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Apple is set to revolutionise the textbook and education industries by announcing new partnerships with publishers at a media event in New York this month, reports claim.

Pirated copies of ebooks are being distributed online for free, even before the printed copies are released, and account for 20 percent of all ebook downloads.

Apple and Google are interested in bidding for the right to broadcast live Premier League football on their respective TV streaming services, according to the Daily Mail.

BlackBerry is still struggling to sell its cursed PlayBook, slashing the price of its iPad rival yet again, this time to just $299 for all models.

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).

Reports suggest Acer and Lenovo are both preparing a series of Windows 8 tablets for release in the third quarter of 2012.

Apple is tipped to be holding a media event in New York at the end of this month, with the emphasis thought to be on publishing rather than the rumoured iPad 3.

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Apple Inc. has long been known for ground-breaking technological innovations and its latest quest - to acquire fuel-cell patents - could further strengthen the company's portfolio of 17,000 software patents. Indeed, Apple could silently planning an eco-friendly substitute for existing chemical batteries by acquiring fuel-cell patents to power its devices.

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

Jailbreak Apple TV 2G untethered using Sas0nPass based on pod2g's exploit. iOS app tweaks for the Apple TV are also in the making. Watch the exclusive video for a better insight into the working of the iOS apps running on the 2G set-top-box.

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.

The American "Made in the U.S.A" foundation has issued a statement attacking Apple for its use of "virtual slave labour," calling for Occupy protesters to "turn their anger" towards the iPhone maker.

Boy’s mother shocked after Apple's automated voice gadget blurts foul-mouthed insult in supermarket

Amazon sold more than one million Kindle ebook readers a week during December, making various Kindles the first, second and third most popular products in the entire Amazon U.S. catalogue.

Apple has reportedly filed a patent on Facial Recognition software for mobile platform with the intention of adding this feature on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Macbook devices.

Microsoft Leaked Roadmap predicts the arrival of Tango after Mango, later followed by Apollo coinciding with the release of superphones in 2012. Expect a massive three way battle with Apple's iPhone 5 and the rest of the Android brigade.

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).

A tech blog has claimed that the iPhone 5 will drop the famously fragile glass back in favour of an aluminium case similar to that of the iPad 2.

Few companies create such a whirlwind of speculation around fictional productsas Apple and 2011 proved to be another rumour-packed year.

Rumours of an Apple television continue to gain momentum, with the ever-present Digitimes reporting that the next-generation TV will arrive in the second quarter of 2012.

According to macdailynews.com, Steve Jobs, the late co- founder and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc., not only developed and grew his company's interests while he was alive but has also left blueprints for future Apple products.

The controversies surrounding the release of iPhone 5 gains momentum, as the iPhone fans get restless amidst the long wait for the elusive phone.

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

The hype surrounding the iPhone 5 and its delayed release has been considerable for some time now. Rumors aside, the death of Steve Jobs (a day after the iPhone 4S was released) and the seemingly endless war of patent disputes with rivals Samsung may have threatened the device's release.

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

iPhone is doing good business in the UK pushing the sales to 30.9% in past 12 weeks. In operating system however Google's Android continues to be the market leader.

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.

A trailer for the spoof film 'Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie' has caused a stir on YouTube and features a group of friends being hunted down and killed by their iPhone.