receive real-time messages from their Facebook contacts.

Apple has done it again - after blocking rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, the technology giant managed, Monday, to get a preliminary injunction (or temporary restraining order) from a German court that prevents Samsung from selling Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole of Europe (excluding the Netherlands).

Facebook has released a standalone mobile app called 'Messenger' available for iPhone and Android devices for sending messages and photos to friends and small groups.

A German court ruled that Samsung Galaxy tablet computers cannot be sold in any EU country besides the Netherlands.

America's economy is barely growing, and policy-makers are searching for solutions. If only Apple made its popular iPhone and iPad in America. The unemployment rate would shrink, and the economy would get moving again.

Ironically, Exxon still generates about four times the annual revenue that Apple does.

A new study from ViaForensics uncovered how most apps on iOS and Android don't properly protect consumer data.

Google's social networking site Google+ on Monday released a new update to Apple iOS app to support the iPad and iPod Touch, following the last month's launch of Google+ app for iPhone users.

Previously a number of set-top boxes, unlike Apple TV, supported gaming and other user applications.

Google is building on top of the allure of its new social network, Google+, with the release of an updated app that will work on all Apple devices.

RIM may be releasing its first QNX-based BlackBerry, the Colt, in the first quarter, according to a report by Boy Genius Report.

The American people just love their cell phones. According to a new survey from Telenav, a mobile applications company, one-third of Americans would rather do without sex than without their cell phone.

While news of missing children seems to be unceasing and often end in the worst tragedy, the FBI rolled out its first mobile application this past weekend, aiming to be the aid of parents before and when children go missing.

Since the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the market share of Windows-powered smartphones has fallen 38 percent, something unusual to happen following the debut of a new product.

Worried about losing your kid? Fear not, the FBI has released a Child ID app.

Some of the most explosive teenage talent in the world is engrossed in the dark art of illegal hacking and waging cyber wars on governments and corporations. And then there are those young children who master the art of legal hacking in schools run by former hacking wizards.

The next Apple iPhone rendition, the iPhone 5, will sport speech-recognition feature courtesy of Nuance Technologies.