TECHNOLOGY

BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India could not email, send instant message and surf the web on Monday.

Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S reached one million on Friday breaking the record first-day sale set by the iPhone 4 last year.

Samsung Electronics Co., the biggest rival to Apple Inc. in the mobile devices and which is involved in a number of expensive courtroom battles with the Steve Jobs-founded company, scheduled an Oct. 11 launch for the Samsung Nexus Prime, the first smartphone powered by the Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

Apple concept store will open at the heart of Wellington.

Max Payne has undergone a makeover in the years since Max Payne 2. He's shaved his head, ditched his trademark trench coat in favor of a wife beater and he's changed locations to Brazil. But underneath the cosmetic changes, Payne is still the same tortured noir hero gamers have played in two previous iterations and new developer Rockstar Games has kept the same fluid bullet-time combat that made the series a landmark in gaming.

Gold Coast start-up IT firm Cake Media launched on Monday an Australian social networking site named Family HQ. The portal, which used Microsoft's Azure software platform, promises more user privacy compared to current top social networking site Facebook.

Until Steve Jobs came along, apple was the name of a popular fruit often portrayed as the fruit that Biblical character Eve offered to Adam, which resulted in the two being banished by God from the Garden of Eden.

For those frustrated with failure's to announce the iPhone 5 last at the "Let's Talk iPhone" event week, the 15-month wait for the fifth generation iPhone will get longer, by four to twelve months.

Apple’s upcoming products will bear Steve Jobs’ vision.

Private funeral for Steve Jobs held today. No public services planned.

The main man behind Apple secures the company and employees with four years worth of plans for new products.

Customers who are looking for an affordable tablet can stop looking. Lenovo has begun taking pre-orders for its IdeaPad A1 for $199 for 2Gb of storage space.

HTC has launched a new mobile phone that features a 4.7-inch screen and Dr.Dre's Beats Audio technology.

While outpourings of sympathy for Steve Jobs's family continue, not everyone is sad of the demise of the technology innovator who died on Wednesday at age 56.

Several TouchPad tablets running the Android operating system have been shipped out to consumers, although Hewlett-Packard denying authorizing the shipment.

A 19-year-old design student from Hong Kong, Jonathan Mak, created a tribute to the late co-founder of Apple during his resignation from Apple. Little did he know that his design would go viral all over the world in the wake of Steve Job's death.

A novel based on the popular xBox game Halo of Microsoft Studios is coming out for sure but its legions of fans would like a movie adaptation more. So it was not surprising that rumors of a Halo movie is circulating again in gaming circles after the latest press release on the book "Halo: Cryptum" by Greg Bear hinted a film adaptation coming in theaters next year.

Samsung Electronics admitted in its third-quarter forecast Friday that its profit for the period may fall below expectations with slow sales of its flat-screen TVs and computer chips. But a booming smartphone and tablet business still produced a $3.5 billion profit.

Australians are waiting for the decision of Federal Court Justice Annbelle Bennett on the legal dispute between Apple and Samsung over the release of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.

There is no doubt about it that the enigma behind Apple' success is Steve Jobs and his "methodology" that was described by his former nemesis John Sculley, Apple CEO from 1983 to 1993, as "different from everyone else's since he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things that you decide not to do."

Although the iPhone continues to be the best-selling smartphone globally and investors have not reacted negatively on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's death, the most valuable company in the world may have less leverage when it comes to future media deals.

Investors and consumers reacted differently to the Wednesday death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. While investors in stock markets let go of the Apple shares after the news of his demise. Consumers, on the other, hand snapped up more of the Apple gadgets.

Most Australians prefer the iPhone, and for the first time overtaking Nokia as the Aussie's first choice in mobile phones.

Apple founder Steve Jobs may have passed away, but the technological legacy he left behind continues to live on as consumers purchase iMacs, iPods, iPhones and iPads the company manufactures.

Apple founder Steve Jobs may have left a legacy of billion units of iMacs, iPods, iPhones and iPads that people the world over use everyday.

"I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."This was Steve Jobs' announcement when he resigned as chief executive of Apple. An announcement that eerily echoed a foreboding of the future.

The death of Steve Jobs, the creative genius who created a whole new world of technology, shocked the whole world. Though there were some rumors spreading about his health condition in the past year, people are not expecting that the man who helped in building greatness to every Apple product will lose his fight against pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs's net worth is $8.3 billion. Who will inherit the product of his hard work?

Jobs was the knight in shining armour when he led Apple from the brink of extinction to a top shelf level among the world's most coveted and priceless companies before his death yesterday on 5 October 2011.