TECHNOLOGY

It's Tuesday in mid August. You're not really working are you? So how about another juicy Hunch infographic comparing Android and iOS users. Let's be honest -- Hunch's findings, culled from more than 15,000 people -- are about one thing: class warfare. The wealthy use iPhones, and the rest of us Androids.

Along with Firefox 6 for PCs, today, Mozilla also released the mobile version, which I must say looks damn good. But it feels even better. There's a solidness about the browser that makes it ready, finally, for prime time. Firefox fans, this is the one you've been waiting for.

Google acquiring Motorola Mobility, the maker of Droid smartphones and Xoom tablets for $12.5 billion has shocked the tech industry but what does it mean for the end user? Will the Google and Motorola merger even affect the ordinary user on the street?

Sources inside Apple's supply chain partners say the company has canceled plans for an iPad 3 launch later this year because of production constraints on the Retina Display, DigiTimes reports.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) signed a deal to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) total of $12.5 billion. While Google has assured that the Android will continue to be open source, and thus available to other smartphone makers, questions remain as to how Google will beef up its newly owned Motorola when the Android platform is also being 'freely' made available to Motorola's rivals.

Acer Group Inc., the Taiwanese firm known for the Aspire desktops and laptops, is joining the tablet war with its the 7-inch Acer Iconia Tab and is hoping to cash in the surging demand for smartphones with the wild looking Acer Iconia Smart.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) signed a deal to acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) total of $12.5 billion. While Google has assured that the Android will continue to be open source, and thus available to other smartphone makers, questions remain as to how Google will beef up its newly owned Motorola when the Android platform is also being 'freely' made available to Motorola's rivals.

Black Eyed Peas performer teams up with inventor Dean Kamen on a new television special featuring robotics championships for kids grades K-12. You've likely heard of rapper will.i.am and his highly successful hip hop group "The Black Eyed Peas", but did you also know that he's a passionate proponent of science and technology education? Ot that he's recently been named the Director of Intel's creative innovation program?

It's inescapable. If you want to play Electronic Arts' "Battlefield 3" you need to have an Origin account.

Buy the Focus Electric, and a 2.5-kilowatt rooftop solar panel can be part of the deal. This car charges on zero-emission solar power, which is much cleaner than the dirty grid.

While Washington was busy holding the global markets hostage and placing billions in badly needed R&D funding on the chopping block, a new report from REN21

In spite of industrywide speculation that Apple will announce the next-generation iPhone on September, new reports have moved the launch back to October.

There are more iPads rival tablets sitting in warehouses and stores than current demand for those products. What can rivals learn to advance? Perhaps a review of Economics 101 would give more than just clues to the iPad's success.

Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday that government was considering blocking the use of social media services like FaceBook, Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger to prevent riots.

Scientists have successfully bent light beams around an object on a two dimensional metal surface, opening the door to faster and cheaper computer chips working with light. The demonstration that light can be made to bend on a flat surface has been the subject of fierce academic competition by research groups around the world, including groups from the USA, China, and Korea.

Solar technology set to revolutionise the Army's power needs has been developed by The Australian National University.

An unmanned hypersonic glider, capable of going 20 times the speed of sound or greater was launched early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began flying on its own, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said.

There's a lot of crazy news, it seems, happening around the world: London riots, stock market volatility, rising food inflation, and so on. But the way through all this is to focus on SOLUTIONS that help us be better prepared for the hard times that are already beginning to unfold around us.

Suddenly the same analysts and 'experts' who have been negative on Telstra, are fans after the company reported a smaller than expected fall in earnings for the year to June 30; a result that included rising revenues and profits from mobile phones and telecoms.

Gartner has released worldwide handset sales for the second quarter 2011 based on end-users preference of operating systems installed on smartphones and these aren't good numbers for Microsoft.

Web-based file storage and content sharing service Box.net on Thursday unveiled three new apps for the tablet world: one for Android Honeycomb, one for BlackBerry PlayBook, and one for HTML5-compatible browsers.

HP has decided to permanently cut the price on its TouchPad price by $100 a few days before its official launch in Australia. The TouchPad is due to go on sale through Harvey Norman on 15 August.

Telstra today announced it had returned to EBITDA growth in the second half, with the telco giant exceeding its guidance, and maintaining its 14 cent final dividend.

After deciding to cut TouchPad prices in the U.S., Hewlett Packard has announced that it would also cut HP TouchPad prices in Australia by $100.

Supermarket chain Woolworths is taking grocery shopping to another level by launching an iPhone App that aims to make it easier to navigate through Woolies with an aisle ordered shopping list.

Over the last couple of years, companies have come to view me as a writer who mostly covers Android.

It would appear that U.S. companies are ready to abandon WiMAX.

Piriform has released the third public beta of its forthcoming CCleaner for Mac. Based on the popular Windows version, CCleaner for Mac offers various cleaning tools for parts of the operating system, and is a freeware release.

As of today, Amazon's Kindle e-reader is available on all platforms.