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Khloe Kardashian has apparently released the first photo of sister Kourtney's baby, Penelope Scotland Disick. But is the picture really of little Penelope?

Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has been saying the same thing for weeks: Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain. Despite massive layoffs, dramatic drop-offs in market share and a rapidly decaying portfolio for investors, Heins firmly believes that RIM's best is yet to come.

Verizon and U.S. Cellular will be the last U.S. phone carriers to get the Samsung Galaxy S3 on Wednesday. The phone is already available on AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, but it is rolling out slowly due to high demand and lack of stock.

At a time when Verizon has been criticized by customers for its decision to ship the Galaxy S3 with an encrypted bootloader, Samsung is apparently looking to set things right. The company has released the source code for the Verizon variant of Galaxy S3 in an effort to give a helping hand to the tweakers and tinkerers at xda-developers and other places.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will finally be released on all AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note devices on Tuesday, which will improve multitasking and provide swifter navigation and well as introduce new features.

Google announced its new Nexus 7 tablet at its I/O developer?s conference at the end of June, which will come equipped with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The operating system upgrade comes with a host of new features, with one of the most exciting being a refreshed user interface.

Samsung?s flagship smartphone for 2012, the Galaxy S3, has already established a dominant presence in the mobile market within only days of its debut. The highly anticipated device?s release has been met with multiple setbacks due to unprecedented high demand, but launch delays aren?t the only issue with Samsung?s new product.

As tablets become the rage in the mobile computing market, manufacturers are sprucing up their plans to gain a toehold in this segment. With turf wars hotting up, the IBTimes Tech Desk identifies three reasons as to why market leader Apple must release a small version of iPad, or Mini iPad as it is popularly known, to retain its hold over the mobile ecosystem.

The wait for the new Samsung Galaxy S3 for Verizon Wireless customers apparently got extended for another couple of days as the carrier pushed back the date of the handset's retail availability from July 10 to July 12.

Customers are unhappy about the complexity of Verizon Wireless' new changes. The company has eliminated voice-calling and text charges, instead opting to charge for the amount of data used by smartphone owners.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is selling so quickly that U.S carriers cannot keep up with the demand, but the device is not short of its problems.

A new iPhone 5 concept design has put a new spin on the Samsung/Apple-- a hybird: the iSung

According to a latest report, Samsung is going to unveil the Galaxy Note 2 in August With features including a 5.5-inch display, 12MP camera and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Whether it's a phone, or a tablet, or a music player, each and every new product released by Apple is thinner, lighter, faster and more powerful than its predecessor. With this in mind, the latest report about Apple's next iPhone, presumably dubbed the iPhone 5, should come as no real surprise: According to DigiTimes, Apple has chosen the powerful Exynos 4 quad-core processor built by Samsung to power its next-gen iPhone.

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer, could be on the verge of selling its own smartphones which would be made by the same Taiwanese contractor used by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, reports said.

Samsung?s flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, is expected to drive the company?s profits to $5.9 billion for the second quarter, according to Reuters. This means that profits will surge by 79 percent during Q2, and the company is predicted to ship 19 million units by the third quarter.

The Samsung Galaxy S3 has finally arrived in AT&T stores, although store managers are warning customers about limited availability.

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), the No. 1 e-retailer, could be on the verge of selling its own smartphones which would be made by the same Taiwanese contractor used by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, Bloomberg News reported.

Apple is highly expected to release its sixth generation iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 5, at some point of time later this year and if ongoing rumors turn to be true, the handset will get major upgrade in terms of its current form factor.

Pre-Orders for the Samsung Galaxy S3 have finally started rolling out on Verizon, and the company has confirmed that the phone will be hitting stores on July 10.

Shares of BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) soared as much as 6.8 percent Thursday despite any corporate news.