TECHNOLOGY

The digital world has slowly invaded practically every single device on earth, even the smallest bit with the audio device. Various kinds of headphones have been released since the invention of the Walkman.

New technologies and players in the video distribution industry are threatening the viability of the pay television sector.

As an early Christmas gift, Google is slashing the price of its web-only Chromebooks to just $299.

U.S. and Canadian retailers have slashed prices for Research in Motion's PlayBook tablet to $199.

Google continues its latest campaign of retiring products and services that the tech giant admitted failed to deliver the desired results, company officials said.

Sony’s latest attempt of regaining its market edge in the gaming industry, the PlayStation Vita, will hit Australian shelves on February 2012 but the giant consumer electronics firm said that pre-orders for the upcoming release is now accommodated.

Oracle officials have accused HP of secretly contacting Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that the dead microprocessor is still alive.

Advanced Micro Devices was hoping that it's recently launched Bulldozer server processors would pull AMD out of its downward spiral against arch-rival Intel. Bulldozer has a new microstructure, a complete redesign of the original Opteron chip and the first chip to be manufactured with 16 cores. It also represented AMD's best hope of regaining its lost market share.

Graphics chipset designer S3 Graphics, a subsidiary of smartphone maker HTC lost a patent infringement suit against Apple Inc.

The digital divide in Australia is felt not only within economic classes, but also right inside Australian homes.

Activision has promised gamers who signed up for Call of Duty Elite that the social network will be up and running by December 1.

Christmas is fast approaching and Kids as well as Kids at heart is making their list on what to expect during the Holidays.

Tech gadgets would likely be on top of the Christmas shopping list of Australians as tech companies take advantage of the changing consumer preference for Yuletide gifts.

Remember that coffee-table-sized tablet computer that Microsoft debuted in 2007 at the Consumer Electronic Show? Now those table sized computers are finally available for pre-orders from Samsung resellers in 23 countries, including the United States and Australia.

Sony Australia has announced the pre-order details for its next generation portable console, the PlayStation Vita for eager gamers.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 at only 8.9 inches is smaller than Samsung's more popular Galaxy Tab 10.1 but this sleek, well-designed tablet proves that size doesn't matter.

Samsung Electronics Co, the Korea based smartphone maker, is expected to overtake Apple in the fourth quarter of the year, according to market report.

Kindle Fire was on the top spot among the leading android tablets when a survey was conducted to 2, 160 developers around the world.

Cloud computing is said to be the newest trend in information technology that most companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google had been incorporating into their services.

Google announced Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011 its newest service, the Google Music, a cloud based service that enables you to store and stream music.

Samsung is now the No. 1 smartphone manufacturer worldwide, based on research by Gartner. The report also said the growth of mobile devices worldwide totaled 440.5 million units sold during the third quarter.

Samsung Electronics has adopted design tweaks on its flagship tablet computer, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, in hopes of circumventing a court-induced ban for the product to be marketed in Germany, reports said.

Anittel Limited (ASX: AYG), a Sydney-based IT and telecom solutions and service provider, topped the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 50 Australian list released on Friday.

Cloud computing has ceased being an upcoming trend that techies talked about to becoming a reality that everyone uses in some capacity. Major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple offer cloud computing services for users. The cloud is becoming the new front in the ongoing battle among these tech giants. So what is cloud computing? How do the cloud computing services of Google, Microsoft and Apple differ from one another?

. Both tablets are due to be released before the holidays with Amazon selling the Kindle Fire on November 15 and Barnes and Noble set to put its Nook Tablet on sale on November 17. So now consumers will have to make a difficult decision of what tablet to buy. Here are some of the strengths and weaknesses of each tablet that could make your decision easier.

Buoyed by the success of its Kindle and Kindle Fire, giant online retailer Amazon may dip its finger further to the lucrative smartphone market as report emerges that another Kindle handset will be introduced to consumers as early as next year.

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson will unveil the full version of the sandbox construction game originally written in Java, at the MineCon convention in Las Vegas over the weekend.

Apple Inc. is the world's most valuable tech company, it's the world's second largest company by market capitalization, it reported record revenue of $108.2 billion in fiscal year ended Sept. 24, and it had record net profit of $25.9 billion in fiscal 2011.

With the release of the iTunes 10.5.1, comes the debut of iTunes Match. It is the newest feature of iTunes that is a cloud-based music matching service that makes your music available on all your authorized devices with the use of an active internet connection.