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Verizon began accepting preorders for the Samsung Galaxy S3 on Wednesday, but orders won't be delivered until early July, according to a screenshot on a popular gadgets' website, which would likely make it one of the last major U.S. carriers to release the phone. According to Slashgear.com, the phone won't be available from Verizon until July 9.

Joining the four major US carriers, the nation's sixth largest carrier U.S. Cellular has announced that it will launch the latest Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone in July with preorders beginning June 12.

All major U.S carriers will be stocking the Samsung Galaxy S3 in coming weeks, but AT&T will stand out as the company plans to release an exclusive red version of the phone this summer, Tech Crunch reported.

Following Samsung's announcement that the Galaxy S3 is on its way to the U.S., T-Mobile and Sprint have revealed that the phone will be released on June 21.

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled a stunning new technology platform at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles called SmartGlass, which essentially connects the television and the Xbox to smartphones and tablets, letting users consume their media in a much simpler and more fun way.

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC is going to make handsets that will be certified for Sony PlayStation Suite. Yes, it has just been announced that the Japanese multinational conglomerate will be partnering with HTC to create phones for a new program, named as PlayStation Mobile.

After Samsung announced Monday about the launch of its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone in the US with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and US Cellular starting this month, AT&T has confirmed the arrival of the handset over the next few weeks with preorders beginning June 6 in company-owned stores and online.

Could Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, be getting a new jolt from the burgeoning China market, its second largest?

Samsung announced Monday that it would launch Galaxy S3 with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and US Cellular starting in June.

Research In Motion's appointment of bankers to advise on drastic options, including an outright sale of the BlackBerry maker, may only hasten moves by major customers to offer their employees smartphones produced by rivals.

Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday the models details and availability date of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, in Canada. The highly-anticipated smartphone will be available through leading Canadian wireless carriers and authorized national retailers, starting June 20.

As Apple prepares for WWDC in San Francisco, new parts and components for a sixth-generation iPhone have surfaced on the Internet, via Apple website 9 to 5 Mac. The images, which show the faceplates and backplates for a new black and white iPhone, appear to be legitimate. This could be the iPhone 5 we've all been waiting for.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell to a new low following its $16 billion May 17 initial public offering.

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 is finally out in Europe, but with pre-orders topping over 9 million, customers are facing distribution delays.

Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) rose as much as 3.8 percent Tuesday after reports it might shed 2,000 more employees soon. But they fell 10 percent later.

Samsung Galaxy S3, the South Korean tech giant's flagship smartphone hit stores on Tuesday in 28 European and Middle East countries, including Germany and Britain. The company also claimed that the device would be offered by as many as 296 carriers in 145 countries by July.

Groupon Inc. is testing a payment service that will allow merchants to accept credit cards using its infrastructure, media reports said, pushing the coupon company into a market space already occupied by PayPal and Square.

As Europe prepares to get its hands on the Samsung Galaxy S3 on May 29, the U.S and Canada have only been given a tentative summer release date. However, an ad spotted by MobileSyrup has revealed that the phone will be released in Canada on June 20, with pre-orders starting now.

One of the biggest allures of Apple?s latest smartphone, the iPhone 4S, was the introduction of an interactive voice-automated assistant Siri. It seems like Samsung has caught on to the features? success, as it plans to roll out the S Voice on its Galaxy S3.

While a lot of users are still waiting to get their hands on Samsung's latest flagship smartphone Galaxy S3, the device has already been rooted. The Android developer who goes by the name of Chainfire has managed to root the smartphone even before its release.

Apple's senior VP of industrial design Jonathan Jony Ive, who was also Apple founder Steve Jobs' closest friend and confidant, was asked by The Telegraph what project he would like to be remembered by. Even though Ive is behind some of Apple's most courageous product designs, the design guru actually said Apple's current project could be his finest hour.