TECHNOLOGY

If rumors are to be believed Apple Inc. will be releasing a mini iPad in addition to the next generation iPad 3 next year. According to Digitimes, a 7.85 inch iPad will be released before the fourth quarter of 2012 and the new iPad at the end of the first quarter.

Apple Inc. won a patent court ruling against HTC in a decision that could ban smartphones from the Taiwanese manufacturer in the U.S. market.

Apple Inc. lost a round in southern China when a court rejected its claim that Proview Technology is infringing on Apple's iPad trademark.

Xbox 360, the popular gaming console will be undergoing a “makeover". According to Microsoft, the changes that will be implemented in Xbox 360 would change the gaming experience of Xbox 360 users.

Chinese-based company ZTE is planning to penetrate the U.S. market next year through launching a high-end smartphone by next year. This high-end smartphone would either be utilizing Google's Android or Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its OS.

The next generation of GPS satellites will be more powerful, versatile and reliable than current GPS satellites.

Suicide specialists claimed that suicides can be prevented. They resulted from despair and mental problems that are treatable. However, the number of people killing themselves still increase.

Google has created another awesome application to get your mood turned on for Christmas and this fun Google app is sure to surprise you this holiday season.

The original Xoom had the distinction of being the first tablet to use Google's Honeycomb OS. However, times have changed and more Android tablets have appeared on the market to challenge Apple's iPad. Can the Xoom 2 keep up in this crowded arena?

Apple Inc.'s iTunes Connect is taking a short holiday break between December 22-29 so developers who are planning on changing their app prices should wait until after the break or risk getting their apps unavailable for purchase.

While Apple Inc. maintains a stringent approval process for apps on its App Store there are still some apps that manage to slip through the cracks. There are over 500,000 apps in the App Store and on occasion some apps create too much controversy that Apple has to step in pull it from the App Store. Here are some of the more controversial apps that sneaked their way to the App Store and had to be yanked out by Apple.

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google remarked that Android is complacent about its progress and given time, it would be able to surpass Apple's iOS status in the smartphone market.

Have you heard of an Amazon Kindle Fire running on Android Ice Cream Sandwich? If your answer is no, brace yourselves because it is bound to happen sooner or later due to the fact that the code is open source.

Some of Australia's biggest retailers and manufacturers are rolling out state of the art fingerprint scanning technology to record employees' clock in and out times.

When the launch of Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich was announced, many people were anticipating this update as positive reviews about this OS circulated among smartphone users.

Australians are searching for wide and various things through Google. This could be the best way to describe the 2011 “most googled” list of Australia released by the giant search engine.

For people who are used to just utilizing defaults apps in their computers, they are missing a lot because there are a lot of free apps that users could download which are extremely useful for their everyday computer-related tasks.

Facebook added a suicide prevention tool on Tuesday that allows users to tag posts that express suicidal thoughts and helps suicidal users connect with a counselor.

But just as there were really great phones this year, there were also the stinkers that consumers shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Here are some of the best and worst smartphones of 2011. First let's look at the phones that really shined this year

Google has been awarded the US patent for driverless cars or for technology related to transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode.

A firm based in Seattle specializing in caller identification technology has sued Apple Inc. for patent infringement alleging that the latter is illegally using its inventions on iPhones.

About 75 per cent or 6.2 million households in Australia have broadband access, data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday said.

Microsoft has decided to follow the lead of its rival browser, Google Chrome, as the software giant revealed on Thursday that it will soon implement silent updates of the Internet Explorer across the latest Window platforms.

Automobile manufacturer Chrysler revealed the company has plans of bringing back their previous car model "Dodge Cart" but this time, with an Italian twist.

Rockstar Games, the developer behind Grand Theft Auto III announced that the popular game series will make its official release on iOS and Android-based devices on Dec. 15, 2011.

Eco-Friendly Vehicles is the main theme for Automotive World 2012 which would take place in Tokyo, Japan on January, 2012.

Apple Inc. is in talks to buy Anobit, an Israeli company that manufactures flash storage technology for somewhere between $400 to $500 million, according to a report published in the Israeli newspaper Calcalist on Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. is planning to allow apps that are licensed under the Open Source Initiative to be distributed on its Windows Store.

Amazon will release an update for the Kindle Fire in two weeks after early consumer complaints about the tablet have surfaced.