TECHNOLOGY

Just days after the iPad knocked out one of its competitors in the tablet market another arises to take its place. Lenovo has announced that its ThinkPad is now available online for pre-orders.

In a bizarre patent defense, Samsung points to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick as the original designer of the iPad and not Apple.

There is a lesson to be learned from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.

New research has revealed your phone can actually make you sexier. A survey by social dating community Zoosk.com shows 46 per cent of males and 63 per cent of females rate the Apple iPhone the sexiest model.

Even before E.T. and his friends return, some entities already here on earth are set for world domination. After Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be giving up the tablet business (notwithstanding that it has yet to recover anything from the $1.2 billion it paid to buy Palm Inc's WebOS last year), HP TouchPad's prices were slashed from $399 to $99 per unit. Immediately, demand for the tablet skyrocketed.

With the HP TouchPad selling for only $100 this weekend enterprising modders are looking to import Google's Android OS to replace the TouchPad's less than stellar WebOS. HacknMod is holding a contest that offers $1500 for any techie who can get Android on the HP Tablet.

Want to make your engagement pictures memorable? How about inviting a flesh eating zombie to crash the shoot?

New owners or would-be buyers shouldn't despair. In this case, here are Top 10 cool and crazy but amazing "useful" (or "lame") suggestions for a new lease on life for the dying HP TouchPad,

Australia's exclusive BlackBerry carrier, Optus, has revealed today the pricing for Research in Motion's latest smartphones, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9860.

Harvey Norman has solved the problem of its leftover stock of HP's discontinued TouchPad tablet. The retailer giant offered a fire sale of the tablets at only $99 and within hours Harvey Norman had virtually sold out of its leftover stock.

It’s one less competitor for the lucrative tablet market as Hewlett-Packard revealed last week its intent to shift its core operation from hardware business to a premium information technology service provider yet current market leader Apple is not taking any chances.

There are some astounding, heart-pounding new videos that have just hit the scene, and you'll want to check these out.

A lack of technological knowledge is getting in the way of keeping their kids safe online, according to new Telstra research released today.

Apple may have just found itself in hot water again after a dutch technology news site spotted doctored images within a filing in Netherlands court surrounding Samsung's Galaxy S smartphones.

HP is taking a beating for its decision to kill off WebOS devices, including TouchPad, and shopping around its PC division, which could be spun off or sold. Shares fell nearly 23 percent - that's about a six-year low! - in early trading today.

Sony today debuted two new sets of video binoculars, the DEV-3 and DEV-5, which are capable of 2D and 3D image capture using the new AVCHD 2.0 format.

Hewlett-Packard had high hopes for its HP TouchPad: being the largest vendor of desktops and laptops, it had hoped that its tablet would be able to compete with Apple's iPad.

Google announced on Thursday on its official blog that it has added a weather layer to the Google Maps tool. The weather layer will allow users to see the weather conditions and temperatures around the globe overlaid on its maps.

Electronics retailer Harvey Norman has ordered its franchises to stop selling HP's TouchPad tablet, after the product manufacturer said it would no longer be making the device.

What is behind Google's thinking and what kinds of outcomes can we realistically expect?

A report this week from 9to5mac.com, citing sources inside Apple, says that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been deciding between an Oct. 7 or Oct. 14 launch date. . If Apple waits for next year, it won't be able to join other vendors taking advantage of lucrative sales during the holiday season.

Nearly 27,000 South Korean iPhone users are suing Apple for $26 million in a class action lawsuit for alleged privacy violations over the collection of user location information.

Browser-based computing and webtops are certainly getting a major boost by the widespread adoption in HTML5 from the likes of Microsoft, Apple, and Google. But alternatives to HTML5, Javascript, and CSS3 are still being explored, and a webtop called SilveOS gives a strong look at Microsoft's Silverlight as an alternative.

Tuesday evening, Taiwanese smartphone maker and long-time Android supporter HTC announced it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the U.S. District Court of Delaware and also a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC).

I would have picked eBay. But according to ComScore, Amazon is leader, with 20.4 percent global Internet population reach in June -- 16.2 percent for eBay. The analyst group lumps together auctions and retail, so looked at that way it's not surprising. What perhaps is unexpected -- Apple ranks fourth -- 9.7 percent share, with 135 million unique visitors.

Sony Corp. is dropping the price of its PlayStation 3 gaming console by US$50 or 17 percent, as it looks to spur demand for the 5-year old console ahead of the year-end shopping season. Taiwan-based component makers, DigiTimes reported that production on the PS4 will start at the end of this year, and the new console will be launched next year.

Anyone eagerly waiting for the release of Windows 8 would want to check out Microsoft's new blog, Building Windows 8 which will streamline communications between developers, customers and manufacturers.

Sony is cutting the price of its PlayStation 3 gaming console by $50, in a move designed to drum up more demand for the 5-year old console as competitors like Nintendo also slashed prices on their gaming consoles.

Apple has plans to launch the next generation iPhone on Friday, October 7, according to a report on 9to5mac.com.