TECHNOLOGY

Apple's iPhone could extend its holiday cheer as recent figures show that it was the highest selling smartphone in the market for the last holiday season.

Consumer electronics company Foxconn wished to double the size of its manpower in its branch in Zhengzhou, China. Is the hiring spree due to the launching of the iPhone 5?

The Kingdom of Thailand has agreed to Twitter's recent move to allow countries to censor tweets. Representatives from the Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have said that they will be working with Twitter to implement this new policy.

While the rest of the tech world is buzzing about the rumored Galaxy S III model that is reportedly being revealed at next month's Mobile World Congress, Samsung went ahead and revealed a new model of the Galaxy S called the Galaxy S Advance.

Apple has been identified as the biggest buyer of semiconductors in 2011.

-- Likelihood of an early recovery in NEC's financial soundness has receded, due to a slowdown in profit improvements as well as costly structural reforms.

Tech companies have earlier forged an informal agreement that allows them to cap employee's salary through an invisible protocol that prohibits the hiring of workers still on active roll of each firm, reports said.

Research in Motion's game plan for the rest of the year was leaked online. The roadmap for the next 15 months reveals that RIM will launch new products later in the year culminating the first BlackBerry device running the new operating system in the latter half of 2012.

Apple Inc. posted record numbers for the last quarter of 2011 with sales of $46.3 billion a tech industry record.

Research in Motion Ltd. named a new CEO Friday replacing Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis at the helm of the troubled Blackberry Maker. As Thorsten Heins steps up to take the reins at RIM, the question is can he still do anything to revitalize the stumbling Research in Motion?

Nokia's gambit may be paying off as reports came out this week that its Lumia product lines breached the one million mark by the end of December last year, boosting the company's efforts to recover its lost ground soon.

The Australian Stock Market has recorded early morning gains as of 10: 16 AM, the benchmark The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index is up 22.6 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 4309, while the broader All Ordinaries index is up 23.5 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4247.7. Analysts are optimistic of the day's trading, sharing new leads and market insights.

Google's new search feature called Google Search Plus has garnered a lot of attention since it launched last week with critics like Twitter slamming the search giant for favoritism towards Google's social network. The new search feature is now being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a source inside the U.S. regulatory body.

Taking pictures would never be the same again as Eastman Kodak Company; the firm that invented the hand-held camera recently filed for bankruptcy protection and also announced that the company has plans to cut-down significantly.

Research in Motion, maker of the struggling BlackBerry smartphones, announced on Sunday the resignation of the company's two CEOs following series of disappointments that saw the once leading firm lagging behind from competitors.

PayPal and Office Depot are reportedly testing the former's new payment method, called by experts as 'wallet in the cloud', that allows consumers with PayPal account to actually make in-store purchases, reports said.

Samsung has denied rumors about a potential buyout of Blackberry maker, Research in Motion after a technology blog reported the South Korean firm was interested in buying RIM.

Apple is credited for introducing the tablet computers to the world, but Samsung gave the world a choice. By comparing the iPad with the Galaxy Tab 7.0, it is easy to narrow down the similarities and differences between the two remarkable devices.

Research in Motion Ltd. will release the updated Playbook operating system in February that would include a new native calendar and contact applications, as well as better integration for E-mail, LinkedIn and Twitter. RIM is hoping the new update will lure developers and consumers to support its Playbook OS 2.0 but this update could be too late to reverse the Playbook's fortune.

While its competitors either hold off or cut back new investments, Samsung Group boldly announced on Tuesday plans for more investments this year, estimated to reach more than $41 billion, reports said.

Jerry Yang built-up his name by transforming a start-up tech firm into a multi-billion dollar global company, becoming the toast of the tech world in so short a time, which lasted until Yahoo's gradual and eventual decline.

It was a case of 'video killed the radio star' scenario as personal computers, latest industry figures showed PCs continuing their gradual decline, no thanks to the rising dominance of mobile devices.

The Consumer Electronics Show is over and the only thing left to do is mop up the losers of the biggest electronics trade show of the year. Here are some gadgets and companies that made a poor showing at CES 2012.

Apple Inc.'s next generation iPad 3 is already in full production in China and is expected to go on sale on March.

Tech titan Apple has reported marked improvements on working environments of employees hired by the company's mostly Asian contractors to assemble its bestselling electronic devices. Nevertheless, there is still much needed to be done.

Apple Inc. suspended its sale of its new iPhone 4S in China Friday after irate shoppers pelted Apple's flagship Beijing store with eggs and fought with security guards in a desperate bid to get their hands on the new device.

The iOS has obtained exclusivity of the virtual assistant SIRI and gained remarkable scores and comments from users and critics. It has made iOS smartphones unique against the Android devices by defining the meaning of intelligence. However, the virtual assistant is still in development for best usage in a lot of countries.

The plant unrest at a Foxconn Technology Group plant at Wuhan, China has been resolved and a majority of the workers have returned to work late Wednesday, according to Microsoft Corp.

Wall Street Journal reported that camera manufacturer Eastman Kodak Company was preparing to file for bankruptcy in the next few weeks.