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Chocolate manufacturers, it seems, are following the model of smartphone, tablet and TV makers by coming up with larger models of their products.

South Korean tech giant Samsung literally rolled out the gigantic 85-inch ultra-high definition TV on Wednesday night in Sydney. The $40,000 device, soon to be available in retail outlets in Australian this month, features an Australian accent.

Because of the buzz over an upcoming Android OS that started in late 2012, among the 10 things that techies are expecting in the May Google 1/O is the roll out of the Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.

An interesting job vacancy ad was posted in Weibo, China's counterpart of Twitter. The ad announced that a third-party security company in Beijing called Anquan is looking for a Chief Pornography Identification Officer.

AT&T, the largest U.S. carrier, started on Tuesday to accept pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S4 on its Web site. The carrier would only accept orders for the 16GB model on black and white colours and the offer is limited to select areas for the meantime.

Dominance of Android smartphones in the global market will continue in the next two years, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday at the AllThingsD mobile conference in New York.

As more people shift to tablets, the pioneer tablet maker, Apple, has seen its market share shrink in favour of the Android tablet. Blame it on the price, but due to the higher price tags on Apple's iPad, more consumers are shifting to ones that use the Android OS that 2013 would likely end up as the Year of Android Slates.

People who ordered the Google Glass at the Google I/O in 2012 will get their pair in a few days. Glass Explorers, which manufactures the device, said on Monday that the first batch of glasses just came off the production line and will be immediately shipped.

T-Mobile's marketing strategy to attract Americans to buy the iPhone 5 is paying off. Reports said lines have started to form at the fourth largest U.S. carrier when it offered consumers the best-selling Apple smartphone over the weekend for $99.

While the growing attractiveness of tablets and phablets to consumers is anathema to manufacturers and retailers caught with a large inventory of laptops and desktops, it spells good news for potential buyers due to the significant cut in retail prices of these devices.

It seems that Toyota Motor Corp. is going through tough times as it will have to recall as many as 1.73 million vehicles globally as it has faced safety issues revolving around airbags. Other Japan's carmakers, including Honda Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp., have announced the same process as their models have also encountered similar problems. But that is not the last of problems for Toyota Motor Corp. as the carmaker is now at war against Ford Motor Co. over the title of ...

Even if Hope Rinehart Welker withdrew in March the lawsuit she initiated seeking the removal of her mother, billionaire Gina Rinehart, from heading the family trust, her two siblings continued the case.

Huawei quashed on Friday rumours that it would roll out the Ascend Mate Phablet or Ascend P2. Instead, it announced the launch of the Ascent G510, priced at £130.

South Korean tech giant Samsung announced on Thursday the release of two versions of a new phone line, the Galaxy Mega. The smartphone, which features one with a 6.3-inch touchscreen and other with a 5.8-inch display, will initially be sold in Europe in May.

The global app market continued to expand at an impressive rate of 11 per cent for the first three months of 2013. Market analyst firm Canalys, in a new study released this week, said the top 4 app stores logged 13.4 billion downloads for the period.

Newest data showed that the Ford Motor Co.'s Focus model had beaten its rivals in 2012 global car sales. The Focus model became the world's best-selling car due to sharply increasing demand in China. The findings of the survey by R.L. Polk & Co. indicated that three models of Ford Motor Co. were in the world's top six.

Remember that 1980s commercial of a famous shampoo brand? Owners of iPhone units could similarly have their Gee, your phone smells terrific moment by selecting from six scented skins available in the market. With price ranging from $7 to $60, these phone covers may even new doors of friendship, or even a possible romance, if strangers around you would smell the mouth-watering waft coming from your Apple smartphone

West Australia's Anthony Giacoppo will be looking to utilise home-state advantage when the 2013 Subaru National Road Series (NRS) gets underway with the Woodside Tour de Perth (WA) on April 11.

A video teaser suggesting the Volvo S60 Polestar performance concept is coming to Australian showrooms has been released.

The wife of Volkswagen AG chairman Ferdinand Piech is set to join the supervisory board of the Volkswagen Group-owned Audi, almost a year after being elected to the board of Volkswagen AG.

Google is working on the next-generation Nexus 7 tablet as a follow-up to the successful launch of the device. ZDNET, a reliable source of news about devices, reported on Tuesday that the successor to the Nexus 7 will be available in July in the U.S. and could have a retail price of $150.

It's official. U.S. residents would be able to buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 for $399 on April 11, Thursday.

Laptops with longer battery life designed to last all-day use will soon be out following the shipment by Intel to Chinese manufacturers of the Haswell chip. The chip is the first Intel Core chip designed for low power consumption.

Australian subscribers of Vodafone will enjoy 4G long-term evolution (LTE) services by June 2013, Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Bill Morrow said on Monday.

Samsung begins pushing Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update for T-Mobile Galaxy S2 and the device has been receiving constant update everywhere. The Jelly Bean update will give T-Mobile S2 variant new features such as Google Now and Project Butter.

In an obvious indicator that South Korean tech giant Samsung is determined to keep the smartphone king title, the company announced on Monday the release of three models run by Jelly Bean and featuring dual SIM.

Specs of the Samsung Galaxy S4 set for release in Australia in the later part of April are becoming clearer. A statement from the South Korean tech giant confirmed that the much-awaited device would not have a quad-core Exynos 5 Octa processor.

The HTC First phone, the first to feature the Facebook Home launcher, has gotten mixed reviews just days after the device was launched by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday.

Ahead of its official release in the third or fourth quarter of 2013, images of the BlackBerry Curve were released over the weekend.