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Google gets 217 IBM patents

Breaking from the flagship Galaxy Nexus' assault on Apple's main iPhone base, Samsung has unveiled two new low-price devices aimed to conquer the affordable smartphone market.

Latest development on the newest tablet Amazon Kindle Fire shows that the little tablet has reduced the sales of the Goliath-like iPad tablet versions during the Holiday season.

Reports suggesting Motorola is working on a mysterious new upgrade for its Xoom series of tablets has led to fresh speculation of an Ice Cream Sandwich update.

Samsung’s flagship smartphone Galaxy S2 took all the limelight in 2011, leading the charts for almost eight to 10 months in a row until Apple’s iPhone 4S arrived.

Reports suggest Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS is looking to take a slice of the Kindle Fire's action, unveiling its own 7-inch Android tiny-titan at 2012's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

The year 2011 saw some tech leaps as well as flops. Here are the top 5 mobile tech glitches.

The Apple Inc. iPhone reportedly outsold Android devices at AT&T corporate retail stores by a whopping 7.8-to-1 ratio between Dec. 1 and Dec. 27. Apparently, those AT&T stores sold about 981,000 iPhones during the period, accounting for a heavy 66 percent of the turnover.

Rumours suggest Samsung's fabled follow up to the perennially popular Galaxy S2 is set to make its debut at 2012's Mobile World Conference (MWC).

Apple has failed to realize its mistake in a bid to dominate the smartphone and tablet industry with patent lawsuits against its rivals. There is no real innovation happening in the native camp, while its rivals are striving hard to move ahead with new product designs and technological advancements.

Samsung, the Korean smartphone giant, on Friday announced on one of its promotional blogs that it had dropped the idea of porting Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade to its Galaxy S smartphone or the 7-inch Galaxy Tablet. Since then, widespread arguments and heated debates on the issue have been escalating amongst the Android user community.

Since the public expectations have been so overwhelming with the debut of Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for smartphones, it is no surprise that leading smartphone manufacturers are capitalizing on the demand.

Reports suggest Google Inc. is in hot water over an Android patents war, with fellow corporate giants like Oracle, Microsoft and Apple.

Korean mobile phones giant, Samsung Group, has unleashed its first set of dual-SIM Android phones - the Galaxy Y Duos and the Galaxy Y Pro Duos.

Take a quick look at the respective position and market share of the top selling smartphones here.

A first look on the advent of Ice Cream Sandwich on a platter of Samsung smartphones and Tablets. Get a closer look with interface pictures on Ice Cream Sandwich.

iOS was the first mobile operating system launched, on Oct. 12, 2000. Back then, it was known as the iPhone OS, named as it was after Apple's flagship smartphone series. A year later, the Android OS made its debut, with the launch of HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1). Windows, a late entrant to the sphere, introduced their software in 2012.

Google has announced that an incredible 750,000 Android smartphone and tablets are being activated every single day; that's 255,000,000 per year, or eight every second, fact fans.

Proving bullet-proof to Apple's ongoing slew of patent infringement accusations, new research suggests Samsung has toppled the iPhone maker, becoming Australia and New Zealand's favourite smartphone provider.

Sony managed to sell 321,400 PlayStation Vitas in the games console's opening two days of sales this week, but this is slightly lower than Nintendo managed with its competitor, the 3DS.

In a recent interview Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt let slip news that the company plans to escalate its ongoing war for market supremacy with Apple, releasing its own-brand Android tablet.

Android users visit Facebook on their smartphones more often than iPhone users, with 68.2 percent returning to the application every single day.

British Telecom has sued Google's Android mobile operating system, as it believes that the software infringes six patents in its Maps, Music and Android Market applications.

With the Christmas season now upon us and the question of which smartphone to get re-opened, the International Business Times UK's dynamic tech duo take the time to sum up the strengths and weaknesses of this year's top-contenders, the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S.

A new alleged leak has emerged claiming the exact tech spec of Sony Ericsson's fabled Xperia Arc HD, or 'Nozomi' as it is sometimes referred.

Facebook announced today that Timeline, a radical overhaul of users' profile pages that documents their lives, is now available to everyone.

Free Windows Phones will be given away to five Android users who share the worst malware horror stories, Ben Rudolph has said.

It is believed that Google Android will launch its own rival to Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant featured on the iPhone 4S.

Press shots of the high-anticipated handset has surfaced online ahead of the official launch

A new study by security firm ViaForensics suggests Google Wallet doesn't protect users' personal data, storing it in an unencrypted format.