TECHNOLOGY

Group of hackers and developers iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team recently released a new version of Redsn0w and Corona that can fix the launchctl issue in untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1.

Secret sharing app Post Secret is now removed from the App Store as the app was misused by some users.

Looks like the fireworks are starting a little early in Google+.

Amazon.com sold more than a million Kindle products this holiday season according to a statement released by the company on Thursday. Although the company has been vague about the exact numbers, Amazon said its three Kindle products, the Kindle Touch, the regular Kindle and its latest tablet the Kindle Fire occupied the top three spots on its bestseller list.

Sony Corp. has slashed $100 from its Sony Tablet S in the U.S. but Australian buyers will have to wait awhile before the Tablet S will be discounted in Aussie retail stores.

The man behind such best-selling games like "The Sims", "SimCity" and "Spore" has a new game that will place the player in the center of the action: as the main character of "Hivemind".

This holiday season was one of the busiest for Apple's App Store. Millions of people activated their Android and Apple devices for Christmas, and their first stop was the App store for both systems. On Christmas Day alone, 242 million apps were downloaded according to market research firm Flurry.

Blurring the lines between what's real and what's computer generated, augmented reality is a new way of interacting with the world and it could become more popular in 2012.

Facebook is also a place to cry for help, particularly for those who are in need of kidney donors. Damon Brown from Seattle is only one of fortunate individuals who found a kidney on Facebook. He told his story on a special page he created under the name, "Damon Kidney."

Considerable successes it reaped in the mobile phone market and the general consumer electronics industry will not stop Samsung Electronics from moving further even in the face of a financial downturn across the globe.

Sony followed the tactics employed in early 2011 by Hewlett-Packard and Research in Motion, cut the price of a slow-moving product.

2011 has already come to an end and recent report shows that Google’s Android emerged as the dominant OS for Smartphones in U.S. for the year 2011.

There is no doubt that tablets have played a dominant role in the market today and this is evident in the number of tablets released last 2011.

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer continued to lose users in December as Google Chrome snatched market share to grow to a record high 19.1% market share

The original documents which spawned the birth of one of the most successful companies in the world were sold through an auction for 10 times more than its estimated value.

Google gave its Google Doodle fans a one-two punch by posting two doodles to ring in 2012. On the last day of 2011, Google had a Doodle representing the ways people celebrate the incoming New Year. The last Doodle of 2011 had the letters of Google decked out with hats and streamers for the New Year's Eve party with 2012 emblazoned in the middle 'g' letter. Users who clicked on the Doodle were taken to a page that showed the search results of the term "Happy New Year". This marked ...

There were many additions to the gadget world in 2011. Most of the gadgets the previous year showed that the digital industry has improved greatly from mobility and transportation to entertainment and communication.

Australians are expected to send 76 million text messages for the New Year. The figure would top the estimated 65 million SMS sent by Aussies on Christmas Day.

Millions of smartphones and tablet computers made their way to new owners this holiday season, with both Apple and Google getting considerable piece of the action, latest reports said.

As reports indicated that U.S.-based shoppers have splurged tens of billions in online shopping during the busiest weeks of the holiday season, Amazon reported on Thursday that its best-selling products, both the original Kindle and Kindle Fire, sold more than one million apiece.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Australians have been saving at a record-high rate, to the detriment of the country's retail industry. For the September quarter, Aussies' ratio of net household savings to disposable income went up to 10 per cent from 9 per cent in the June quarter.

2012 could be a banner year for Microsoft. The software giant is set to release the next generation Windows software, Windows 8 which is slated to run on both tablets and desktops. It's a huge gamble for Microsoft, one that could very well spell the difference between success and failure for Microsoft in this post-PC era.

What's next for consoles in 2012? With smartphones and tablets eating up their market share how will console manufacturers keep gamers interested in the next year?

Hewlett Packard finally made the leap to join the growing tablet market by releasing the HP TouchPad, but the response for this tablet was poor. Will this be the end for the HP TouchPad? If the reports true, the probable answer is a big "YES".

News about the confirmation of Command & Conquer: Generals 2 are now spreading and many gamers and critics are anticipating the arrival of this new game.

Google could have a potential enemy now that HP (Hewlett Packard) revealed that they are planning to pursue their WebOS project which is incidentally, also an open source project.

Apple recently pulled the app called "Driver's License" by DriversEd.com through the urging of Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania.

The battle between Modern Warfare 3 and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is becoming more intense as both games are supposed to be claiming the dominant position in different lists and reports.

Impatient Samsung users who are raring to get the new Android operating system, the Ice Cream Sandwich will have to wait a little longer as Samsung announced that its popular Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab won't be getting the upgrade to ICS as previously expected.