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Google unveils Android expansion

Plans to expand its mobile OS for new categories like wearable computers and automobiles

Apple to pay $3 billion to buy Beats Electronics

Apple unveils iOS 8, OS X at developers' meet

The new mobile system, iOS 8, adds functions like a smarter keyboard and new features for emails and text messages

Apple's profit still climbs, but pressure is growing

Apple's war on Samsung has Google in crossfire

In a lawsuit, Apple is seeking about $2 bn in damages from Samsung for selling phones and tablets that Apple says violate five of its mobile software patents; Samsung, meanwhile, says Apple violated t

Smartphones: Mine is bigger than yours

Demand for bigger-screen phones is clearly strong

Deal with China Mobile gives Apple a big market

Apple and China Mobile announced their partnership a few days after the latter introduced an upgrade to a newer, faster system - 4G - for parts of its network

Jury tells Samsung to pay Apple $290 mn

While the price tag will not significantly affect either company's pocketbooks, the ruling did give Apple another victory in the companies' continuing legal fight

Apple targets Microsoft Office with free applications

With no new iPad this year, tablet market takes a dip

Manufacturers shipped 45.1 mn tablets worldwide in the second quarter, down 9.7% from the first quarter

Fallout from Apple's loss on e-books

Apple had violated antitrust law in conspiring with publishers to raise prices of e-books

From Apple, an overhaul for mobile and the Mac

Under intense pressure from investors, it had to introduce the new software

Samsung armours Android to take on BlackBerry

BlackBerry under siege in Europe

Smartphones become life's remote control

Big companies with strong brands have been heavily promoting the new uses for these gadgets

iPhone turns 5. Here's what it wrought

Hotel's free WiFi comes with hidden extras

Your hotel's internet service could be secretly injecting lines of code on every web page to insert ads this is quite similar to a hotel delivering a newspaper to every room, except that every page has a new ad stuck on top

Android lagging behind iPhone and iPad

In flop of HP TouchPad, an object lesson for the technology sector