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Apple's first quarter in the post-Steve Jobs era was a success.

Sources from within China's Foxconn plant say Apple's next-gen smartphone, the iPhone 5, is ready to begin production. The phone will reportedly feature a bigger 4-inch screen and a longer and thinner form factor.

New rumors about the iPhone 5 point to a summer 2012 launch, but should you wait until then or pick up a soon to be released Nokia Lumia 900 or HTC Titan II?

Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.

The makers of the Simsimi iPhone and Android app are working to fix the crash issues that have been plaguing the wildly popular artificial intelligence conversation program.

Steve Jobs said 'nobody wants a stylus' when he announced the iPhone back in 2007. Ever since then, most tablet makers have taken the idea of 'if it comes with a stylus you're doing it wrong' and run with it. Sure some of the slate style tablets sold to businesses included a stylus, but the most popular devices over the last few years have been of the decidedly non-stylus variety, including the iPad.

World stocks and the euro suffered on Wednesday as uncertainty about Greece's debt talks overshadowed strong economic data from Germany, blow-out earnings from Apple, and expectations that the Federal Reserve will push back the timing of an eventual rate hike.

Now that Apple, the world’s most valuable company, has reported blowout first-quarter results for its best-ever period, it’s also disclosed holding $97.6 billion in cash and investments.

Apple, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) strong quarterly report with significant upside to iPhone units and solid upside to iPad would naturally be viewed as a positive for Apple supply chain companies including Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).

Instead of dodging questions, Apple's new CEO Tim Cook broke his silence and candidly spoke about the much-hyped Apple TV on Tuesday.

Only about three months after Apple launched its iCloud service, it already boasts of over 85 million users, the company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said during the Q1 2012 financial earning calls on Tuesday.

Cydia version 1.1.4 ensures extraordinary stability and speed, compared to the previous version.

Jefferies said that Apple's better than expected quarterly results is positive for Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) and Avago Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: AVGO).

The owners of iPhone 4S and iPad 2 using Linux now can perform an untethered jailbreak on their devices as the Chronic Dev Team has released Absinthe version 0.3 with support for the 3rd operating system (Linux).

The companies expected to see active trade Wednesday are: Apple, Boeing, CA, Xerox, Automatic Data Processing, Netflix, General Dynamics, SanDisk Corp, Hess Corp, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Laboratories, ConocoPhillips and Murphy Oil Corp.

Sony has confirmed they will begin shipping samples of an 8 megapixel module sometime in March.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Tuesday were: CA, Saba Software, Cirrus Logic, Apple Inc and TriQuint Semiconductor. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: First Midwest Bancorp, Mercury Computer Systems, Approach Resources, NVIDIA Corp and Nektar Therapeutics.

Despite missing Wall Street's expectations during the third quarter of 2011, Apple made quite unexpected and almost impossible projections for the holiday seasons. All eyes were on Tim Cook and company with questions in mind whether Apple could deliver. Well, the results are out and it is a monster blowout.

The new firmware has been launched to deliver better performances and fix reported bugs for all iOS devices.

Apple Inc's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations after U.S. consumers snapped up near-unprecedented numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up 8 percent into record territory.

The iPhone 5, expected to be released this year, could possibly integrate Lytro's groundbreaking light field camera as per the latest report.