Carlo Fernandez

While Berlin's annual consumer electronics fair has previously been a showcase of home appliances from TVs to fridges, it has become a battleground for manufacturers of wireless gadgets.

Sleek designs and fantastic user interface are usually synonymous with Apple. Nonetheless, tablets using the Android platform might finally have a browser that makes the Apple's Safari browser unattractive.

Even the gods have been playing favorites. Samsung was scheduled to unveil on Aug. 29 the Galaxy S2 in the United States, the world's largest economy. But what could be a record launch of "the best smartphone that is not an iPhone", we have Hurricane Irene causing massive blackouts, billions in damages, and at least 44 deaths. Aug. 29 would have been a brilliant timing, as Tim Cook is still rearranging the furniture at Apple's executive offices after being abruptly asked to succe...

Here are top 10 stupid and lamest reasons why Steve Jobs is leaving the limelight before the iPhone 5 is unveiled.

People are now asking -- who will be the next Steve Jobs?

NAME: Steven Paul Jobs AGE: 56 BORN: Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs

Other than the upcoming products of Apple, there are questions whether the new CEO will have the unique insights, charisma, vigor or even luck that exiting Steve Jobs had.

After unveiling the iPad 2 tablet, the Mac OS X Lion operating system, the iCloud, the MacBook Air laptops, Apple Inc. made its biggest announcement this year on Wednesday, and its not the highly anticipated iPhone 5: Steve Jobs is resigning as chief executive of Apple.

There is a lesson to be learned from the 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.

Even before E.T. and his friends return, some entities already here on earth are set for world domination. After Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be giving up the tablet business (notwithstanding that it has yet to recover anything from the $1.2 billion it paid to buy Palm Inc's WebOS last year), HP TouchPad's prices were slashed from $399 to $99 per unit. Immediately, demand for the tablet skyrocketed.

New owners or would-be buyers shouldn't despair. In this case, here are Top 10 cool and crazy but amazing "useful" (or "lame") suggestions for a new lease on life for the dying HP TouchPad,

Hewlett-Packard had high hopes for its HP TouchPad: being the largest vendor of desktops and laptops, it had hoped that its tablet would be able to compete with Apple's iPad.

A report this week from 9to5mac.com, citing sources inside Apple, says that the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been deciding between an Oct. 7 or Oct. 14 launch date. . If Apple waits for next year, it won't be able to join other vendors taking advantage of lucrative sales during the holiday season.

Sony Corp. is dropping the price of its PlayStation 3 gaming console by US$50 or 17 percent, as it looks to spur demand for the 5-year old console ahead of the year-end shopping season. Taiwan-based component makers, DigiTimes reported that production on the PS4 will start at the end of this year, and the new console will be launched next year.

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.

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.

Ratings agencies usually do not give a company a rating higher than its home country's sovereign rating. Are the tech giants then suffering the domino effect of the U.S. downgrade?

According to research firm IDC, the smartphone market has recently crowned a new leader, and its name is Apple. Though many have been asking why the iPhone 5 is still not available in the Apple Store, the question that matters to Jobs is... Do they really need to release the iPhone 5 at this time?

Users of the Internet Explorer DON'T have lower IQ than users of other browsers like Safari and Opera after all. BBC reported that the research released by Canadian firm ApTiquant is bogus.

Hoping to hit the bulls eye, RIM is launching not just one but five arrows: RIM is releasing 5 new BlackBerry smartphones based on the BlackBerry 7 Operating System in its largest roll-out ever.

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, has reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is intensifying an investigation into whether Apple and other tech giants could use the Nortel patents to unfairly hobble competing smartphones using Google's Android software.

South Korea-based Samsung has agreed to stop advertising or selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia until a lawsuit between the two are resolved.

Sony Computer Entertainment announced Tuesday that long-time partner Sucker Punch Productions is joining the global development operation of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS).

According to a research firm, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has moved ahead of Finnish handset maker Nokia, with its flagship Galaxy S II product performing well. But Samsung's overall performance was underwhelming, considering the opportunities offered by the upheaval at Nokia, according to research firm Canalys.

Adobe, the software company famous for its Flash software running the online animation, video and graphics on most computers, unveiled a preview of its latest software called Adobe Edge.

The iPad-optimized Skype application made its official debut on the Apple App Stores and iTunes August 1. However, not long after the app appeared for download, Skype removed the new app.

According to reports, Apple is releasing the iPhone 5 this year, but has again delayed the release of the new device to October due to another series of setbacks.