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Apple has announced that the iPhone 4S will make its debut in Hong Kong and 14 other countries on Nov. 11. In addition to Hong Kong, the new iPhone will make its debut on the same day in Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Po...

Just a few minutes after Apple admitted there were battery problems with its iOS 5.0 upgrade, the company seeded a beta version 5.0.1 of the software to developers that fixes that bug and more. In the prerelease version of iOS 5.0.1 for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple says the new software:...

Apple has confirmed that some iPhone customers are experiencing lower battery performance after upgrading to iOS 5. Users started complaining about the battery life of the iPhone 4S soon after the device’s debut. In the last week, additional complaints have surfaced regarding iOS 5 in gener...

Twitter is testing a new feature that highlights a link labeled as “top news” or a profile labeled “top people” at the top of its real-time search results. For a small percentage of users, searching for a topic such as “South Park” or a hashtag such as “#...

Research In Motion‘s shares hit a seven-year low Wednesday after a report highlighted the decline of the company’s flagship BlackBerry smartphone. According to a report by Canalys, RIM’s share of the U.S. market was 9% in the third quarter compared with 24% a year earlier, marki...

Google began rolling out its new look for Gmail Tuesday. According to an update on Gmail’s blog, it’s now available for everyone. For now, you can choose whether or not you want the new Gmail, but it’s likely to switch over for all eventually. Here are nine things you should know a...

Google isn’t the only unorthodox player moving into the offline payments space. PayPal, like the search giant and Visa, is planning to launch a “Wallet” product that aims to replace traditional credit cards at registers. “If someone had told me ten years ago that PayPal ...

ESPN writer Bill Williamson wrote an innocent article Sunday about NFL quarterback Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos, which has sparked an entirely unexpected viral backlash in its comments. Tebow’s inconsistency as a passer has led to much derision from NFL fans, and was the topic of William...

Hackers have used a security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to infect computers with the the Duqu virus, Microsoft admits. “We are working diligently to address this issue and will release a security update for customers,” Microsoft said in a statement. The Duqu virus, wh...

Efforts to kill a proposed bill that some believe will let the government censor and control Internet content are gaining traction. We The People, the government’s official, crowdsourced petition site, is hosting a petition to kill the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, informally known as th...