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Samsung’s Asian roll out of the Galaxy S3 Mini comes with the JellyBean flavour naturally whipped out by Google with the Android 4.1.2, numerous blog reports said.

Central Planners are the Reason Why the US Economy is Broke

A Forbes.com contributor named the controversy-ridden Instagram as the top tech company of 2012. Tanya Prive, the contributor, said the list was based on exits, valuations by A+++ investors and rapid growth.

Samsung continues to prove that phablet is now a device market mainstay, disclosing earlier this week that the Galaxy Note 2 has garnered more than one million sales in South Korea alone.

Sustaining the interest of such passive gamers, who only tries to pass the time and all of a sudden be muddled in some other work load and day-to-day existence are the source of a major concern for online game creator Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA).

Even though the U.K. saw house prices drop for a sixth month in December, it has still true jewels which cannot be described as cheap and average at all. Lloyds TSB issued its annual list of most expensive streets in the U.K. Not surprisingly, London has once again outperformed other cities in the competition as all from the top ten are located in the capital of the U.K.

Google’s Nexus 7 is making a splash this New Year – emerging on eBay at discounted price and being ported with a mobile OS from a bygone era.

With only a few hours left until New Year's Eve, France might to be in a Champagne mood as sales of its world-known sparkling wine are decreasing in Europe amid the European debt crisis.

New research, which was conducted by the Scotch Whisky Association, shows that Scotch whisky enters its "second golden era" as it generates over £4 billion per year. The undeniable position of Scotch whisky in the Scotland's economy is mainly driven by overseas investment.

While the world is becoming more computer-dependent, children are not anymore interested in traditional toys. Little ones are just drawn to tablet computers.

BG Group just borrowed $1.8 billion from the US Export-Import Bank to close the funding gap in its Queensland Curtis Island Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project. Cost blowout has escalated to $20 billion that BG had to source additional funding for the resource venture.

The Australian share market started the day in the red just off 18-month highs. Global market ended lower on Friday night as many European exchange worked through the last day of trading for the year. In the US the DOW JONES eased by 158 points and the NASDAQ also closed lower as the stalemate continued over US budget talks. Rumours that President Obama had no fresh proposals to advance to Congressional leaders for weekend Budget talks hit our market in early trade as investors sold out of minin...

Apple products remain off limits for family members of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the wife of the software billionaire confirmed in a radio interview Friday last week.

Not to be outdone, Huawei has let loose its own smartphone flavour by image leaks that tech blog sites quickly picked up. It is a supersized 6.1-inch smartphone that numerous blog reports said will be known as Ascend Mate.

Giant Chinese telecom firm ZTE is all set to play the high-end smartphone game with a slew of devices that the company plans to unveil come the 2013 CES gadget showcase next week in Las Vegas.

Chinese resources company, Hanlong Group, will have a greater say in global iron ore prices in 2013 as the firm completes the buy-in process of the Mbalam iron ore mine in Africa from Australian miner Sundance Resources (ASX: SDL).

Rooting Motorola RAZR M is now easy and unrooting the device is simple too. Users are always warned about rooting any device due to warranty void but unrooting it will definitely restore back the warranty as if nothing happened.

Gaming before was exclusive to console devices such as Xbox and Playstation and then later to PC units with multiplayer features too. However, in the last decade, games flourished in portable devices including smartphones and Android is becoming more prominent in the gaming world today.

In 2013, more Android devices will receive Jellybean updates, but most likely will have 4.1 firmware versions instead of the 4.2.1. HTC One X+ users will not expect just an update yet of Jellybean 4.2.1 version, so Cyanogen mod developers provided a stable Jellybean 4.2.1 firmware.

The new Samsung Galaxy S4 will have thinner shell and wider screen, likely reaching 5.0-inch mark, based on a rendering video prepared by a Russian website.

Google’s Nexus 4 remains out of reach but fans of the popular but hard to get smartphone have devised ways to make the waiting a bit easier. If you are one of the many wanting to own the LG-manufactured handset, head out to Google Play store now.

Beijing will introduce tough new laws as well as an "accountability system" to crackdown on rampant food safety violations, the official Xinhua news agency reported, a significant move aimed at the elimination of food scandals that have claimed several lives in recent years.

The Australian sharemarket continued on its strong run, rising for the third straight session and for the 12th time in 14 trading days. Local equities are still at 18-month highs. Global market ended mixed overnight, with the Dow easing by 0.1 per cent, Germany's DAX edged higher by 0.3 per cent while France's CAC40 jumped by 0.6 per cent. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rose by 0.5 per cent or 23.9 pts to 4685.3.

Transactions paid through credit cards may soon become a bygone era in Australia as telco carriers in the land Down Under study the possibility of enabling consumers to pay for purchased goods by using one's very own mobile phone or tablet.

Despite falls on Wall Street overnight, local stocks are holding onto 17 month highs in thin trade.

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and South China Sea Institute of Oceanology researchers blamed China's economic boom for the shrinkage by at least 80 per cent of coral reefs in the region over the past three decades.

Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) reactivated its plan to boost its production target of iron ore to 155 million tonnes a year due to improved prices of the commodity in global markets.

Mac and iPad uses their internal hard drives for both running and storing data. The best way to avoid piling up data inside these devices is by using an external hard drives and transfer them if not usually used. The internal hard drive, like any other smartphones or computers, records traces of programs, applications and other tasks and stores cache memory for faster access the next time a user accesses it.

Samsung has finally announced the upcoming update for the Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 with the Android Jellybean Premium Suite.