TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Electronics Co. filed a countersuit against Apple in Australia, while also appealing a German court ruling, intensifying a global legal dispute between the two tech companies.

From highly anticipated, the iPhone 5 is turning out as old and out of style, i.e. if you believe Martin Fichter, acting president of HTC America. He says that iPhones are not that cool anymore as his daughters college classmates are now touting Android phones from Samsung Electronics and HTC.

Canada-based Research In Motion Ltd. might share the same fate.When PlayBook was released, RIM's best-case scenario was it would be able to sell a tablet version of the BlackBerry. The worst-case scenario, was like the others, RIM's tablet couldn't gain ground against Apple Inc.'s iPad.

An ex-Samsung manager has admitted that he leaked early information about the iPad to representatives from an "expert network" firm and a hedge fund

Facebook is postponing its initial public offering (IPO) planned in October or November and will go public late next year instead.

Apple is reportedly planning an upgrade to its MacBook Pro notebooks with a marginal speed bump in time for the holiday season.

Sleek, stylish and modern are some of the words apt to describe the new Windows 8 courtesy of Bill Gates’ Microsoft.

The billions of dollars in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's bank account must have inspired so many young technology geeks in the U.S. that they are following the footsteps the Internet mogul took when he was in university.

Microsoft has expressed optimism on Wednesday that despite the worldwide slide on sales of personal computers, Windows will remain relevant in the tech world that has largely been transformed by mobile computing.

Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, is now officially live.

In a press conference, Sony Corp said it is set to kick off the global rollout of its new PlayStation Vita on Dec. 17 in Japan. NTT Docomo, Japan's biggest mobile carrier, will provide prepaid 3G plans for PS Vita users. Although criticized for setting a high price, Sony said in August there was no need to cut the price of the PS Vita from the announced figure of 24,980 yen ($325) for a Wi-fi only model and 29,980 yen ($390) for a 3G plus Wi-fi version.

Australian gamers will have a reason to celebrate this season as Microsoft announced that it has slashed the price on its Xbox 360 and Kinect bundles by AU$50 in time for the Christmas season.

Sony announced that it will launch its next generation handheld device, the PlayStation Vita on December 17 in Japan but insisted that it will not reduce the price of the device despite its rival Nintendo slashing the price of its console.

Buggy or not, due to popular demand, we're giving a quick guide on how to install Minecraft 1.8:

Microsoft gave developers a taste of its new OS at the company's Build conference on Tuesday in California when Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows team, offered a full preview of its upcoming Windows 8.

Microsoft Corp. is unleashing next year Windows 8, its first operating system designed to work for personal computers, tablets and smartphones. But before the Redmond, Washington-based firm could extend its market dominance to mobile devices, it's possible that Google will launch a serious attack at Microsoft's forte: the desktop and laptops. Google, developer of the world's top-selling smartphone platform, will likely be an "Android" to PCs. It's not a question of if but ra...

Now, Nintendo President Satoru said in a briefing in Tokyo on Tuesday that Nintendo is hoping to woo female customers by unveiling a misty pink version of the Nintendo 3DS. Iwata also said that more features will be added, including a function that allows users to record movies in 3-D, changes to Street Pas Mii Plaza and eShop, and a 1,500-yen expansion slide pad.

HTC execs told Taiwan's Central News Agency that it has had internal discussions about purchasing a new OS. The likely candidate would be Hewlett-Packard's webOS, according to reports.

With 100 million users at the start of this year, Twitter now faces the challenge and mounting pressure to go public. An analysis of the social networking site's future moves and motives.

The United States government grants tax incentives to companies working on medical breakthroughs, urban redevelopment and alternatives to fossil fuels, the results of which could improve lives worldwide. However, the US government also grants tax breaks for the video game industry. Tax analysts are asking, “Why?” In a country that provides tax breaks for a company that created a video game about killing space zombies, tax analysts are baffled, to say the least.

In an act that could be classified as part of a larger global legal war between Apple and Samsung, a German court banned Korean firm Samsung from selling an iPad-like computer tablet in Germany, ruling it had emulated the iPad.

YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley have another project in the works, a new revamped version of the social bookmarking site Delicious.

Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, has been leaked.

Microsoft Corp. will host a conference this week where Windows 8 and other new products are expected to be unveiled. But there are things we'd love to see at the event but won't.

Rumors of the iPhone 5 should be over in just a few weeks. An internal memo from U.S. carrier Sprint says that employees can't take time-off during Sept. 30 to Oct. 15 due to a major phone release. The memo backs rumors that Apple Inc.'s long delayed but highly anticipated iPhone 5 will be released in early October.

Outages are occurring too often. Up to 365 million users of Microsoft Corp.'s e-mail and cloud services worldwide were scratching their heads at the end of the week: Hotmail, Skydrive, Office 365, and others Windows Live service were inaccessible. Though service was restored in a couple of hours for most, the downtime was the second in 30 days.

With an iPhone 5 release date expected in October, all talk has been about Apple's yet to be unveiled smartphone.

Apple's popular iPad is a hot commodity with consumers but can they be used to make your business better?Here are 6 ways other companies have tailored the iPad to make a better customer experience and enhance their overall service.

In a move that has come to define the dog-eat-dog business world, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz was fired this week. Bartz has come back at this perceived betrayal with some expressive comments directed at the board of directors of the internet company.