The much anticipated, hyped and discussed Apple’s smaller variant of iPad is here , Apple also introduced a whole host of upgrades to its products — including a surprise new version of the full iPad just seven months after the third generation iPad was unveiled at the company’s special event at California Theatre. Apple’s senior vice president Phil Shiller took the stage and introduced [...]

EE has outlined its contract and handset pricing for broadband and 4G mobile services in the UK, its entry level 500MB bundle starting at £36 for 24 months. The high speed network roll out will start in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield initially and by the end of the year this will spread to Belfast, Derby, Hull, Newcastle, Nottingham [...]

Researchers  at Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg in Germany have  uncovered  41 Android apps in the Google Play store that are leaking sensitive data due to “Man-in-the-middle” attack,  ranging from credit card information and email content to social networking site passwords. “Man-in-the-middle” attacker creates a fake Wi-Fi hotspot and uses a specially [...]

Apparently, even virtual Clouds burst – an issue with Amazon’s Elastic Block Store  service, an important component of Amazon’s extremely popular Elastic Compute Cloud  network caused partial outages of several popular sites on Monday evening. among the sites knocked partially or totally offline were Netflix, Reddit, Heroku, Flipboard, Imgur among others.   The outages began [...]

Apple recent  Mac update for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion released this week removes its Java plugin from all OS X browsers. Apple’s  support page provides more details : “This release updates the Apple-provided system Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_37 and is for OS X versions 10.7 or later. This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers. To use applets [...]

The UK’s Court of Appeal has upheld UK High Court’s  ruling that Samsung did not copy the iPad with its Galaxy tablet. Britain’s High Court ruled in favor of Samsung, explaining that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet, although Samsung’s products were “very, very similar”, they are simply “not as cool” as the iPad, and can therefore not be confused with Apple’s tablet. The  [...]

Google unfinished financial results for last quarter were release accidentally far ahead of schedule today on the SEC’s website Google is blaming the financial printer RR Donnelley for this screw up. Earnings were far less than analysts expected and Google shares immediately plunged as much as 10.5 percent, knocking $26 billion off its market capitalization, By the time trading was halted at 12:50pm [...]

  Apple’s joy of selling five million pieces of iPhone 5 in 3 days was soon eclipsed by ‘scuffgate‘  and other issues, prominent among them was a delay in availability, which  is because the device is hard to assemble according to a WSJ reports which quotes an ‘declined to be named’ Foxconn employee. “The iPhone 5 is the most difficult device that Foxconn has [...]

Notwithstanding , the questions about its price, Microsoft’s Surface tablets first day pre-orders for the base model are already sold out. Microsoft has confirmed it by pushing the delivery date to ‘ within 3 weeks’ on its US online store, other models are available for ‘delivery by 10/26’. The online UK store stock is still available for the initial shipping date of 10/26. [...]

Microsoft has officially announced pricing and availability for its long awaited Surface table, after maintaining almost complete silence and preventing any leaks (unlike Apple) about its Windows RT Surface tablets since first announcing them in June. The  £399  base model will give you 32GB of storage, but won’t come with a Touch Cover which doubles up as keyboard, £479 will get you a [...]