TECHNOLOGY

Funny iPhone 5 memes have been making the rounds across social networks even before Wednesday, as news came out on Apple's release of its latest iPhone design. Others shout "not impressed." Some others wonder what the future iPhone could look like and what it could do.

iPhone 5 is still one of the hottest topics on social networks after Apple’s September 12 announcement. As usual on Twitter, users are shouting out reactions fueled by desire, disappointment, sarcasm and humour.

Notwithstanding the rollout of a new iPhone, Android handsets will be scooped up in large amounts that by the close of 2013 more than a billion units will be owned by global consumers, according to a new smartphone market report.

The burden of waiting and speculating is finally over as tech giant finally Apple pulled the curtains of the new smartphone – iPhone 5.

Pitting Apple’s new iPhone 5 against Sony’s Xperia Acro S is pretty much watching the technologies from the two tech giants clashing in full force, with ‘minor’ players invited into the fray because their brand architectures are inside the fresh smartphone releases.

Around the world, more than 850 million people use Facebook regularly to communicate. More and more employers also are using Facebook as a way to examine potential employees before making hires.

Despite comments by some techies that Apple's newly launched iPhone 5 is boring, analysts forecast the latest mobile unit would be a bestseller. Piper Jaffray Cos analyst Gene Munster forecast that the iPhone 5 could sell up to 10 million units by the end of September.

Aside from the Apple’s flagship phone, the tech giant also introduced the latest generation of the company’s music player, iPod Touch.

While seeking tougher laws to battle Twitter trolls which he experienced, NRL star Robbie Farah himself made a similar offending tweet in 2011 to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

iPhone 5 is welcomed by raves and rants in social networks. After much anticipation, the specs of “the biggest thing to happen to iPhone” have been out, and news watchers have promptly noticed that rumours have had the features spot on. iPhone 5 indeed boasts of a larger 4 inch screen, 4G LTE and an upgraded chipset, among others. But what else is new?

Apple confirmed that the new iPhone 5 will be available for pre-order on Friday, September 14 and will hit the Apple Stores on September 21.

Tech giant Apple unveiled its new generation of smartphone – iPhone 5. iPhone 5 is expected to battle head on with Samsung’s latest devices like the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3.

Apple pulled the curtains on its latest smartphone, iPhone 5 and wowed many critics and audience in its media event that took place in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts, and has the entire tech world watching to see the next generation iPhone.

Mobile apps are more attractive when offered free, tech research firm Gartner confirmed on Tuesday as latest data showed that global users will likely download more than 45 billion smartphone and tablet apps by the end of 2012.

How much illegal music downloads would cost? For a U.S. woman it’s $US222,000 as determined on Tuesday by a federal appeals court, which declared that the hefty fine was just and reasonable.

All is set for the much awaited iPhone 5 launching event in San Francisco but there are things that tech giant Apple should not do in the media event.

Much is expected from the new iPhone version. Apart from issuing a reengineered hardware and improved software, all packed into a slick and thin brick, Apple is also pressured to replicate and even exceed what it has been doing in the past half-decade – earning billions and really quick.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy accused on Wednesday a microblogging site of not cooperating with the Australian government due to Twitter's failure to turn over evidence on its probe of cyber abuse.

Barring unlikely force majeure, Apple’s new iPhone will definitely hit the global market this late September, prompting the tech giant’s closest rival, Samsung, to welcome the handset debut accordingly – with lawsuits.

Will the phony ad of Nokia Lumia 920 that stirred the controversy on the real capability of the smartphone’s camera take a toll on the company’s sales and credibility?

Automobile manufacturer, General Motors, was forced to halt the affected Chevrolet delivery of certain vehicles, including some of its most popular vehicles of 2013, due to a problem with the software that is affecting the OnStar communication technology equipped in their vehicles.

With imminent release of iPhone 5, many consumers can hardly wait to get their hands on the new smartphone of Apple.

A lot of consumers are anticipating the launching event of the flagship phone of Apple, iPhone 5, tomorrow in the US. However, we advise that you put off your plan to purchase of the aforementioned device.

More job losses will hit ailing PC maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the immediate years ahead, purportedly to realise more savings amid the prevailing soft environment in the global personal computer market.

Only 14 per cent of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Australia are using cloud computing, a study commissioned by MYOB, a business software provider, found.

Fans of BitTorrent downloads beware! A new study suggests that obtaining music, movies and software from file-sharing sites would leave digital footprints that could expose users’ IP addresses under close watch by copyright agents.

Everyone’s waiting for the next iPhone version but Aussie telcos may not be overly excited that Apple’s new smartphone will be rolled out this week, a new report said.

Facebook and other social media sites are likely to jeopardise the operations of Aussie Diggers in Afghanistan, according to a new government review that assessed the impact of popular social networking websites to the country’s Afghan Mission.

Nokia introduced the new phones in the Lumia range last week and some of its features promises strong competition to Apple’s iPhone 5.