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One of the best and "feel-good" innovations of the new iPhone can wake you up not with its sizzling sound, but with the real smell of bacon.

Apple is currently working on a more intelligent Siri for the iWatch. The company wants that Siri can interact with third-party services and apps more closely. Apple has deals with some partners such as OpenTable for Siri and Yelp, but the goal is for the digital assistant to work with any app.

Apple has announced the CarPlay infotainment service at the International Motor Show in Geneva will be held from March 6-16.

Microsoft Windows XP users have been warned by pop-up alerts and Web pages in the Internet that Microsoft will end its support for the venerable operating system by April 8. Also, there will be no security patches, bug fixes and software updates for the OS.

Facebook's $19 billion Whatsapp megadeal has recently dropped jaws in technology and financial headlines. But the social media giant is far from being done.

Technology can produce wealth, when tapped rightfully. When Forbes gives its list of the world’s wealthiest people, topping the list is no less than a man from technology – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Another figure from tech, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the top earner of the year.

Oppo Find 7 is seen again in a leaked photo uploaded in Chinese microblogging Weibo, this time revealing a 50-megapixel monster camera. A few days before its debut, this Oppo flagship smartphone is also heard to be released in two screen versions.

Despite pleading guilty to rape, two counts of indecent assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, a Brit lad avoided custodial sentence and would soon go home. The 13-year-old was 12 when he raped his then 7-year-old sister after watching porn from the Internet using the family Xbox.

Samsung Galaxy S5 is making waves in at least two pre-registration pages. It is making scores that soar higher than what the Galaxy S4 got during its infancy.

Samsung is adding sugar to Galaxy S5 with loads of freebies all worth $575. It announced on Monday March 3 that customers who will get their hands on Galaxy S5 will enjoy a bunch of freebies in the form of subscriptions to some apps that just make sense.

Microsoft’s plans with regards to Xbox Live were revealed in a job listing which the company confirmed later. The Xbox Live wants to make the social gaming service the ultimate platform mobile devices.

Samsung Galaxy S5 is a star in last night’s Oscars. It debuted its first ad and turns sponsorship into all-star selfies. It got for itself a taste of limelight again – for the second time after the mobile world congress 2014 in Barcelona.

The upcoming HTC All New One has another teaser. The video which is uploaded onto YouTube gives a software and a hardware tour of the smartphone.

With Apple iPhone 6, Apple TV, Ios 8, iWatch and iTV, its seems Apple has a lot up its sleeves for 2014.

Google becoming more food-centric can provide practical assistance to many users. A new article from TechCrunch said Google will have a new feature to help food lovers choose a menu as it will try to showcase restaurant menus in the actual result pages.

Apple iPhone 5S still tops the list as the best handset of the month. After the recently concluded MWC 2014 in Barcelona Spain, the newly launched smartphones in the Mobile World Congress may make moves to catch up but mostly their availability will still be next quarter.

Windows with Bing, is a free trial version of Windows 8.1 which is thought to be a placeholder when operating systems will become free in the future. Updates will be announced on April 2, during the Microsoft’s Build Conference.

The new Google Chrome Beta is finally bringing the hands-free voice search feature that Google has been working on in the past few years. It can now handle voice searches on the search box of the Chrome browser.

Police had arrested the two women, 21-year-old Lana Janet Watmough and 17-year-old Layni Gloria Cameron, who physically assaulted Paul Buttigied a 77-year-old man on Tuesday afternoon aboard a Surfside bus travelling through Kirra in Gold Coast. Their abuse was capture on a mobile phone camera by a 13-year-old girl named Rebecca and was uploaded to YouTube and had become viral with more than 30,000 hits so far.

A 39-second video has gone viral in social media, showing a young woman aggressively berating a man, presumed to be her boyfriend, and assaulting him several times on the groin.

Black is an Android smartphone which main purpose is for data security. This Boeing-made phone selects its market and cannot be repaired. Any attempt to tamper the phone will trigger it to self-destruct.

Project Ara is developing a prototype of a modular smartphone which can be sold in the market at $50; but can be transformed into a high-end unit by its owners.

There is a new teaser of the HTC One successor by HTC Corporation, which hints of what the next flagship phone’s name will be. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese phone maker launched two mid-range phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – HTC Desire 816 and Desire 610.

Motorola is keeping up with the pace of other phone makers as it will launch another version of the Moto X handset as well as a smartwatch this year. The company promised that it will not slow down even with the Google-Lenovo deal, and when it will be under the new owner, Chinese company Lenovo.

The mean girls are back. Not the actresses who starred in a movie about misbehaving female students, but two Australian women who attacked a blind elderly man on a Gold Coast bus.

Samsung Galaxy S5, the recently unveiled flagship smartphone, comes up with a 5.1 inch screen, slightly bigger (but still increasing) from its predecessor Galaxy S4 which has a 5-inch display. The company’s Galaxy S line never drop in its screen size since 2010 and the market is now clearly and strongly demanding for bigger screens. This trend is apart from the old adage in electronics that “smaller is better.”

Just two days after Samsung revealed Galaxy S5 at MWC 2014, Goophone also unveiled its recent smartphone, the Goophone S5 which looks like a replica of Samsung’s device. Goophone S5 was also unveiled in the same annual event, offering an alternative way to own a Galaxy S5.

Microsoft Windows Phone has a good standing occupying the top three positions in the operating system industry. International Data Corporation (IDC) reported Google's platform Android may retain its top spot this year among the other platforms with 78.9 percent share of the global market.

Several companies debut in the Mobile World Congress this week some of their handsets, whose price is below $200. Nokia Corp. has introduced the new line Nokia X that runs Android OS with a price starting at $120. BlackBerry unveiled Z3, which costs under $200. It will come out to the market in Indonesia this spring, then to Southeast Asia. Other companies are already offering mobile devices for less than $100.