TECHNOLOGY

Apple is currently in a legal battle with Samsung to ban the device from Australia due to patent infringements. Samsung had agreed not to sell in Australia until the hearing in Sydney is concluded. Apple had asked Kogan to withdraw the product and threatened to sue the retailer along with Samsung if it didn't comply.

Several have tried to unseat Apple as King of the Tablets but they've all fallen by the wayside. Samsung, Motorola, Acer and Research in Motion have all fielded their tablets only to be beaten by the Apple giant. Hewlett Packard tried with the TouchPad this summer and is now scrambling to recuperate its losses.

A reported memo from Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO, confirms that the board is looking at various offers to buy the company while assuring employees that Yahoo will survive.

Samsung plans to launch its 10.1 Galaxy Tab in Australia on Friday, an Apple lawyer told Australian Federal Court Judge Annabelle Bennett.

While the iPhone 5 will be the center of everyone's attention, note that according to Antoine Saint Exupery, what's essential is invisible to the eye. Aside from betting that the iPhone 5 won't have radical changes, you should think outside the box when comprehending what happens on Oct. 4 and thereafter.

The iPad will continue to dominate its rivals until 2014 according to a new report from the research firm Gartner.Apple's iPad will account for 73.4% of tablet sales worldwide and will hold that market dominance for years to come, said Gartner. Bad news for other tablet makers, the analysts also say that no other platform besides Android will have more than a 5% share of the tablet market during this time.

It seems like Apple's legal troubles are far from being resolved. Apple is now being sued by Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. for patent infringement.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) lost in a court case the regulator filed against search engine giant Google. ACCC complained that Google violated Australia's trade practices law by its using advertisement placements as basis for ranking of search results.

Four years after Australia’ competition watchdog labelled its search results as confusing and misleading, giant internet firm Google won the nod of the court, which declared on Thursday that the company hardly violated any provisions in the country’s consumer law.

Hewlett-Packard has named Meg Whitman, former eBay Inc. CEO and California candidate for governor as its new CEO replacing former chief Lee Apotheker after just 11 months in the position.

Before the iPad, there were netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs. HTC was known back then for mobile phones and it came to a surprise when they launched the HTC Shift back in 2008. The HTC Shift came with a TFT resistive touchscreen and Windows Vista Business. It was a pretty sweet setup with its sliding keyboard. Now it comes back to life with the developer preview Windows 8.

Apple donated thousands of free iPads to Teach for America.

Social networking sites roll-out their new features to users.

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Electronic Arts and PlayFish's "The Sim Social", has topped the list of fastest growing FaceBook games with more than 50 million users playing the social game last week. The game attracted 15.5 million new users to take the top spot with 51.5 million total monthly players.

Microsoft will start updating the Mango OS for its Windows Phone in a "week or two" according to a senior staffer.

Dolby Laboratories and Research in Motion have reached an agreement and has agreed to a licensing deal.Under the agreement, RIM maker of BlackBerrys and PlayBooks will pay Dolby licensing fees to use some of Dolby's technologies. In return Dolby has dropped its two patent infringement lawsuits against the manufacturer.

Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s CEO, stood up to U.S senators Wednesday to defend his company against allegations that it skews search results in favor of its own online services.

Shakers and movers of the tech industry climbed their way to the dominant position of America’s wealthiest for the year 2011, with perennial frontrunner Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates heading the list again with his estimated net worth of some $59 billion.

Angry Birds mania continues to spread rapidly even beyond the techie world. Proof of this is that Angry Birds soft toys are also selling like hotcakes at the rate of one million pieces monthly.

Facebook is set to recruit a high-profile executive whose primary role is to make sure that the social network would establish solid ties in the film and music industries in a bid to boost its content.

Skype has been informed by a researcher it is vulnerable to information thieves online. In a Fairfax Media report, security researcher Phil Purviance of AppSec Consulting says a hole in Skype's system for Phone and iPod Touch devices.

With an aim to provide high-end technologies to everyone, Microsoft will give one million students marked down PCs, software and internet to poor families.

The two giant technology giants, Google and Facebook, upped their ante this week as they battle for supremacy in the cyberworld.

Google Inc. opened its Google+ social network to the world on Tuesday, removing the required invitation to join the search giant's rival to Facebook. Click google.com/+ to join in.

It seems like smartphones running on Google's Android platform are slowly, but surely winning the race, while crowd favorite Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 is still sleeping in some overseas production plants. Android phones now have bigger screens, an improved interface, more powerful processors, and now, virtual wallets?

Aussie PlayStation gamers have escaped Sony's controversial 'agree or boot out' strategy that U.S. and Canadian gamers have to follow.The new clause will allow Sony to ban gamers from the PlayStation Network unless they agree to forfeit the right to pursue legal action should the PSN have future security breaches. Users will need to agree to the new clause after they log in or they won't be able to use their online accounts.

Apple’s new app helped find lost iPhone.

iPhone 5 release may be behind the schedule as the tear-shaped design cause manufacturing issues.