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During the October-December quarter, South Korean tech firm Samsung Electronics witnessed its quarterly operating profit touching an all-time-high of $4.7 billion (or 5.3 trillion won), largely due to the notably robust smartphone sales; and has earmarked $22 billion in spending this year for boosting the production of chips and flat screens in order to gain further dominance in the mentioned markets.

According to the gas price website called MichiganGasPrices. com, the average retail gasoline prices took a tumble in Michigan last week, with a drop of 13.8 cents a gallon.

However, despite the fall, the average retail gas price in Michigan on Sunday – after including the changes in gas prices over the past week - were 27.2 cents a gallon more than the prices on the same day a year back; and also 5.5 cents a gallon higher than the prices a month back.

According to the details shared by Microsoft on its Building Windows 8 blog, the forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will boast notable improvements over its predecessors in giving users the capability to manage their connections to Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks.

According to the information shared by the representatives of ARM-chip vendors like Nvidia, Texas Instruments (TI), and Qualcomm, tight limits have been placed by Microsoft in terms of how Windows 8 can be displayed on ARM-based tablets.

An indirect substantiation of the statement can be traced to the fact that even though a handful of prototype ARM-based tablets were showcased at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, there was no opportunity for anyone to actually try out the devices.

Hinting at the possibility of a power struggle at Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era, Adam Lashinsky has, in his "Inside Apple" book, claimed that the company's iOS chief Scott Forstall is apparently the Apple `CEO-in-waiting.'

Noting that Senior VP Forstall has his eyes on the top post at Apple, Lashinsky says in the book - precisely titled "Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired -- and Secretive -- Company Really Works" - that Forstall stands out among the Apple executive team as the most prominent Steve Jobs' successor after current CEO Tim Cook's term comes to an end.

The petition which Internet search giant Google and social network Facebook filed to challenge the trial court’s summons for indicting them for objectionable website content is scheduled for hearing today in the Delhi High Court.

It was on the basis of a complaint filed by journalist Vinay Rai – who called for action against Google, Facebook and 19 other Internet sites for posting objectionable material online – that the prosecution of executives of the companies was approved by the government on Friday.

On the basis of the stupendous growth which the social networking giant Facebook has been witnessing of late, digital marketing firm iCrossing has recently predicted that Facebook is likely to surpass the ‘1 billion users’ milestone in August this year.

In what evidently marked a big step for the Internet in the direction of the end of the .com era in domain names, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Thursday decided to open up the potential for hundreds of new suffixes - other than .com, .edu, or the other 20-odd familiar Internet suffixes – dubbed top-level domain names.

The first round of expansion of suffixes for domain names will witness ICANN, which is a nonprofit organization in charge of online registry, processing nearly 500 applications for the registration of new names.

In a move that marks domain registrar GoDaddy’s latest reiteration of its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Go Daddy's president extended an apology Thursday evening for initially supporting the proposed legislation.

With Verizon having confirmed on Thursday that it is making a $2-a-month ‘convenience’ fee addition for customers paying their bills online or over the phone, the move – which takes effect January 15, 2012 – was wildly criticized on the Web.

However, in its blurb posted in its News Center, Verizon specified that the $2 monthly fee will be applicable to subscribers who take the online or telephone route to make one-time credit or debit card payments. The carrier also said that there are several options which can be availed by the customers who wish to avoid the mentioned payment.