TECHNOLOGY

The speculation that Microsoft is scared of the ever-growing Android mobile operating system was brought up again during a press conference in South Korea last Tuesday.

The iPhone 4S' Siri will soon have a rival as Amazon secretly bought Yap - a voice to text and speech Recognition Company based in Charlotte, NC

The death of Steve Jobs is not coincidental to the death of Adobe Flash Mobile Player, as if Jobs pulled Flash, and brought it down with him to his grave. Hating Flash might just be a premonition that it will not last that long in the business.

The release of Super Mario 3D Land did not get all praises since its release on Nov. 13, 2011. In fact the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called the attention of Nintendo as the game sends out a message that wearing fur is a good idea.

Browsing the Internet is not as harmless as one thinks especially if there are viruses around just waiting for people to make a wrong move in order to get vital information like user names, passwords, credit card details, etc. to use them in illegal activities like stealing money or stealing one’s identity.

The competition between Android and Apple has sharply divided the mobile phone users into two very loyal camps. Reminiscent of the PC wars between Microsoft and Apple, this new phase of mobile wars have led to some contentious debates over which operating system is better. Here's a breakdown of each system's strengths and weaknesses. Which side are you on?

Apple just made an important announcement that their iTunes Match service is already available in the market albeit two weeks late than the date that it was scheduled to do so.

During the early part of 2011, Samsung launched a powerful, slim and durable smartphone - the Samsung Galaxy S2.

Two smartphones. Two different OS. Both their names are widely known. To find out which will win in the specs duel between Motorola Droid RAZR under the Android side and HTC Radar for Windows Phone, a comparison is provided below.

Mobile computing continues to fuel growth in the online search advertising, which according to a latest industry report, has generated some $1.4 billion in total revenues during the 2010-2011 financial year.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced the near-completion of security upgrades on its existing IT infrastructure that will soon require staffs to utilise smartcards to gain entry on the agency’s system.

As more Australians shift to services offered under the National Broadband Network (NBN), comparison Web site, WhistleOut, pointed to five likely strategies that Internet service providers (ISPs) will put in place to gain a larger share of the market.

The current release of the Samsung Focus S Windows Phone makes it the newest player to join the smartphone market but with so many smartphones in the market, what makes the Samsung Focus S Windows Phone stand out?

Another one of Hewlett Packard's discarded tablets has been discovered. A Chinese site Palmjoy was able to snag a prototype copy of the HP TouchPad Go, a 7-inch tablet that HP had been working on before it decided to discontinue its TouchPad line.

It will be another bleak season for Australia's retail industry this Christmas, according to a study by IBISWorld released on Tuesday.

Apple continues to hold sway among the developers community but a latest survey has indicated that its erstwhile dominant rival, Microsoft, may flash noticeable surprises in 2012 and eventually catch up in the now-lucrative mobile computing industry.

Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm of U.S. billionaire Warren Buffett, purchased $10.7 billion shares in technology giant IBM equivalent to 64 million shares.

Nvidia has said that the chip will be replacing previous chips in tablet devices and now there are also reports that the new chip will be coming to mobile phones as well. HTC is said to be making the first smartphone with a quad-core processor in its upcoming HTC Edge. The new Tegra 3 processor will be better than the Tegra 2 processor that most smartphones use today but should this mean that device manufacturers and developers should jump to the quad-core bandwagon?

Malware in mobile phones is generally thought of as just an Android problem but iPhone users shouldn't be so casual about security. Although the Apple App store keeps malicious apps out it iPhone users should still have some type of protection.

Asus released Wednesday their newest addition to their tablet line running on quad-core processor. But questions came up as to the need for tablets to run quad-core, when leading tablets such as Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab is currently running on dual-core processors.

The relatively new class of laptops called the ultrabooks isn't as crowded as the laptop or tablet markets but it's still another field that Apple has taken the lead in. Apple's MacBook Air is considered as the leading lightweight, ultraportable laptop but that doesn't mean that it's going to stay that way forever. New competitors from Toshiba, Lenovo and now Asus are taking a crack at the title for best ultraportable laptop.

Apple's MacBook is set to meet a new competitor in the market next year in the form of Lenovo's ThinkPad Ultrabook.

Apple device owners reported that the Apple iOS 5.0.1 update did not resolve the battery issues as promised during its release Thursday. Apple admits in a report that the update failure is on some apple devices only.

Don't keep your hopes high for the replacements of your 1st generation iPod Nano, because it will be replaced with the same unit, just the good ones though, and not the new Nano as some of the consumers wished to receive.

To help you decide you what smartphone is right for you, here's a breakdown of each smartphones features and how they match up against each other.

Steve Jobs' comment to Walter Isaacson in his biography about Apple's television project has sparked much speculation about how Apple would remake television.

The Toshiba Portege Z835 is the latest Ultrabook offering that Toshiba released in the market.

It was a week of foreign investors snapping up Australian start-up firms. On top of the list is the acquisition by U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart of tech start-up Grapple, which just became a part of Walmart Labs.

The widespread availability of digital television has changed the viewing habits of Australians. According to the Roy Morgan Single Source report, 58 per cent of Aussies aged 14 years old and above are watching digital TV channels.