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Reuters reported last Friday that Korean electronics company Samsung has surpassed Apple in smartphone sales this July through September quarter.

Steve Troughton-Smith, an Ireland-based hacker and his San Francisco-based friend, Grant Paul, claimed to have successfully hacked the voice-enabled digital assistant to run fully on the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch 4G.

The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, which is a follow-up to Galaxy S2 and to hit the market on Nov. 6, is anticipated to give immense competition to Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S.

Here are four ways which can help save the iPhone 4S' battery life.

Owners of the iPhone 4S have been complaining that the phone's battery life is even worse than that of its predecessors. Luckily, there appears to be an easy fix.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Monday it sees slightly lower revenue and shipments in the fourth quarter then in the third.

Samsung could start selling bendable screen mobile devices next year.

Americans watch hundreds of hours of television, so if Apple begins making them with Voice recognition, it could be the ultimate machine.

Highlights from an extensive report on tablet computer owners.

Japan's Sony Corp., struggling with a loss-making television business, is considering dissolving its liquid-crystal-display joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.

Sony Corp, struggling with a loss-making television business, is in negotiations to pull out of its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs.

In Technology Group Ltd. announced a 4.3-inch xpPhone 2 smartphone should be launched early next year. ITG, claiming to be known as China Apple, announced in its press release that the xpPhone 2 will be a Post-Smartphone.

The iPhone 4S has reported problems of faster than usual battery drainage. Apple engineers are currently looking into solving the problem that has affected its latest smartphone.

Google Inc.'s newest version of its open-source Android mobile operating system is set to launch next month, but it's only going to be available on the Galaxy Nexus device, possibly until the end of the year.

Samsung shipped more smartphones than Apple did in the third quarter of 2011, but Samsung may not have sold them all yet.

Windows Phone has the most to prove, but can Android 4.0 take on Windows Phone and defeat iOS 5?

Samsung Electronics Co. has surpassed Apple Inc. as the world's top smartphone manufacturer during the July-September period, with an increase of 44 percent in shipments. The South Korean technology giant has also forecasted strong sales in the current quarter.

After having been halted by the iPhone 4S reality for some time, the rumor mills have back to the imaginary iPhone 5. Many people believe Apple will launch iPhone 5 in 2012.

Apple sales in China and Japan reached $14.3 billion in 2011, an increase of 174 percent from a year ago. The region accounts for nearly a quarter of revenue.

Samsung has taken a bite out of Apple. The Korean technology giant has replaced Apple as the world's number one smartphone vendor in Q3 2011.

A team of computer security researchers recently developed a proof-of-concept 'spy' app for the iPhone 4 capable of tracking typing on a nearby keyboard using the device's native accelerometer and gyroscope. Even a basic, widely available mobile device such as the iPhone is sensitive enough to enable the app to pick up data such as whether the keystrokes come from the left or right side of the keyboard and the relative distance between punched keys.