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A month ago TheGuardian released a story that claimed the US Postal Service had been part of a program similar to PRISM. But the claims were never officially confirmed, and so it remained a fairly obscure accusation. That is until today, when the New York Times confirmed the rumors and the existence of the program.

"Mobile buffs at TechRadar have reported that Microsoft has withdrawn their original claim that Windows Phone supported NFC."

"A hidden application found on millions of smartphones can log almost everything a user does, claims a US security researcher."

Apple's 4th generation tablet, iPad 4, or iPad with Retina Display, has been landed for a while. It's only after 7 months that Apple released this new generation of its tablet. Compared with iPad 3, or the New iPad, this upgrade seems a little bit confusing, is it necessary? The only different seems to be the enhanced A6X chip with quad-core graphics, which, as Apple claims, is twice fast as the previous generation. Wow, quad-core graphics, does this mean it will make the HD movie playing even better? Try it before any hasty conclusion is drawn. Now, it's time to do the test. Just convert your Blu-ray movie to play on iPad 4. You can use DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper, the best Blu-ray Ripper software available on the market, to do the conversion. Follow this tip below: http://www.dvdfab.com/blu-ray-ripper/Convert-Blu-ray-Title-for-iPad-4.htm?ad=hcj

Apple's next product "iWatch" is highly in talks from sources. Some reports fired it extremely including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal whereby they claim that the iPhone maker has started performing tests of prototypes of its next big product.

After a lot of rumours HTC finally announced One, their newest Android phone. Although One is right now among the hottest phones available, will this be able to stand out and claim its celebrity ?

"Nokia CEO Stephen Elop reportedly stated that multi-core mobile processors are a waste of battery life in a recent interview with a Chinese newspaper. Yangcheng Evening News quotes Elop as having said, "the so-called dual-core, quad-core mobile phones can only waste batteries, but not be useful for consumers all the time." Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system does not support multi-core chipsets, but the company has been highlighting the "real world performance" of its handsets through the "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenge. Elop went on to claim that the company's flagship Lumia 900 has never been defeated by the iPhone or an Android smartphone, despite the dual-core and quad-core processors found in those devices. "

"A Chinese web portal, NetEase, has claimed that a mini iPad is being developed by Apple to go on sale later this year to compete with Windows 8-based tablets. "

"Mobile operators O2, Vodafone and Three have slammed Everything Everywhere's 4G Britain campaign, amid claims that it has been instigated solely out of self interest."

"Steve Jobs famously vowed to spend his dying breath and all of Apple's cash to destroy Google's Android operating system. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Google CEO Larry Page said that despite Jobs's rather public hatred, "the Android differences were actually for show." Page claimed that, "For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better." The CEO shot down rumors that the two were bitter rivals, instead noting that "I had a relationship with Steve." Despite Jobs's ailing health at the time, Apple's co-founder reached out to Page for a casual talk. "He was quite sick. I took it as an honor that he wanted to spend some time with me," Page said. "I figured he wanted to spend time with his family at that point. He had a lot of interesting insights about how to run a company and that was pretty much what we discussed.""

"Android users who have a smartphone packed full of free apps could be losing up to 75% of their handset's battery life, according to a new study."

Many people have considered the recent acts by the United States government not only illegal, but also a clear example of internet censorship.

"Young consumers "fed up with iPhones" will flock to Nokia's new Windows Phone offering, according to an executive from the Finnish company."

We have already heard a lot of gossips on the Nokia Lumia 900. Some say that the Lumia 900 smartphone will be out by March 2012 while others are claiming that Nokia won't allow you acquire any unless you are eager to wait until April. But according to the fresh statement from unknown source that AT&T is planning to release the Nokia Lumia 900 in 2012.

Huawei has announced its latest handset called the Ascend P1 S, sources claims that it's the world's thinnest smartphone ever, the Inquirer reported.

Toshiba has announced that it has planned to launch latest tablet PC called the Excite A200. The company claims that it will be the world's thinnest tablet.

We have heard a lot of gossips regarding the launch of Apple's fifth-generation smartphone, might be identified as the iPhone 5, now the new report comes from Chinese source, which is claiming that the new iPhone will out in May 2012.

"Images from debugging software claimed to be running on an Apple iPad 3 prototype have been published by BGR. The pictures aren't of the device itself, but of the data collected by the development tool, and purport to show certain technical features of the forthcoming tablet."

"We already know that Siri does most of its processing server-side, and that Apple's claims of hardware as a limiting factor are tenuous at best. But new research from French developer Applidium reveals that Apple is truly full of it."

"Yes, that old chestnut the Facebook phone has reared its head again! Almost as prevalent as the 'PlayStation Phone' once was, talk of a true mobile phone with Facebook at its core has not only been around for ages, but has sort of already happened thanks to devices such as the HTC ChaCha and Salsa, the INQ Cloud series and the recently announced Orange Alcatel phones."